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...West, British Editor-Translator Max Hayward does not say, but it must have followed a secret route like the one that brought him Sinyavsky-Tertz's The Trial Begins in 1960. That grotesque account of a woman who procures an abortion during the black days of the Stalinist "Doctor's Plot" of 1952 was a key element in the prosecution's assault on Sinyavsky...
This does not mean that Red China is embarking on a Stalinist blood bath. Klein pointed out that Chinese political purges in the past never involved death, and almost never jail. The official simply leaves his post, and may even return to government at some later date under more favorable conditions...
Many observers, who noticed the same stupendous switch in the editorial policies of the ultra-left Daily Worker, were convinced that the Student Union had been following a hard-Stalinist position from the beginning. In any case, the most powerful anti-war group was silenced, and in October, a petition calling for the repeal of the Neutrality Acts received 1000 signatures...
...best the group would claim a "somewhat coherent overview" of what must be done to change American society. This step-down from dogma again sets off the generation of the 60's. The radicals of the 50's, similar to their predecessors of the 30's, held an almost Stalinist conception of leadership whereby a few key leaders would give the group its doctrine. These earlier radicals view the lack of ideology as the main weakness of the New Left. To them, SDS is "hung up on problems of participatory democracy...
Many observers, who noticed the same stupendous switch in the editorial policies of the ultra-left Daily Worker, were convinced that the Student Union had been following a hard-Stalinist position from the beginning. In any case, the most powerful anti-war group was silenced, and in October, a petition calling for the repeal of the Neutrality Acts received 1000 signatures...