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Liang Shan stands as a salient example of the gap between the Chinese and the American man Like a Maoist Job, he suffers repeated indignities and hardships without losing faith. He is not a Western man with democratic ideals on whom communism has been forced Rather, he has a selfless devotion to the state personified by Mao. In this unusually impartial view of life in modern China, Liang Heng successfully expresses the strength of the communist faith as it conflicts with filial loyalty, romance love and urge for a better like. Unlike foreign visitors or disillusioned exiles, Liang Heng...
SAKHAROV WAS REMARKABLE, although not unique, in being able to formulate a coherent worldview that differed sharply from communism after being immersed in the Soviet system all his life. He came to believe that a pluralistic society based on human rights was the only system which would yield the ends he desired, and that Soviet communist society could not. "Communist ideology is not a complete fraud," he writes. "It arose from a striving for truth and justice, like other religious, ethical and philosophical systems. But the totalitarian structure of the government, he adds, has led the nation to "the deepest...
...cases are pending in the Holyoke Center file. One such Harvard appeal is a poem sent to the University to publish "because it has been censored everywhere else." Another is from a prisoner who would like Harvard to take up his appeal for "a victim of an act of Communism or Marxian Socialism." However, the latter appellant gives Harvard another option: "If you have no interest in this matter then please send me the address of the New York Times. Thank...
...left or the right. In the early thirties he was one of the first to attack the Marxist positions fashionable among writers and critics. An early objector to the House Un-American Activities Committee, he drew McCarthy's public condemnation, though he never actually had to testify. He detested Communism as "rotten with the diseases from which all established police state suffer," but thought it should be combatted not through the reactionary defensiveness of the Eisenhower Administration, but by offering something better than communism to the rest of the world...
...official statements, leaked documents and new Pentagon programs suggested that the Administration took more seriously than any of its predecessors the feasibility of a "limited, protracted" nuclear war. The West Europeans feared that their countries might be the battlefield. Finally, Reagan's enthusiasm for a worldwide crusade against Soviet Communism, voiced during a trip to Europe last summer, could hardly have been less in tune with the growing nostalgia there for détente