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I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it.

I was involved in the anti-war movement.

I was very active in the peace movement, still am.

In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand.

The 'peace movement' exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.