One Makes War To Win, Not Because

An American Professor Complained That A Crypto-marxist Like Me Was Invited In The Usa, And I Was Denounced By The Press In Eastern European Countries For Being An Accomplice Of The Dissidents. None Of These Descriptions Is Important By Itself; Taken Together, On The Other Hand, They Mean Something. And I Must Admit That I Rather Like What They Mean.

Do Not Use Thought To Ground A Political Practice In Truth; Nor Political Action To Discredit, As Mere Speculation, A Line Of Thought. Use Political Practice As An Intensifier Of Thought, And Analysis As A Multiplier Of The Forms And Domains For The Intervention Of Political Action.

Resistances Do Not Derive From A Few Heterogeneous Principles; But Neither Are They A Lure Or A Promise That Is Of Necessity Betrayed. They Are The Odd Term In Relations Of Power; They Are Inscribed In The Latter As An Irreducible Opposite.

I Believe That Political Power Exercises Itself Through The Mediation Of A Certain Number Of Institutions Which Look As If They Have Nothing In Common With The Political Power, And As If They Are Independent Of It, While They Are Not.

Education May Well Be, As Of Right, The Instrument Whereby Every Individual, In A Society Like Our Own, Can Gain Access To Any Kind Of Discourse. But We Well Know That In Its Distribution, In What It Permits And In What It Prevents, It Follows The Well-trodden Battle-lines Of Social Conflict. Every Educational System Is A Political Means Of Maintaining Or Of Modifying The Appropriation Of Discourse, With The Knowledge And The Powers It Carries With It.