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christopher barnett 15 January 2013

there is one aspect of revolutionary struggle that the elites & their servant scribblers

would like to hide from the people, love, profound love.

from my earliest experiences with the viet cong, aboriginal activists, black panthers,my greek comrades, my many african & latin american brothers & sisters to the

people fighting for a just & equitable france, i have been touched by their compassion

& their lack of bitterness

when you were younger the dicton of che, that at the risk of seeming ridiculous, i

believe a revolutionary, is moved by a profound sense of love, seemed well,

ridiculous, & utopian when what you were witnessing was a slaughterhouse. as you

aged you understood deeply the political sense of that dicton & as a human it was like

a source, a well, when you were too fatigued, too tired to go on, it gave you that extra

fight. tonight, that dicton, in a little over 10 words, says all that needs to be said

people, even on the left, far from struggle, can be sanctimonious but those engaged in

the depth of battle, where there are often many losses, have taught me the meaning of

love; of sharing & perhaps not so ironically, humor

the elites mask this love because of their own bitterness & i simply ask you to read the

so called leading commentators in french english or italian & they are bitter &

cynical, almost without exception

they would like us to live in feudal times, where we don our hat, but i hope we justshow them our arses because the elites do not merit any more than that

love has left them, so too respect

for those who have taught me love in this life of struggle, for those who have stripped

me of bitterness i love you

now & forever

christopher Barnett

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