I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

Well, what there ought to be is an international labor organization, a confederation of the trade unions of all the countries speaking for the workers who are competing with one another, and talking about the difference in wage levels between, say, Europe and Indonesia.

I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins.

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