Emma Lockwood was nineteen, a student at art college and subscribed with all her youthful enthusiasm to radical politics. She abominated her father's political views and sought to protest against them by her own lifestyle. To her parents' tolerant exasperation she was never missing from anti-nuclear protest. One of her areas of personal protest was to sleep with Simon Devine, a lecturer at a polytechnic college, whom she had met on a demo. …
… Devine was a member of a number of revolutionary study groups and contributed articles to Hard Left publications of great passion and small circulation. …
… He was no great lover, but impressed her by his firebrand Trotskyism and pathological hatred of the "bourgeoisie" which appeared to include anyone who did not agree with him. Those able to disagree more effectively than the bourgeoisie were termed Fascists.
Behind the Façades in France: What expats and the mainstream media (French and American alike) fail to notice (or fail to tell you) about French attitudes, principles, values, and official positions…