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Blurbs & Swipes. Apart from U.S. shows, however, the Iron Curtain countries still come on strong with dialectic. Television's purpose, sums up the Hungarian theoretical journal Tarsadalmi Szemle, is "agitation and propaganda in a perseveringly Marxist spirit." To that end, a typical recent night's fare in Budapest kicked off with a blurb on the activities of red-scarfed youth groups. Then followed a 15-minute commentary on Southeast Asia by an official of the party newspaper, and an unillustrated and soporific 45-minute autobiography by a 70-year-old Communist militant...
Hungary has produced perhaps the most interesting sign of change. Last month, in the party journal Tarsadalmi Szemle (Social Review), Red Theoretician Josef Lukacs, editor of an atheist magazine, argued that "we do not get very far with the old-type atheism and anticlerical ism which tried to fight against religion in an abstract manner," and that Communism should cooperate with "well-intentioned religious people" in achieving common social goals...
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