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Newsletter Nr. 1.175
Amsterdam, March 30, 2024


THE STRUGGLE AGAINST MODERNITY - The Chinese and Russian Retreat to Traditionalism - RAY HARRIS

The recently released TV series 'The Three Body Problem' (based on the novel by Liu Cixin begins with a struggle session during the Cultural Revolution in which a professor is accused of supporting the reactionary theoretical physics of the 'imperialist dog' Albert Einstein. The professor refuses to recant and is beaten to death. This sequence is based on actual events. Absurd as it seems, a hardline faction (headed by Chen Boda) really did claim that the theory of relativity contradicted dialectical materialism.

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