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...life of the Communist dialectician is the party line itself; he never knows when it will be changed without notice. Four months ago Ai Tze-chi was Red China's chief indoctrinator or, as he was generally called, Brainwasher No. 1. In his bimonthly magazine Hsueh Hsi, Ai laid down the party line for all & sundry. Only China's academicians escaped his venom. That was because Ai had a soft spot for them: "China's higher intellectuals, while not yet fully wholesome . . . still can be considered to contain progressive and active elements...
...Hsueh Hsi, Brainwasher Ai hurriedly ate crow: "I Bailed to grasp the problem . . . My mistaken views were the result of my failure to undertake class analysis . . ." Ai's 10,000-word apology was eloquent, but it was too late to save him from severe reprimand in the next issue of his own magazine: "Certain comrades have been imbued with strong dogmatism and party jargon . . . Many articles have been characterized by emptiness and bluffing...
Last week Hsueh Hsi suspended publication. Ai, presumably, was having his brains washed...
Last week the Communist Yangtze Daily had to eat some of its glowing words about the model residents of Hsi Shui. "Backward peasants and disgruntled Communist cadres," armed only with sticks and swords, had swept into the village land reform offices, killed the Communist boss and several of his henchmen. They were tired, the revolters shouted, of being the victims of land reform...
...next day, when they marched on the Communists' county office, the Yangtze Daily went on approvingly, they were met on a grassy hillside by well-armed Red troops. When the shooting was over, only 23 of Hsi Shui's 280 discontented farmers were still alive...