Chris Aronson Beck

But we are fighters and we know how to learn from the errors, delusions, and defeats which the struggle inevitably brings with it, We are Marxist-Leninists and we know that "to fight, to be defeated, to fight again, to be defeated again, to fight anew until the final victory" is the law of history (Red Brigades)
There has been a completely mistaken evaluation of the relations of force existing between proletariat and bourgeoisie, that ist of the phase of struggle we are going through which is certainly a phase of proletarian offensive but definitely not a phase of military struggle.
Here our political analysis is clearly different from that of those who have advanced the above view.
We hold that the phase the class struggle is going through today is that of the conquest of the instruments of organization and the accumulation of the revolutionary forces capable of sustaining the conflict ; preparing the offensive in the face of the growth of a reactionary movement consciously aiming at an armed counter-revolution.
We hold that we are in a period of transition from a spontaneous, mass, even though violent, response, to an organized attack, which chooses its own pace, calculates its intensity, decides the terrain, and imposes its own power (Red Brigades, April 1971)… (més)