The well dressed revolutionary Quotes

“In France, Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort and Jean-François Lyotard left to form Socialisme ou Barbarie, which soon had an energetic presence in Britain as well. SouB, as it was known, envisaged the totalitarian bureaucratic society as a universal threat very much in the same way as Orwell did in 1984.”
― Hall Greenland, The well dressed revolutionary: The Odyssey of Michel Pablo in the age of uprisings

“She was soon to renounce any association with the Fourth International when they persisted in calling the Soviet Union a ‘degenerated workers state’ and its Eastern European satellites ‘deformed workers states’. At the end of his life Pablo would acknowledge that Sedova was right long before he came to share her view, although he rather undercut the acknowledgement by putting it down – in a throwaway remark, admittedly – to ‘women’s intuition’.”
― Hall Greenland, The well dressed revolutionary: The Odyssey of Michel Pablo in the age of uprisings