A tall, elegant man in his fourties stands up and walks to the stage. He promptly shakes hands with each professor, some of whom seem to vaguely recognise him. As he grabs one of the microphones, a low-pitched quick connection sound can be heard, followed by a timid hail of applause.
"Good day, and thank you for your kindness, my dear friends, comrades... And colleagues too, because, and let me introduce myself through these preliminary words, I am Louis-Laz... Hmmm... Lazare Donnier, a former literature professor at the UNNP, the New Paris Nanterre University. But perhaps I am more renown today as a terrorist leader, sentenced to death in absentia for spearheading a terrorist organisation called Ligue d'action révolutionnaire."
He smiles and carries on, satisfied with the effect he might just have produced on the audience.
"I hope the days we are going to live through, my friends, will be remembered in history. And not only Gallic history. Seizing power, means of production and bourgeois property in the house we were born in can only be a step towards a whole Sirius-wide revolution.
Anticapitalist thinkers, anti-State intellectuals, scientific materialism philosophers, et j'en passe, all of those names I am sure you know by heart, all have thoroughly drawn this path throughout the last millenium: rising in only one nation is no more than a petty uproar doomed to inevitable failure.
Socialism, as a generic notion, is really simple to understand. There are simple rules to apply. Simple boxes to tick. Simple horizons to reach. And never deviate from the mathematically logic plan. Here is what I offer you to do today. Refresh our knowledge, adapt it to our current situation and precisely define the means we are going to need in this fight.
Thank you very much."
Donnier puts the microphone on the table in front of him, sits in one of rhe empty chairs and starts making acquaintance with the professor on his left.
