We were surrounded by entities whose reality seemed precarious but whose power of influence was enormous. “Party,” “working class,” “revisionists,” “Zionists,” “antisocialist forces,” “extremist elements,” “five-year plan,” “work stoppages,” “forces of imperialism,” “socialist renewal,” “leading role of the party,” “fraternal Parties,” “domestic export”—all these terms, and many others impossible to translate into English, were supposed to describe real facts, processes, and institutions, but were actually political declarations. It was impossible to conduct any serious debate about the real
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