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...Free University and the "Red" French universities of Nanterre and Vincennes but also at Catholic institutions like Belgium's Louvain or Nijmegen in Holland. Publishers have found a vigorous market for works by and about a variety of Marxists: not only such dogmatic mainstream interpreters as Lenin and Mao, but a host of differing theoreticians, ranging from Leon Trotsky to former Czechoslovak Communist Party Leader Alexander Dubcek, who was toppled in 1968 for championing a liberalized Marxism. But "when in ideological trouble," says Manfred Gotthard, a West Berlin student, "we turn to Marx. The answer is always there...
...fact, the radical superstars of the 1960s are passé, along with their Marxist models: Castro, Che and increasingly, Mao Tse-tung. The new radicals, says Parisian Journalist Robert Pledge, who was a student activist in 1968, "have abandoned the idea of the political hero." Instead, they are promoting a more pragmatic, down-to-earth "Marxism with a human face...
...Chinese, however, are presently also concerned with a possible domestic power struggle, Salisbury said. Chairman Mao Tse Tung and most of the other top Chinese rulers are extremely old, he explained, and will be creating vacancies in the near future that will throw governmental rule up for grabs...
Salisbury, who visited China last year, said Mao and President Nixon are moving towards a Sino-American detente primarily to put a lid on the arms race. "China is the number three nuclear power in the world, and agreements between the U.S. and Russia are useless without including China," he said...
United States diplomats will not be the only ones to bring discolored perceptions to the new U.S.-China relationship. One motivating factor in China's strategy will probably be a continued preoccupation with internal political affairs. In particular, former Vice Chairman Lin Piao, although named Mao's successor by the 1969 congress of the Chinese Communist Party, is now accused of betraying his country, evidently to the Soviets. Of all of Mao's opponents in the Communist Party, Lin appears to be the first to have been labelled "traitor" to the nation...