Defiant Chinese Intellectual Is Official Outcast; `Communist Party Controls Everything. But Who Controls the Communist Party?'

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 3, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

Wang Ruoshui's voice is rarely heard in China these days, because no one dares publish his work. But this dissident Marxist's advocacy of humanism and his view that individuals are alienated from society not only in the West but also in socialist countries are still widely debated among Chinese students and intellectuals.

Fired in 1983 from his job as an editor of the People's Daily, the leading Communist Party newspaper, and stripped last year of his party membership, the philosopher steadfastly rejects demands that he renounce his opinions.

Wang says he will continue to speak out and has ...

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