Quotes 102 and 103

You've always had enough to eat and you've always been able to buy the books you needed. You've come to us out of a love of justice. You want a communism that is pure, noble, and perfect. But all these people, who may well become the victims of Franco's shells, have never had enough to eat and have never been able to buy a book. They are not perfect and therefore the party cannot be perfect. -from The Disinherited by Michel Del Castillo

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A person doesn't become a revolutionary, Santiago: he is born one. For these men going out to defend the Revolution is not something outside themselves. It is part of their very being. As thought is part of yours. That is why you can judge dispassionately and even condemn their struggle: it is not really a part of you. Intellectuals are never true revolutionaries. They believe that a certain correspondence of ideas, a certain vision of the world is at stake. But, in fact, the basic thing at stake is property. It is as simple as that. There are just two camps: those who have and those who have not. -from The Disinherited by Michel Del Castillo