I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?

I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in opposition to try to work within what are always arduous circumstances to stretch the limits of the possible.

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.