Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 121 of the late Tom Wolfe’s essay “In the Land of Rococo Marxists,” which is a chapter in his 2000 book, Hooking Up:

American intellectuals of the Adjectival Fascism phase had terrible year in 1989. In June, Chinese students in Beijing rebelled against the ancien Maoist régime, defied the tanks, and brought out into Tiananmen Square a plaster statute, the Goddess of Democracy, who, with her arms lifted to the heavens, looked suspiciously like the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Who among the intellectuals ever would have suspected that Chinese dissidents had been looking to America as their model of freedom all along? Then on November 9 the Berlin Wall came down, and in no time the Soviet Union collapsed and its Eastern European empire disintegrated.