"Oh, nothing so binary. He’s concerned at the lack of critique among the proles. He doesn’t say proles, of course, but that’s what he means: the lumpen proletariat, bane of revolutionists. They are just not interested in what he thinks they should be. I can’t tell you how much that offends him—and for some reason which has to do with a rather tendentious reading of Erich Fromm, he thinks the way to deal with that inattention is to blow it up—semiotically, I hasten to add. Therefore: alarm and affray, as you see—though evidently somewhat less of both than he got this time. And to be honest, even I have to acknowledge that he’s not an idiot. It’s remarkably hard to do what he did."