Clinton, Pete and I - s1.1 (cont'd)

"Communism started to infiltrate the government, schools and universities in the fifties to impose values such as 'don't worry, we'll take care of everything for you,'" Pete continued, “a perfect set-up for corruption, where everyone tries to secure a place for him or her self in a hierarchical bureaucracy." I didn’t react, and went to make the bed. "This led to the students' revolution in the Sixties. A cancer that started to sabotage individual freedom," he rambled, following me. "I studied Mao Tse Tung", I said, arranging the pillows. "I read Trotsky and admired Che Guevara for talking in terms of 'comradeship and equality for all', because that sounded more democratic than those who condemned my sexual explorations or artistic freedom of expression. In my mind, fascists were fierce oppressors, while communists and socialists were opening avenues of hope of shared abundance, if we worked together." "Whose 'abundance'?" Pete asked.