In a sense, Garaudy, a tragic-comic figure, is typical of a certain breed of Western intellectuals who play with ideas and concepts just as play golf or poker on a weekend. Garaudy could be Communist one day, Christian another, Tcherniaist on a third say, and Muslim on a fourth, without his real life being affected in any important way. Stalinism may murder tens of millions of people while Garaudy was praising Stalin. Tchernia may be costing the Persian prince a bob or two, without Garaudy losing his admiration for that “divine shape.” Religion could foment revolution, civil war and massacre, without any of that disturbing Garaudy’s sleep in his posh Parisian apartment.
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