
“Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
From an Interview Enríquez held shortly after the military coup of September 11, 1973 that ended the democratically elected Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende
“Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.”
Act I.
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Those who make revolutions by halves do nothing but dig their own tombs.”
(January 1793) [Source: Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just, vol. 1 (2 vols., Paris, 1908), p. 414]
Answer to the question: "In your opinion does the downfall of the left cancel for a long period the struggle for socialism in Chile?"
Source: Reform or Revolution (1899), Ch. 8
Quote of Marini, 1972; as cited in 'Sculptures: Horsemen', on the website of the Marini Museum http://museomarinomarini.it/sculptures/?lang=en
"He who had dug his own grave", from To Abel and Cain, commemorating his escape from the Nazis by his 1943 killing of an SS guard who had been assigned to watch as he dug his own grave, as quoted in "10 Amazing Ways People Survived The Holocaust" by Alan Boyle at Listverse (9 November 2014) http://listverse.com/2014/11/09/10-amazing-ways-people-survived-the-holocaust/
Answer that Enriquez gave a press conference in October, 1973 when asked: "Accordance to your judgment: Why did the Popular Unity government collapse?"
Our situation has deteriorated so dramatically that we must choose between revolution or ecological collapse, mass extinction, and possibly our own demise. The twenty-first century is a time of reckoning.
Conclusion: "Reflections on Activism and Hope in a Dying World and Suicidal Culture" (p. 162)
The Politics of Total Liberation: Revolution for the 21st Century (2014)
“Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.”