I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.
I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.
Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.
I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.
My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.
My reputation was a bit exaggerated. Things were written in newspapers, then copied, then doubled. One of the reasons why I never disclaimed that, was because I found it amusing. But I also constructed such an image for myself in order to gain more of a private life.
I was involved in the anti-war movement.
In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist movement.