CORRESPONDENCE
CORRESPONDENCE Nestor Paz Springfield, 111. To the Editors: Another line of interpretation of the Nestor Paz journal (review by Alexander W. Wilde, September 12) might be entertained. From...
...New Brunswick, N.J...
...Is Nestor Paz something other than another elite youth who has joined the long list of dead guerrillas in almost every nation in Latin America...
...But the situation of these kinds of actions is amenable to analysis...
...For example, if social structures and ruling groups are as perverse as radicals claim-and the evidence seems to support this position-then one could argue that revolutionary violence, no matter how successful, cannot be the answer...
...Both perceptively noted an enervating sickness that afflicts the worshiping com-(Continued on page 573...
...Thus, the contents of the missing three pages of Paz's diary- presumably containing his critique of the guerrilla adventure-become the crucial element...
...To the Editors: Both articles on the liturgy in the August 15th Commonweal roused interest and reflection...
...Prof, of Political Studies Sangamon State University Why Liturgy at All...
...If the former is more accurate, he is simply another case history...
...if the latter, his personal witness is unintelligible...
...From internal evidence, one could conclude that Paz was either seeking death or, in the words of Wilde, the recipient of "a gift of grace...
...For those of us who are not mystics or revolutionaries, this means careful and painstaking analysis...
...LEE HOINACKI Assoc...
...In order to answer this question, we must focus more directly on the central issue that runs through all these many tragic experiences: the contemporary possibilities of social change in quite specific historical settings...
Vol. 102 • November 1975 • No. 18
