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Welfare Programs As Instruments Of Manipulation Ultimately Serve The End Of Conquest. They Act As An Anesthetic, Distracting The Oppressed From The True Causes Of Their Problems And From The Concrete Solutions Of These Problems.

The Multitude Is Always In The Wrong.

Some May Think That To Affirm Dialogue—the Encounter Of Women And Men In The World In Order To Transform The World—is Naively And Subjectively Idealistic. There Is Nothing, However, More Real Or Concrete Than People In The World And With The World, Than Humans With Other Humans.

Even Revolution, Which Transforms A Concrete Situation Of Oppression By Establishing The Process Of Liberation, Must Confront This Phenomenon. Many Of The Oppressed Who Directly Or Indirectly Participate In Revolution Intend - Conditioned By The Myths Of The Old Order - To Make It Their Private Revolution. The Shadow Of Their Former Oppressor Is Still Cast Over Them.

Transformation Is Only Valid If It Is Carried Out With The People, Not For Them. Liberation Is Like A Childbirth, And A Painful One. The Person Who Emerges Is A New Person: No Longer Either Oppressor Or Oppressed, But A Person In The Process Of Achieving Freedom. It Is Only The Oppressed Who, By Freeing Themselves, Can Free Their Oppressors.