GERM 260 Chapter Notes -Proletarian Revolution, Tyrant, Epicureanism
24 Mar 2013
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least ve dif culties. These are formidable problems for writers living under fascism, but they exist also for those writers who have ed or been exiled; they exist even for writers working in countries where civil liberty prevails. It seems obvious that whoever writes should write the truth in the sense that he ought not to suppress or conceal truth or write something deliberately untrue. He ought not to cringe before the powerful, nor betray the weak. It is, of course, very hard not to cringe before the powerful, and it is highly advantageous to betray the weak. To displease the possessors means to become one of the dispossessed. To renounce payment for work may be the equivalent of giving up the work, and to decline fame when it is offered by the mighty may mean to decline it forever.
