Within two years, it was all over. Levada’s problems began after he published his university talks in two tiny books titled Lectures on Sociology. The books passed the censors, who allowed a thousand copies out into the world, but once they were published, they were condemned for not relying on concepts of historical materialism in all their statements, and, worst of all, for “allowing for ambiguous interpretations”—in other words, for being the opposite of dogma, forcing listeners and readers to think.28 Levada publicly admitted his mistakes but was still stripped of one of his advanced
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Jesus. That's nuts.
