There, too, he informs his martyred hero, Francisco Ascaso, of the events that have transpired since the Spanish Civil War. . . . Like many of Levine's urban settings, Barcelona is depicted as a City fallen out of grace, its old town polluted and slum-ridden. Though the vision is depicted as an enduring one, its presence as natural as the heart's daily rhythms, it nevertheless remains a private hope. How Levine envisions this new world is never fully made clear, at least for any sustained number of lines. However, all his heroes diametrically oppose any system of governing that is founded upon human subjugation.
Anarchism is an extraordinarily generous, beautiful way to look at the universe.
It has to do with the end of ownership, the end of competitiveness, the end of a great deal of things that are ugly. Instead, they stubbornly strive to establish the conditions of essential goodness which society negates. Levine's other anarchist heroes - is the desire to reverse all historical movements. In prophesying the rise of something altogether new, Durruti goes beyond the fate of the mere individual to declare the salvation of the human community at large. Of all his characters, clearly the most recurring and significant are the Spanish Civil War anarchists, primarily Buenaventura Durruti and Francisco Ascaso, whose struggles against an unjust social order Levine honors, if not nobilitates, throughout his work.