I was a man who was lucky enough to have discovered a political theory, a man who was caught up in the whirlpool of Cubas political crisis…; discovering Marxism…was like finding a map in the forest. – Fidel Castro
Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity. – Walter Benjamin
I have made this [letter] longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, 1657, translated from French
