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Re: a violent revolution?

by Luis Posas

22 November 1999 19:09 UTC



> 
> If you don't succeed, by all the "first" means, and if you fail to be
> undestood because it's not the will of people would you go to violent 
>means
> to reach your goals? Would you go to a violent revolution? In the name of
> whom? Against whom? Who would you invite to join you?
> Romantic views but with very practical and understandable objectives... I
> rather work on civical projects in the long-term... with specific targets
> without using violent means. I have the patience to wait and work on
> alternative ways of living and acting. Which projects are you inolved in,
> if I can ask?

I believe that it was Ernesto "Che" Guevara who said that 
if the conditions for the struggle are not yet present, 
that we could begin to create those conditions.  Perhaps 
events later in his life, leading to his death, point at 
his vision of a true revolutionary.  



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