sentences:  In the year of 1963, Wang published an article entitled “The Philosophy of the Table”, which defended Mao's version of dialectical materialism, winning praise from Mao himself.Prior to the Cultural Revolution, at the height of the Sino-Soviet split Wang was recruited by Maoist literary henchman Zhou Yang to a group he was organizing to research and criticize the Marxist humanism which was then influential in the Eastern bloc, exemplified by (among others) György Lukács in Hungary.For these reasons, before the Culture Revolution, Wang, with the support from Mao Zedong, was a leader in People's Daily.