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born 1945 France

Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (born 4 April 1945) is a French-German politician. He was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France and was also known during that time as Dany le Rouge (French for "Danny the Red", because of both his politics and the colour of his hair).

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What is the future? We cannot produce a blueprint, the future alone can evolve that. What we must agree on, rather are the general principles of the society we want to create.

Obsolete Communism:The Left Wing Alternative (1968)

On reading Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution we are struck by a fundamental contradiction: as an honest historian he shows us just how much the Party lagged behind the masses, and as a Bolshevik theorist he must reaffirm that the Party was necessary for the succession of the revolution.

Obsolete Communism:The Left Wing Alternative (1968)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Daniel Cohn-Bendit (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.