But I said, I'm not there to be a transmission belt between the popular mass movements and the party. The educational process in the settlements, taking radical actions, engaging in radical thinking-these are the issues that interest me when I think of changing society. Many of the political parties say we shouldn't discuss these things now because the important thing is the elections. First let's win the elections, they say, then we'll discuss the problems of women and the landless. I don't believe in this.
Elections change so little.
We cannot wait. It's just like during the Spanish Civil War, when the masses wanted to change production relations right away but the parties told them to wait. You can't teach someone to be revolutionary. You can have socialist ideas but if you don't change your process you can become as authoritarian as the others. In the educational work we study Marx, Lenin, Gramsci, Che, Luxemburg and others.