tachar
A los otros los tachaban de listos, de que trabajaban duro, de que eran buenos. | People said the others were smart, they said they were hard workers, they said that they were good. |
Por eso los tachaban de no querer dialogar, dialogar es hacerle caso a ellos, a los poderosos, eso es lo que ellos llaman dialogar. | So it was said that they didn't want to dialogue. To dialogue is to obey the powerful, that's what they call dialogue. |
Eran viejos organizadores sindicales, envejecidos en la acción minimalista y contingente de la vida sindical, supersticiosamente respetuosos de la fuerza de la burguesía, desprovistos de capacidad y de voluntad para colaborar solidariamente con los maximalistas, a quienes tachaban de jóvenes, inexpertos, de extremistas. | They were old union organizers, grown old in the minimalist and contingent action of union life, superstitiously respectful of the bourgeoisie's strength, deprived of the capacity and will to solidariously collaborate with the maximalists, whom they dismissed as young, inexperienced, and extremist. |
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