Reply to Andre Gorz

WHO was right and WHO was wrong? An irrelevant question. What was true and what was not? What, in the presuppositions and methods of both parties, made it possible to see this and what prevented that possibility? We cannot dispense with these questions unless we dispense with thinking and learning. It is not necessary to rewrite the story—especially when the story continues. For it was in 1973 at Actuel that Jean-Paul Sartre was making declarations tantamount to a prior justification of the eventual Moscow trials: “The revolution implies the violence and existence of a more radical party that imposes itself to the detriment of other, more conciliatory groups

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