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...requirements of his thoughts and of his heart?" asked Garaudy. "Not at all. If the greatness of religion proves itself in the exigency of answering these questions, the weakness is in pretending to answer them in a way that carries the stigma of insufficiency. The protest of atheism has, for this reason, a cathartic value...
...Walter Hollitscher of East Berlin's Humboldt University, is that today both are subject to the same forces of history, such as the technological revolution. Lucio Lombardo of the University of Rome suggested that Marxism must grow to include the concept of pluralism. Garaudy proposed that the atheism of Marx was a response to the historic face of religion of his time; in the light of a developing social concern on the part of Christians, Communism might have to re-evaluate its traditional attitude toward religion. After all, as Marx himself admitted, Communism is the "profane realization...
...arguing with people on his deathbed." Educated in French medical schools, Frantz Fanon was assigned to an Algerian hospital in 1952. He quickly identified himself with the Algerian rebels, whose leaders were deeply influenced by Fanon's thinking on racism, colonialism and war, though shocked by his atheism. It was in his psychiatric work at Blida hospital-now renamed for him-that Fanon gained his insights into the minds of colonized peoples. The book closes with a dozen case studies of mental disorders resulting from the war. Fanon is something of a case study himself...
...full and accurate account of the movement, its goals and tactics, might not endear Dr. King to the average white southerner, but such an account would begin to erode some of the more outlandish and dangerous tenets of racism; for instance, that the movement is riddled with communism, atheism and pansexuality...
Hungary has produced perhaps the most interesting sign of change. Last month, in the party journal Tarsadalmi Szemle (Social Review), Red Theoretician Josef Lukacs, editor of an atheist magazine, argued that "we do not get very far with the old-type atheism and anticlerical ism which tried to fight against religion in an abstract manner," and that Communism should cooperate with "well-intentioned religious people" in achieving common social goals...