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...fast, the schools have become institutionalized. No longer does a suspect cadre get sent to one for an indeterminate stay to learn to serve the people. The tensions, as well as the physical abuses that Mao himself lamented, have also ebbed. Today, May Seventh schools combine aspects of a Marxist religious retreat and a voluntary labor camp...
Some party cadres come to the school because it has been suggested in their group sessions at home that they can do with a little ideological honing. Others apply simply because they want to. "I think my Marxist-Leninist level is quite low," explains Chao Kuei-wu, 46. "I need more practice in the fields to do more labor." Chao, who is married and has four children, receives his regular $35-a-month salary as the manager of a Peking canteen while attending the May Seventh school. He goes home once a month for four days to visit his family...
...revolutionaries had other demands as well. They wanted their Marxist-lining manifesto published on the front pages of leading dailies throughout Mexico. They specified a time for Cuba's representative in Mexico to appear on national television and report the safe arrival in Havana of the 30 compañeros. They also warned that there was to be no army or police mobilization in the Guadalajara area while negotiations were going...
...also has been unable to hire a dean of the college. Last spring the job was offered to Peter Conn, an associate dean at the University of Pennsylvania. He declined after being held captive in the College Inn for several hours by dissident students who preferred another candidate, Black Marxist Economist Kenneth Mills of Yale...
...Marxist renaissance defies current European realities at several points. One is the spiritual drabness of life in East bloc nations, where Communist dogmatism simply will not tolerate what one Polish theoretician dismisses as "Marxist dead talk." By and large, students in Poland and Hungary are baffled by the enthusiasm of their counterparts in the West for Marxism. In fact, to some young East Europeans Marx and Lenin are not exactly household words. Asked to identify them, a girl in Belgrade pondered for a moment and then guessed: "Two brothers...