It is not fatuous for a Communist to imagine that human rights proponentswhether inside or outside the USSRare organizing a "brain drain." The small kernal of truth within that enormous lie is this: Wherever it has been imposed. communism has meant a steady outflow of the more talented. the more independentminded. the more religious. the more enterprising. Certainly these strengths. cause of so much worry to totalitarian governors. are welcome to the countries where the emigres go. If Mr. Gorbachev sees in the emigration phenomenon not natural results of the unnatural logic of communism but some supposed secret pilot to organize a "brain drain." we ought not be surprised. His incomprehension is a likely result of his orthodox Marxist view of the relationship between state and subject. Today.
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