SOURCE: Muller, Herbert J. “Dogmatic Double-Talk.” Saturday Review 41, no. 44 (1 November 1958): 38.

In the following review, Muller discusses how the work of The Secret Name by Lin is “pretty shallow.”

“Communism is the secret name of the dread antagonist,” wrote Heinrich Heine more than a century ago, in a remarkably prophetic passage about the “wild, gloomy time … roaring toward us.” Lin Yutang now has too easy, almost jolly a time exposing the dread antagonist; but it should first be said that the Communists have made it easy for him. As their secret is ideology, he asks a simple human question: “What have they actually done to the worker?” He has no trouble demonstrating that they have exploited and enslaved him. Making productivity their main goal, they have denounced as petite bourgois the principles of Socialistic equality and stripped workers of the rights and freedoms they enjoy in the capitalist countries...