Prologue

We are living in a world of mass media which daily exposes society's innate hypocrisy, its 

contradictions and the apparent failure of almost every facet of our social and political 

life.
"Why am I here?" The young react to their chaotic world in different ways. Some panic and 

run, rationalizing that the system is going to collapse anyway of its own rot and corruption 

and so they're copping out, going hippie or yippie, taking drugs, trying communes, anything 

to escape. Others went for pointless sure-loser confrontations so that they could fortify 

their rationalization and say, "Well, we tried and did our part" and then they copped out 

too. Others sick with guilt and not knowing where to turn or what to do went berserk. There 

are young radicals who are committed to the fight, committed to life.
We will start with the system because there is no other place to start from except political 

lunacy. It is most important for those of us who want revolutionary change to understand 

that revolution must be preceded by reformation. Men don't like to step abruptly out of the 

security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own experience to a 

new way
A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny
A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with 

past ways and values. They don't know what will work but they do know that the prevailing 

system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won't act for change but won't 

strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution.
Action comes from keeping the heat on
The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people