"To anyone who does not have a nodding acquaintance to Marxism-Leninism,
what is confusing about the regime in Ethiopia is the contradictions in
the regime's talk of socialism while it kills communists; in its
declaration of 'unrestricted democratic rights to the broad masses'
while it massacres workers who staged peaceful demonstration using their
declared 'rights,' in its declaration of land reform while depriving
the peasants to defend themselves from counter-revolutionary landlords,
and so on. The latest act in this historical drama of self-contradictory
double talk is the latest proclamation to disarm the people with the
bluff of 'arming the people' at the same time." —
Abyot, Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Party Foreign Section, March 1977
