Our slogan, therefore, must be: reform of consciousness, not through dogmas, but through analysis of the mystical consciousness that is unclear about itself, whether in religion or politics. It will be evident, and then, that the world has long dreamed of something of which it only has to become conscious in order to possess it in reality. Marx 1843 (Solomon 1979: 58)

To forget is also to forgive what should not be forgiven if freedom and justice are to prevail. Such forgiveness reproduces the conditions, which reproduce injustice and enslavement: to forget past suffering is to forgive the forces that caused it - without defeating those causes. The wounds that heal in time are also wounds that contain the poison. Against this surrender to time, the restoration of remembrance to its rights as a vehicle of liberation is one of the noblest tasks of thought. Marcuse (1962: 212)

Black Consciousness

... At the heart of this kind of thinking is the realisation by the blacks that the most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. Biko (1972: 68).

What is the Good of Criticism?

...To be just, that is to say to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.... Baudelaire - Salon of 1846 (Holt 1966: 173-4)