On an infinitely smaller and less tragic scale, the situation in the university can lead to a dilemma of the same type overnight. All the left tendencies are fighting to gain recognition of their right to carry on political activism on me campus. Hut it is quite possible that the administration will take the incidents surrounding Garaudy's visit as a pretext for banning any more political lectures. You end, of course, by wiping out the distinction between contradictions among the people and conflicts with the class enemy, treating the former more and more like the latter. Of course, it is impossible to make an absolute and total separation be between the two.
Marginal cases are possible.
We advocate frank debate in meetings of strikers. We do not think that we need restrict ourselves to polite discussion with strike breakers. Failure to distinguish between acts and opinions can only result in extinguishing workers democracy, lowering the level of consciousness and mobilization of the workers, and progressively robbing the revolutionists themselves of their ability to orient themselves politically. . . .