Peter Weiss and Others

Peter Weiss and others have decided. They challenge us to follow their example. The example demands to be examined.

Peter Weiss and others have decided—in favor of the oppressed, and against the oppressors. Whose side do we take? Three guesses as to the right answer to this powerful question, and how we can reach a clear standpoint with the greatest certainty, can bring us most quickly to a correct position. We need only take as our example Peter Weiss and others, and abandon our passivity, our fatalism, our arrogance, our double standards, our reservations, our hedging, our caution, our doubt. We need only put ourselves at a bit of risk. We need only fight a little, side by side with a “socialist” world against a “capitalist” world. Surely that’s not asking too much. But how, really, does one actually go about doing this? How do we have to act in...