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1. REVOLUTION AND COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND THE TFPs: TWENTY YEARS OF
ACTION AND COMBAT
Twenty Years After, the title of a novel by Alexandre Dumas – so appreciated by
Brazilian adolescents until the moment now long past when profound
psychological transformations destroyed the taste for that kind of literature –
is brought to mind by an association of images as we begin these notes.
We
just looked back to 1959; 1976 is almost over. Therefore, we are approaching
the end of the second decade of this book's circulation. Twenty years...
In
this period, the essay's editions have multiplied. 64
It
was not our intention to make Revolution and Counter-Revolution a mere study.
We wrote it also with the intention of making it a bedside book for about one
hundred young Brazilians who had asked us to orient and coordinate their
efforts in view of the problems and duties they faced at the time. This initial
handful - the seed of the future TFP-soon spread throughout Brazil, which is
the size of a continent. Propitious circumstances favored, pari passu,
the formation and development of analogous and autonomous organizations
throughout South America. The same occurred later in the United States, Canada,
Spain, and France. More recently, intellectual affinities and promising cordial
relations began to link this extensive family of organizations to personalities
and associations of other countries of Europe. In France, the Bureau Tradition,
Famille, Propriété, 65 founded in 1973, has been fostering the
resulting contacts and approximations as much as possible.
These
twenty years, then, were years of expansion. They were years of expansion, yes,
but years of intense counter-revolutionary struggle as well.
Considerable results have been achieved in this way. As this is not the moment
to enumerate them all, 66 we limit ourselves to saying that, in each
country where a TFP or a similar association exists, it has been continuously
combating the Revolution, that is, more particularly, so-called Catholic
leftism in the religious realm and communism in the temporal realm. In the
genuine combat against communism, we include the battle against all modes of
socialism, for these are merely preparatory stages or larval forms of
communism. This combat has always been waged according to the principles,
goals, and norms of Part II of this study. 67
The
fruits thus obtained well show the accuracy of what is said in this work on the
inseparable themes of Revolution and Counter-Revolution.
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