Chairman X is the complete antithesis of both Dr. Gift and Dean Harstad. Like Dr. Gift, his religion is also not specifically referenced in Moo. However, Smiley does include that Chairman X is a communist. Because of his belief system, Chairman X loathes both Dr. Gift’s self-helping, capitalist methods, especially the Costa Rican gold mining plan, and Dean Harstad, whose use of, “patience as a weapon” the passionate and driven Chairman X finds irritating to the point where he daydreams of murdering Harstad (Smiley 40). Despite these two points of conflict, in the beginning of the novel, Chairman X is mainly concerned with his garden outside Old Meats and with creating a socially conscious generation of students as he worried that, “whatever
