For Ever Embers

party have made the concessions or the intellectuals have decided to go along. It is not very difficult to see which of the two possibilities is real. That's why wherever I went, rather simple statements such as that Stalinist socialism is on the retreat made by me were very strongly countered. In reply, all scholars dropped the adjective 'Stalinist' and went on to assert that socialism was not in retreat, certainly not in China.