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Manifestations of openly political opposition by students and young intellectuals have occurred at times within communist societies. The first incidents of an overt political nature came in the troublesome years of 1956, when the latent alienation from, or hostility to, the new communist regimes in Eastern Europe first broke out into the open. In the years since 1956 one has seen in Eastern Europe student-led riots, demonstrations, parades, meetings, discussion critical of the regime within the classroom, and, from East Germany at least, flight out of the country...
...most recent overt demonstrations of student political views have taken place in Poland. Demonstrations were organized in Warsaw University in the spring of 1964 in support of the thirty-four Polish intellectuals who had written an open letter to the Polish Prime Minister, Josef Cyrankiewicz, demanding a more open cultural policy. In October 1966, fourteenS...
...interpretation that might be drawn from these results is that students who used the Psychiatric Service were less willing to be conformists in social situations, less willing to be deferent in their relationships with others, and felt a stronger pressure to give vent to their impulse in overt behavior...
France, and is the only one of the author's subjects who believes that solutions are possible. He feels that "the United States should be in overt control here. Americans shouldn't worry about world opinion. The peasants would be glad to have Americans running their districts." At the same time, he opposes negotiations with North Viet Nam. "We have to go on with the war and win it . . . If we accept peace under Communist rule, many thousands of people in South Viet Nam will be sentenced to death by Communist people's tribunals, as they were...
...what do the Communists at Harvard do? With only a "handful" of members, a demonstration or parade would be embarrassing; with little overt support, teach-ins would be poorly attended. So instead the Harvard Communists work as members of other organizations. They are inevitably among the hardest working, most vociferous members of non-Communist organizations, and often win respect simply by dint of compulsive industry. They also serve a major communicative function: by meeting together with other Boston Communists and reading reports to each other, they can keep abreast of the events in each area of the radical movement. Then...