Mar 24
You are outside the productive process. You are confined to verbal protest – and this is important. ‘In the beginning was the word.’ You should go on with your protest, but it will be effective only if it can pass from the word to the deed. You are not capable of the deed, but the young worker is – provided you move him – because he is right in the middle of the productive process that sustains the existence of society. You are effervescently active on the margin of social life, and the workers are passive right at the core of it. That is the tragedy of our society. If you do not deal with this contrast, you will be defeated.
Isaac Deutscher, "Marxism and the New Left"
