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moral purity, and a systematic indifference - or underestimation - of
the repressions veiled by the slogans of socialism and national liber–
ation. Hence the demands made of the democratic West are im–
measurably greater than those made of the totalitarian East and
Arab states .
If
anything was proven by the ideological differences at
the conference, it is that not even Utopianism can be unilateral.
It is as though part of the liberal mind has been paralyzed by
"progressive" myths, which seem to dictate that advanced thinking
put its social ideals above all other political concerns. On the other
hand, the reaction of the new conservatives has merely added to the
confusion by spreading its own myths about America, and by revers–
ing its options, that is, by sacrificing the idea of social justice to
national interests.
w.p.
