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ceaselessly engenders the Jew." In other words, civil society is so ugly
that it excretes Jews from its bowels.
Trevor Corson, who studied at Beijing Normal University in 1989,
wrote in the February
2000
issue of
The Atlantic Monthly,
"The origins
of the movement among Chinese students were less romantic, and less
clearly abou t democracy per se" than Western reporters believed. My
own impressions of that time were that there was great interest in
democracy and in political theory. People asked me wonderful questions
about separation of powers and about the rule of law.
It
was in China
that the May 4th Movement arose in 1919, a movement that chose
"Science and Democracy" as its slogan .
It
was in China that people first
understood that democracy-arguing, testing, reconsidering-is the
political realization of the scientific method.
Even though the Chinese are no longer interested in Marx, the legit–
imacy of the Communist Party is based on the unquestioning respect
that people have for him.
If
Americans will not say bad things about
him, why should the Chinese be any different? On the other hand, if we
and they can see just how much Marx opposed democracy, we can all
live in a world where two plus two equals four.
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