Extracts from a book to be published by Gallimard soon.
1 Dying Capitalism 5. ADS: Democratic and Socialist The ruling class has been decisively Action. A middle-class liberal group, transformed. For a long time now it 2. FPLN: Patriotic Front for headed by Mario Soares who has has ceased to be identified with the now been eviled to African island of nominal owners of the means of groups, set up in 1962, Sao Tomé. No mass support; con- production. Even in his own time sists of lawyers and other intellec- Marx was able to perceive the imminent arrival of a new classthe industrial bureaucracy. 6. Left Catholics: The Church in This class in no way resolves the Portugal never occupied position it fundamental contradiction of bourbeois-capitalist society. Quite tion in Portugal very anti-clericalist. the reverse. This contradiction is But Cardinal Cerenieira. head of becoming more acute and is leading Church, student crony of Salazar's. bourgeois society into its final phase.
Within this "class" all the functions Gomes, exiled in Lourdes since 1961 of Capital are "socialised" - - spread for opposition to regime. In January out among specific groups and 1962 a group of Catholic army institutions. officers seized barracks at Beja, but crushed. Group of intellectuals in Pragma group, inspired by changes 2 A Revolutionary Breach in Vatican, banned by a regime 1967. Militant Angolan priests kept But. if one element of the disinherited in exile in Portugal. casts off the yolk of the financial interests", it breaks up this network 7. Workers: Strongest in Barreiro. of needs and aspirations directed Lisbon proletarian area on south towards the ruling class, and the bank of Taio river. Hundreds of entire system is put into question, thousands working illegally abroad. from top to bottom. Marcuse has especially in France. Strikes illegal. written that "the breach opened in but frequent. Mostly PCP. the uneasy conscience can become 8. Students: Of three universities, the pressure point for emancipation"
It is precisely this breach in the comparable to Spanish uneasy conscience which we have begun to open up.
Our work in politics puts in question the administration and control of people-by our gestures of provocation, and by our mass actions. non-organised kind. The strength of It is not necessary to make a fetish the anti-authoritarian movement out of the fact that we have cor- comes from the fact that its members rectly, considering the historical authentically express in their pracconditions, limited our actions to the tical and critical activities the hopes, sphere of the university. A revolu- and the needs, of everyone. The tionary dialectic of correct transitions streets of the cities are ours. must think of the "long march The left, far too often, succumbs to through the institutions" as a the tendency to build the "proletapractical and critical activity that riat" or the "masses" up into a metareaches into all the areas of social physical absolute, instead of grasping life in order to deepen in a subversive the concrețe, if difficult, dialectic of and critical manner the contradic- the awakening of the masses, and tions inherent in all institutions that understanding the temporary separamake up the organisation of the tion of the small but politically everyday life of our society. For our conscious extremists groups from the movement, which has arrived at its great mass of the people, period of cultural revolution, there The other danger we de not always no longer exists a privileged area in manage to aveid is intellectual which to express exclusively its over- arrogance, and in the last analysis all aspirations. fear of the creative faculties of the It is precisely this point which is the masses when they do awaken. strength and at the same time the We must yo bevond the old concepts weakness of the dying capitalist of socialism, but a new concept can system. It leaves no section of society only arise in political struggle. Today out of its network of repression, and it is not an abstract theory of history all human activities end up being that unites us. It is existential disgust contained within a structured frame- with a society which, lost in endless work which is held together by the chatter, about liberty at the same *silent pressures of capital and its time represses by methods as violent profits". as they are subtle the hopes and immediate needs of the individual and the social and economic 3 The Anti-Authoritarian emancipation of the people in their Movement Lukewarm opposition has been succeeded by spontaneous resistance although still very often of a totally (This has been considerably abridged)
13.6 THE BLACK DWARF cither — these helpless parrots whi have "moronization"