The Abolition Of The Class Struggle Does

History Is At Once Freedom And Necessity.

I Would Like You To Understand Completely, Also Emotionally, That I'm A Political Detainee And Will Be A Political Prisoner, That I Have Nothing Now Or In The Future To Be Ashamed Of In This Situation. That, At Bottom, I Myself Have In A Certain Sense Asked For This Detention And This Sentence, Because I've Always Refused To Change My Opinion, For Which I Would Be Willing To Give My Life And Not Just Remain In Prison. That Therefore I Can Only Be Tranquil And Content With Myself.

The People Themselves Are Not A Homogeneous Cultural Collectivity But Present Numerous And Variously Combined Cultural Stratifications Which, In Their Pure Form, Cannot Always Be Identified Within Specific Historical Popular Collectivities.

How Many Times Have I Wondered If It Is Really Possible To Forge Links With A Mass Of People When One Has Never Had Strong Feelings For Anyone, Not Even One's Own Parents: If It Is Possible To Have A Collectivity When One Has Not Been Deeply Loved Oneself By Individual Human Creatures. Hasn't This Had Some Effect On My Life As A Militant--has It Not Tended To Make Me Sterile And Reduce My Quality As A Revolutionary By Making Everything A Matter Of Pure Intellect, Of Pure Mathematical Calculation?

Economy And Ideology. The Claim (presented As An Essential Postulate Of Historical Materialism) That Every Fluctuation Of Politics And Ideology Can Be Presented And Expounded As An Immediate Expression Of The Structure, Must Be Contested In Theory As Primitive Infantilism, And Combated In Practice With The Authentic Testimony Of Marx, The Author Of Concrete Political And Historical Works.