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Understanding the artificial dialectic. The zigzags of politically correct opinion in communist regimes.
"Long live the triumph of Chairman Mao's revolutionary line of literature and art!" | Jiasheng Ding; Shanghai Theatre Academy Share Give a gift subscription In a collection of essays titled The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism, the great twentieth century Russian-British philosopher Isaiah Berlin tells a story: There once was a man who worked as a steward on a seagoing ship. He was told that, in order to avoid breaking plates during heavy weather, he should not walk in a straight line. Rather, he should try to move in a zig zag manner to maintain his balance. A storm came.…
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