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...Marxists, we fight for revolutionary integrationism, for the working-class strategy of uniting the labor movement with the oppressed against their common enemies--the racist, capitalist system and its agencies--in order to put an end to the capitalist order and all its filthy inequities once and for all. Critical to this is the construction of a revolutionary vanguard party with a key component of Black leadership...
Despite awkward moments here and there, the trip worked. Even the stern People's Daily ran extraordinarily puffy coverage of Reagan day after day, and the 30-minute Chinese TV news devoted up to ten minutes a night to the capitalist leader. "We have a self-satisfied glow," said a usually stiff-necked White House adviser. "We're walking around with smiles on our faces...
When it comes to dealing with Congress, however, he would prefer to be just a clam. Right at the start, the Senate Intelligence Committee censured Casey, a lawyer and venture capitalist in private life, for failing to disclose during his confirmation hearings more than $250,000 in investment assets and nearly $500,000 in personal liabilities. Questions about his finances persist to this day: the Internal Revenue Service is scrutinizing his involvement in a tax-shelter scheme...
...bureaucracy or established in the military, have managed to resist, and even reverse, the new direction. Though China has, at last count, 1.1 billion people, its G.N.P. is less than half that of France (pop. 55 million). Above all, in its attempt to balance freedom with control, capitalist methods with Marxist assumptions, the present regime has often swung violently between extremes. After more than a century of shifts and countershifts, political twists and ideological turns, many Chinese are disenchanted and disoriented. They, together with their leaders, cannot help wondering how long the latest developments will last...
...loser, say China's leftists, is all too often idealism. Tolerance, they believe, is encouraging decadence; capitalist practices and perks, they suspect, are tempting Chinese citizens to abandon the Maoist values of struggle, self-sacrifice and subservience to party in favor of such Western vices as self-interest, elitism and cynical moral pragmatism. Last year a Shanghai newspaper printed what it took to be the inspiring story of Zhang Hua, a medical student who lost his life while trying to save a drowning peasant. More than 1,600 readers wrote to the paper, many of them indignant...