
” Indefinition was the common denominator of all these features of the life of the state… . All this indefinition could be taken as both the voice of transformative opportunity and the sign of a paralyzing confusion. At one moment it seemed that new experiments in human association might be staged here; at the next, that nothing could come out of this disheartening multitude of more or less well–intentioned, confused, unheroic crypto– leftists—middle–class, university-trained youth, filled with the vague left- ist ideas…”