Word: antisocialists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raised the case of several prominent party members who were expelled after the student demonstrations for allegedly espousing antisocialist ideas...
...called. They have not forgotten how Mao first lured scholars into exposing their views--"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend"--and then purged those who opposed his policies. One victim of the 1956 campaign was Writer Wang Meng, whom Mao purged as an "antisocialist" and sent into internal exile for 24 years. Deng's new Minister of Culture: none other than Wang Meng, who was appointed last month...
...indulged in some frank selfcriticism. "Serious problems" exist, admitted the release that announced the purge. "Some party members have a vague and confused idea about the basic principles and superiority of the socialist system and about the bright Communist future . . . some turn a blind eye to anti-Marxist and antisocialist ideas." Even today, continued the anonymous critic, "some party members . .. openly violate regulations and discipline, sabotage state plans, vio late state economic policies and illegally retain taxes and profits...
...half-truths." It was a clear reference to John Paul's homily in Czestochowa, in which he cited examples of heroic self-sacrifice from Poland's 1,000-year history. Foreign Minister Stefan Olszowski blamed "Western countries and their media" for turning the papal visit into an "antisocialist demonstration." Equally blunt criticism came from Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban, who hinted that "relations between church and state" might be damaged by the Pope's visit. Said he: "We did not rent him the country for a week...
...afford them. The Warsaw daily Zycie Warszawy attacked the Roman Catholic community on a different front, claiming that it was "morally ambiguous" for the church to call for a general amnesty while giving aid to Solidarity's underground. Even Jaruzelski entered the fray, assailing "certain clergymen who espouse antisocialist activities and attitudes...