I was a revolutionary long before RC came along. I knew about the good works of Lenin, Marx, Mao, and the Paris Commune. Then something happened. I accidentally discovered RC, and I found that the people around me, who were very frustrated and unhappy in their lives, if they would take turns listening to each other, would spontaneously start crying and laughing and shaking and yawning, and although on the surface they seemed very much the same (this didn’t remove the bumps from their noses or anything like that), they were happier. They treated their children better. They treated each other better. They were slow but willing to learn more.


I remember a time when I had to decide if I should try to get back into revolutionary activity and fight the bad ideas I could see creeping into all the revolutionary parties, or if I should stick to this new development that I was beginning to call RC and see how important it would turn out to be. 


I decided, well, there are a lot of people who are supposed to be pursuing revolutionary policies, but nobody’s bothering with RC except me. So I decided to stick with RC. I had no idea at that time that RC and the people who would gather around me doing RC would turn out to be the most important revolutionary movement that has ever come along.