There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

I have never considered myself an economist.

The inflow of capital from the developed countries is the prerequisite for the establishment of economic dependence. This inflow takes various forms: loans granted on onerous terms; investments that place a given country in the power of the investors; almost total technological subordination of the dependent country to the developed country; control of a country's foreign trade by the big international monopolies; and in extreme cases, the use of force as an economic weapon in support of the other forms of exploitation.

In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel.

This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.