
Question, Léger once called you a realist. How do you feel about this?
1950s - 1960s, interview with Alexander Calder', (1962)
Source: Eona: The Last Dragoneye
Question, Léger once called you a realist. How do you feel about this?
1950s - 1960s, interview with Alexander Calder', (1962)
interview with Joan Gordon
Context: Although we revolutionary socialists are always accused of being Utopian, nothing strikes me as more Utopian than the reformist belief that with a bit of tinkering and some good faith, we can systematically improve the world. You have to ask how many decades of broken promises and failed schemes it will take to disprove that hope. Marxism isn’t about saying you’ll get a perfect world: it’s about saying we can get a better world than this one, and it’s hard to imagine, no matter how many mistakes we make, that it could be much worse than the mass starvation, war, oppression, and exploitation we have now. In a world where 30,000 to 40,000 children die of malnutrition daily while grain ships are designed to dump food into the sea if the price dips too low, it’s worth the risk.
Section 2.2
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Trialogue #24: The Heavens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWqvY7CGaHw Esalen, California (1992)
Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra (2008)
“There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.”
“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?”
“I can imagine few worse fates than walking around for the rest of one's life wearing a typo.”
Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader