First fulfill your academic obligations and then you will have the right to call yourself a leader of the left.

There can be leftist groups that have not matured politically.

The Popular Unity government represented the first attempt anywhere to build a genuinely democratic transition to socialism - a socialism that, owing to its origins, might be guided not by authoritarian bureaucracy, but by democratic self-rule.

Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

If the U.S. is going to defend itself, why shouldn't we do the same? We only want to be treated equally, nothing more.

I have often said that it doesn't matter to me if a student tells me he is a leader of the left, unless he is a good student. We need good students.

It's much harder to bring about socialism through legal means, because there are so many possibilities for opposition.