Every other intellectual and artist was a communist or socialist back then, but not in any way that seriously threatened the state. They all happily worked on the bomb, after all.

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LAC-Tech 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

I don't claim to be an expert on this case.

But I can tell when things are being omitted or glossed over.

	▲	xbar 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It does not detail those facts. I gloss over them in my reading of the article because I think the topic is been well covered elsewhere. For example, the Oppenheimer movie did a fair job of depicting the communist party activities among intellectuals in the late 1930s. The fact that those activities led to a thing called McCarthism in the early 1950s is pretty well documented. Imprisoning Qian for 5 years for a meeting in the late 1930s after his contributions to the war effort was very Red Scare consistent.