“If there is one profoundly reactionary sector in Latin America, it is the leftist intellectuals. They are a people without memory. I have never heard one of them admit he made a mistake. Marxism has become an intellectual vice. It is the superstition of the entire century.” —Octavio Paz
LEFTIST LATIN AMERICA: Quote of the Week, Courtesy of Octavio Paz
“If there is one profoundly reactionary sector in Latin America, it is the leftist intellectuals. They are a people without memory. I have never heard one of them admit he made a mistake. Marxism has become an intellectual vice. It is the superstition of the entire century.”
—Octavio Paz, Quoted by Alan Riding, New York Times (May 3, 1979)
(Paz portrait from flickr.)
Posted on July 17, 2006
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