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how some people deluded themselves about some tyrannies
Such of these people as are still alive have lost none
of their self-confidence.
copied from Accuracy in Academia's Campus Report June 1989

They Said It

	Statements on China by Western intellectuals, mostly
compiled by sociologist Paul Hollander in his book about
visitors to communist countries, Political Pilgrims.

Simone de Beauvoir, leftwing intellectual during the disastrous
Great Leap Forward in late 50s: "life in China today is
exceptionally pleasant"

Hewlett Johnson 1961: China, I feel, is performing an essentially
religious act, entirely parallel with this Christian abhorrence
of covetousness...freeing men from the bondage of the acquisitive
instinct and paving the way  for a new organization of life on a
higher level of existence.

Hans Konigsberger, 1966: ... a country which as become almost as
painstakingly careful about human lives as New Zealand.

James Reston, New York Times columnist, 1971 [at the height of
the Cultural Revolution in which over ten million people were
killed]: praised the communist regime's "tremendous effort to
bring out what is best in man, what makes them good, what makes
them cooperate with one another and be considerate and not
beastly to one another."

John K. Fairbank, Harvard scholar, 1972: The Maoist revolution is
on the whole the best thing that has happened to the Chinese people
in centuries.

Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1972: the overwhelming
impression of China is vitality - the enthusiasm, the humor,
and the tremendous commitment of her people to this new China.

American Friends Service Commmittee, 1972: the young "all
seemed imbued with an immense revolutionary fervor.  They expressed
complete dedication to the goal and objectives of the revolution ...

David Kolodney, in the leftwing magazine Ramparts, 1972: At the
same time that we adopted the Chinese model of revoltuionary
purity as a political touchstone... we drew upon it as a source
of energy and hope.  China served as proof that the revolutionary
process can make a difference...

David Rockefeller, 1973: Whatever the price of the Chinese
revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing
more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in
fostering high morale and community of purpose.

Arthur Galston, American scientist, 1973: Visiting China ...
made me wonder whether `human nature' as we know it in
the competitive West is the only course of development model
possible for mankind.  It reawakened some of my youthful
idealism and made me qustion some of the deep-rooted
cynicism prevalent in our society.
[When I knew Galston in the late 1940s, he was a Communist
Party member.  His reference to "youthful idealism" should
be interpreted in the light of that.]

Carol Tavris, American psychologist, 1974: When you enter
China you walk through the looking glass into a world that
reflects a reality antithetical to ours.  You leave
Watergate, the energy crisis, crime, privacy, dirty movies,
cynicism and sex at the border, and step across into safety,
stability, enthusiasm, clean streets, clean talk and
positive thinking.

John K. Fairbank, 1974: under Mao the Chinese Revolution has
become not only an advance in the industrial arts...but also
a far-reaching moral crusade to change the very human Chinese
personality in the direction of self-sacrifice and serving
others.

Karsten Struhl and Paula Rothenberg Struhl, 1980: The Chinese
revolution has served as an important example for liberation
movements throughout the world.  This is not only because
China has succeeded in creating a socialist economy in which
the illiteracy and starvation of the recent past has been
virtually eliminated.  More important, Chinese socialism
has opted for a fundamentally different moral order, in 
which the value of community takes precedence over individual
self-interest.