In a strange, sad way, the most painful losses of the cultural revolution are the ones that are least justifiable. The relaxed, chummy, brotherly atmosphere of the scene that this picture portrays has now, of course, completely vanished. Everywhere you go in any Oxford college now there will be shrieking women, contemptuous ethnics, pop music and ugliness - everyone dressed in horrible clothes, thinking horrible thoughts, making horrible plans for a horrible future. And other universities will no doubt be even worse.
And to what end? Why did they have to destroy even these small havens of calm and learning and civilisation?
Because at the heart of Marxism lies nihilism - the worship of nothing, the love of nothing, and the hope for nothing but inevitable the decline and destruction of everything.
We must remember what has gone, and always hope for a better tomorrow.
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