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Because of an old wound, Terrorist Lo cannot smile, but only grimace, and he speaks through clenched teeth out of the corner of his mouth. A chain smoker, heavy drinker and woman chaser, Lo has made a unique contribution to Marxist dialectics: he invented "the deviation of boundless magnanimity" (i.e., being too soft on counter-revolutionaries), a deviation which had to be "discovered and resolutely corrected." Though now a full general and recently decorated, Lo still lacks high party rating (he is one of 27 alternates of the Central Committee), and Mao still keeps much of the secret political...
...report, Lo boasted that forced labor, among other things, had produced 2 billion bricks, 770 million construction tiles, 714,000 dozen pairs of socks, and 1,700,000 steam-radiator couplers. His chilling reference to the financial aspect was a classic in Marxist accountancy: "The income from production of labor service for reform during the past four years, after deducting the living costs of the criminals and the other necessary expenses incurred in the work of reform through labor, has been accumulated, in the forms of fixed capital and fluid capital, to an amount approximately equal to the expenses...
...Marxist literary critic named J. G. Quiggin and a liberal named Mark Members, two broke and brilliant university men who symbolize the United Front. They contend for the job as secretary to a rich, vain novelist of inflated reputation. Quiggin, the Marxist, wins, and triumphantly trundles the senile genius in his wheelchair at the head of a workers' demonstration in Hyde Park...
...Committee, considered the new doctrine "an innovation," but emphasized that the Soviets are presently interested in relaxing tensions to combat spiralling inflationary tendencies within the USSR. He added that Marxism was today merely an empty shell within which the Russians develop opportunist policies, and that Khrushchev had definitely refuted Marxist doctrines in several portions of his speech...
...China has cast off all pretense that it sets much value on extending universal education or preserving the country's cultural heritage. Ancient operas have been rewritten along Marxist lines; the nation's scholars are being silenced. The government's main objective now is to turn out 60,000 to 70,000 technical specialists a year. "China's intellectuals," reports French Correspondent Robert Guillian of Le Monde, just returned from China, "are frightened and subservient, half scared out of their wits. They are men in a deep malaise...