:59:03
Political activity?
:59:06
No, not in the usual sense.
:59:10
For years,
I voted communist as a reflex.
:59:15
But I was never
a member of the party.
:59:18
Meetings for the Rosenbergs,
:59:21
demonstrations during
the Algerian War,
:59:24
May Day, Spain...
:59:29
Then there was May '68
and Czechoslovakia.
:59:34
It got to be too much,
and I couldn't do it anymore.
:59:41
Now?
:59:44
Now things are more clear-cut,
but more complicated too.
:59:51
Leftists? Yes, I know lots of them.
:59:54
In their eyes, I'm a democrat.
:59:57
They call me sometimes.
It doesn't much help.
1:00:03
I find the idea of reeducation
for intellectuals a little disturbing.
1:00:10
Maybe the people I know
just don't explain it well.
1:00:14
Anyway, most people I know
1:00:18
went back to their status quo,
1:00:21
in particular
in the Communist Party.
1:00:27
The hostage-taking?
1:00:29
You mean at the factory
where I went with Susan?
1:00:34
To tell you the truth,
I didn't know how to react.
1:00:38
It was like someone gave me
a role to play,
1:00:41
and I kept forgetting my lines.
1:00:47
I went there to see a factory
three years after May
1:00:50
and listen to some
hotshot manager go on and on.
1:00:55
I got what I asked for.
1:00:59
I'm sorry, but I have to
get back to it. Bye.