ABSTRACT
One of the most recent rationalizers of student violence is, sadly enough, a man who as a former Hungarian communist suffered at the hands of Matyas Rákosi and later participated in the 1956 Hungarian uprising. He is George Paloczi-Horvath. After watching the Polish October, the Prague Spring and all those regrettably futile attempts to bring a breath of freedom to Eastern Europe, Paloczi-Horvath now finds that repression in Western countries is as bad as, if not worse than, it is in the Soviet Union or the satellite countries. The Wellsian epigram surely describes the unconditional surrender during the 1968–1970 campus insurrection of these academics who had long ignored students in favor of other more lucrative commitments and were now intoning: mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Professor Adelson has suggested that what he calls “the images of victim and visionary control our current perception of youth”.
