These are questions for action, not speculation, which is idle.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962.

There was very little international support, even England wouldn't support [bombing of Syria], which is amazing.

The real world of American society is one which it is very misleading to call simply a democracy. Of course, it is in a sense a democracy, but it is one in which there are enormous inequities in the distribution of power and force. For example, the entire commercial and industrial system is in principle excluded from the democratic process, including everything that goes on within it

Democracy is a danger to any powerful group.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

I don't encourage socialists or anarchists to accept falsehoods, in particular, to see revolutionary potential where there is none.