So you compare a country to what it came from, with all its imperfections… and those who demand instant perfection, the day after the revolution they get up and say “are there civil liberties for the fascists?? Do they get to have their newspapers and their radio programmes? Are they gonna be able to keep all their farms?”

The passion that some of our liberals feel the day after the revolution - the passion and concern they feel for the fascists, the civil rights and civil liberties of those fascists - who were dumping and destroying and murdering people before.

My criteria is— what happens to those people that couldn’t read? What happens to those babies that couldn’t eat, that died of hunger? See that’s why I support revolution. The revolution that feeds the children gets my support.

—Michael Parenti