There is a comrade like this who once wrote a very good article. He is currently in college, just a sophomore, with more than two years before graduation. His major is completely useless, and he is always opening the door to indulgence at school. Everyone urges him to drop out and enter a factory to accept labor reform, not to waste time in college, become degenerate, and change his parasitic student status to become part of the most promising class—the proletariat. But this comrade is unwilling in every possible way. He believes that only as a student does he have time to write articles, and having a degree gives him more choices for employment. Below are his remarks, with privacy-related parts redacted. Hope everyone will actively share their opinions:
I really can’t understand it. I don’t think it’s necessary. I’ve been here for almost two years, and at least with this diploma, I might still have other job options in the future. What can I choose now? I don’t even have a college diploma; even high school is less valuable than a technical school. Capitalist education is just a quarantine pass; without it, there’s no choice. Even those willing to communicate with me in the factory tell me that I have no future there and should learn more skills. Do I want to carry this nagging look until I grow a beard and become middle-aged? Become thick-skinned and indifferent to everything? As the eldest grandson, I shouldn’t be killed by others, but do I have to carry an incomprehensible crime in front of all my relatives for a lifetime? I’m already halfway through. After entering the factory, I lost all my time. If I don’t finish my plans, I’ll be scolded from time to time. I still have time to arrange things at school. What else can I learn in the future? XX factory has a lighter workload now, but the first two days are especially intense. If I switch to another place, I won’t even think about learning other things. I might as well forget about writing anymore. These days at work, I haven’t written anything. When I was writing articles before, I only worked six hours a day in the H catering industry, sometimes five and a half hours. I only started working in the afternoon and would stay up late until after eleven, but I still had time to write news comments every time, even though I hardly earned any money. Due to arriving early some months and leaving early others, I couldn’t meet the hours for bonuses, only earning a little over two thousand. Two-fifths of my articles were written at home, with subsequent revisions at school. All the work related to **** (a certain document) was written by me at school. I can’t understand why I should come during holidays too. I didn’t resist; I even skipped classes during holidays to stay a few more days. Every time before finals, I stay for about ten days, then go back to take exams and return for winter and summer vacations. Half of the semester is over, and I can still graduate in my fourth year. Why has it come to this?
Meanwhile, this comrade believes that many others in the association have already obtained their university diplomas. Telling him to drop out is easy for others to say, and he regrets not having graduated a few years earlier. Some comrades are still students but haven’t urged everyone else to drop out. Why are they so cruel to him?
He wants to ask everyone on the forum: what do you think about this matter?
This comrade said they don’t understand why it has come to this point. In fact, those above who use university education to create a fallback for capitalism are just doing so.
And the idea of expanding the brain-body gap.
In reality, it’s all something we are forced to oppose. It’s precisely because you think this way that things have escalated to this point. You say that you only had time to write certain articles because you worked six hours a day in a catering job, but on the other hand, these articles still have flaws. Moreover, you yourself said that at that time, to some extent, you were encouraged by the wage dispute struggles. You definitely weren’t thinking like now, trying to find a way to detach from labor and become a superior. You say you have no time now, that working eight hours leaves no time for writing or participating in activities. But before, A, B, C, D, who worked while participating in activities, weren’t they also writing reports during work? They wouldn’t be like you, who, after starting a shift, could hardly participate in normal organizational activities. You think the main reason you have no time is a mental issue—that working every day feels like being in prison, and when you go home, you don’t want to do anything. You’ve even admitted before, saying: “After going home, I just think Amitabha, I don’t want any activities today, I just want to sleep early.” You say you have no time at work, but these people are different—they are working. Why do you have no time? Isn’t this worth thinking about?
Because this comrade has many viewpoints, I will refute them one by one. First of all, what is the difference between graduating from a technical secondary school and graduating from high school? When entering the workforce, the bourgeoisie and the middlemen don’t care about this difference at all, because in their eyes, the broad working masses before obtaining a university degree are all the lowest and most despised laborers. It doesn’t matter whether they attended technical secondary school or high school; even middle school, elementary school, and high school are not really different. I don’t know how this comrade came to such a conclusion, could it be that they are blindly trusting the bourgeois educational institutions and thus saying things that completely do not align with factual reality?
Many times going to school is not for long-term academic qualifications or anything, because these are too distant, making the narrow vision of petty bourgeoisie seem less important. The real key is the comfortable life in university, and this kind of life is harmful. In the past, writing articles was not because there was time to write in university, but because the mindset wanted to write and could write. If now one disregards the collective interests and insists on going to university for oneself, articles can no longer be written at the level of the past.
Even if I go to university, even if I do mental labor, in this cannibalistic society of Zhongxiu, can I necessarily end up with a good outcome? I don’t see it that way, I feel I haven’t ended up with a good outcome either. When I was about to graduate from university, I worried about unemployment after graduation. I worked night shifts at Foxconn for 12 hours diligently. Before resigning to take care of my grandmother infected with COVID-19, I didn’t dare take a day off. I worked tirelessly at Pinduoduo’s Dodo grocery sorting center, and a middleman took half of my wages as a fee. Is this the “qualified” result? After graduation, I entered a monopolistic state-owned enterprise in China, doing repetitive work every day, busy to the point of dizziness, with an average income. The work regulations are strict and authoritarian. Is this also considered a life worth looking forward to?
This comrade’s words are actually based on a pragmatic stance. For those who have already graduated from university, he says, “You have your diplomas, so there’s no pain standing here.” For some comrades who are still students, he asks why they haven’t dropped out. But what about those who have already decided to drop out or are not attending university at all? He says, “Their awareness is too high; I can’t learn that.” This comrade doesn’t see that those he criticizes have all given up their originally comfortable and leisurely lives for the revolution.
Some comrades, after graduating, can find relatively stable jobs, and when the market is good, their salaries can reach over 10,000 yuan, but they still turn everything over to the collective, leaving only what is necessary for daily life; some are close to graduation, far from being students like you in your second year, and they have reached this point where there’s no need to talk about dropping out. They are also for the revolutionary cause, already walking on the edge of being expelled, and perhaps as the revolution develops further, they will leave university directly and enter factories. Those comrades who choose not to attend university for the revolutionary cause are even more clearly sacrificing their personal interests for the revolution.
As for this comrade, the most advantageous choice for the revolution now is to drop out, because studying a profession that doesn’t earn much money anyway, and the so-called “clerical” work that pays high wages is just an illusion. Moreover, according to this comrade’s pattern of ideological struggle, every time he returns to school, he falls back into the embrace of spiritual opium. Knowing this, why does he still use a pragmatic stance to oppose everyone’s correct opinions and insist on living a life of doing less work for more money, aiming to be a high-level mental laborer, even a petty bourgeois or bourgeois intellectual?
Secondly, what does it mean to be nagged by others? Many workers have also advised me; they think I am young, a twenty-year-old, and shouldn’t live in a factory. They say young people should go into sales, learn some skills. But this is just their mistaken understanding of capitalist society. They, based on simple and selfless thoughts, want me to live a better life, so they offer some kind and yet wrong advice. Faced with these suggestions, as communists, shouldn’t we find ways to refute and help them eliminate these wrong ideas? First of all, secondly, the comrade’s mention of workers encouraging him to go to university is truly disheartening. We all know what the university environment is like. In my view, university students are the most morally corrupt and have the worst influence among all student groups in contemporary Chinese society. Furthermore, even after graduating from university, this comrade probably won’t live the life he claims to want. Take some university students I have encountered: once, when I stayed at a youth hostel, I met a recent graduate doing an internship. He studied software programming but ended up only able to do live stream link jobs, living a very tiring life daily, earning only three or four thousand yuan, even less than factory workers. He had been in school too long, lacked social experience, and was deceived by food delivery companies. He rented an electric bike for 700 yuan a month, signed a contract to rent for twelve months, and in a month, he earned nothing. When I asked about his major, he told me not to mention it. He said all the jobs he found in his field were scams; companies that actually hire people like him don’t want him. Those willing to hire him are actually using him under the guise of training, making him pay to work. This is a typical example of university graduates’ employment issues. In capitalist society, so-called employment freedom is fundamentally impossible. What I want to say is that those workers, based on their simple feelings, hope this comrade will change his life choices and live a better life than them. But when this comrade talks about going to university, did he think about these things? The working class is full of thoughts on how to help you, while you only think of yourself. Are you truly worthy of those workers who advised you?
I don’t understand what crime this would count as among relatives. Relatives are also concrete and have class distinctions. If your relatives truly act out of correct notions of right and wrong, and selfless morality, then if they see you returning to school and instead start to degenerate, pursue various pleasures and indulge in immoral enjoyment, and morality becomes corrupt, they should also advise you not to go to school. What could be more important than being a conscientious person for the people’s interests rather than narrow personal gains? How much does education matter compared to being a good person? If they only care about the face of being a “college student,” and care about the benefits brought by academic opportunism and educational advancement, even if people become increasingly morally corrupt, they see it as acceptable. Such “relatives” are only harming you, and there’s no need to care about how they see you.
Comrade, why can’t you break away from bourgeois academia? Is it truly because you’re afraid you can no longer contribute to the revolution?
I think the real reason is not so. From what you say, I can see that you still care about the reputation and benefits that your academic credentials in bourgeois education can give you. And you’re afraid to work with the proletariat, the working masses at the bottom, afraid to share hardships and joys with them. I tell you, those who say they can’t learn anything in the factory simply haven’t been taught the theory of Marxism; they come with bourgeois ideas, believing they can’t learn anything in the factory. They need to be transformed theoretically by accepting Marxist theory. Their practical production ability has already been proven and exercised.
Since you can write a good article, I believe your theoretical level surpasses mine; it must be quite good. But revolutionary theory must be combined with practice! You should have already learned the theory, what you need now is practice. Completely discard that set of bourgeois ideas in your mind! Cultivate your practical ability! And in this process, combine theory with practice, and through labor reform, also help you fight against bourgeois ideas in your mind!
For the revolution, for the proletariat, discard whatever hinders you from becoming a revolutionary intellectual, from becoming a useful person for the proletariat! Dropping out of school is merely losing the residence rights of a petty bourgeoisie’s hedonistic nest, but what you gain is revolutionary transformation! Transform yourself from a useless parasitic student, an intellectual detached from the proletariat, into a revolutionary who leads the proletariat to send capitalism into their grave!
Before coming into contact with a true revolutionary organization, and before knowing the revolutionary path, I was like you, immersed in the bourgeois-created hedonistic nest, indulging in some unrealistic dreams. But now, after contact and understanding, I have decided to break away from the bourgeoisie and fight against their corrupting bourgeois ideas. I believe you have found an organization and understand the prospects of the revolution, so what are you still hesitating about?
Finally, the so-called time issue, I know a comrade who once worked in a capitalist twelve-hour sweatshop. His daily work was not easy, but he still managed to find time to participate in organizational activities, contributed to the organization, and even wrote some good articles. This comrade did not always make progress; in fact, he often faced near-political death. When did these things happen? They often occurred when he was estranged from the working class and had left the working class. He once left factory life due to reasons like the New Year. At that time, he should have had the most time, but he forgot about revolution, communism, and his roots in a relaxed lifestyle, indulging in internet novels and masturbation. With everyone’s help and persuasion, he rekindled his communist ideals and decided to re-engage with factory life. At that time, he was again ‘busy,’ but he was far more active than when he ‘had time.’ This comrade should think carefully about these vivid examples. Do not be blinded by personal individualism for a moment. Think carefully about the revolutionary ideals and cause of communism!
When did a revolutionary start to worry about the reputation within a Confucian family? Throughout history, all reactionaries have held the strongest malice towards revolutionaries; in their eyes, destroying their reactionary rule is the most “heinous” thing. But even so, all public opinion, slander, and defamation cannot overshadow the resolute call of the revolutionary masses to fight to the end, wave after wave, and no conspiracy or trick can hinder the development of the revolutionary situation. Why does this comrade only feel annoyed by the tiny “fly” buzzing here? He is already engaged in revolutionary activities that go against the tide; when did he need the understanding of “relatives” from his old family? Moreover, whether they are relatives or not, class distinctions exist. The so-called relatives in this comrade’s words are merely maintained by vulgar and fragile property and kinship ties. The reason this comrade feels unable to endure is because he still lacks the resolve to completely sever old social relations. Furthermore, this comrade only emphasizes objectively how he can work, without mentioning how he personally treats the various teachings in the school that implement bourgeois will, and the more corrupting spiritual opium that poisons people’s minds. How can this comrade guarantee his loyalty to the revolutionary cause? Moreover, using workers with relatively backward ideas to justify oneself and defend personal interests—isn’t that truly shameful? Little does he realize that the prominent issue in the current revolutionary movement is to spread correct viewpoints among the working class and to promote Marxism.
This comrade’s idea is completely wrong. In capitalist society, capitalist production exists to maintain the bourgeoisie’s exploitation and to satisfy their luxurious enjoyment. Capitalists treat workers as tools and will never teach them correct or useful skills, so workers clearly understand that in such an environment, they only live a life of being exploited day after day. Even if they learn so-called useful skills, it is only to sustain capitalist production, which also widens the gap between brain and body. Do you think being nagged for a lifetime and bearing the so-called reputation of relatives is how you want to live forever? But what is the purpose of those relatives saying such words? Their hearts take pride in becoming exploiters of the bourgeoisie, and shame in becoming a selfless proletarian worker. Isn’t this insult from the enemy just a proof that what we are doing is correct?
First of all, there is indeed a mistake. For the bourgeoisie, having a technical secondary school diploma and a high school diploma makes no difference. Even if it is true, this is also a manifestation of the hierarchical system of capitalist education. Would a Marxist, someone committed to eliminating all differences caused by class, use this hierarchy as a reason to defend themselves? This is self-evident. As for the issue of choice, I suggest this comrade read Marx’s ‘Considerations of Youth When Choosing a Profession’.
Secondly, he mentions the need to learn more, which is indeed necessary. Marx and Engels also acknowledged this; they said Marxists are the most knowledgeable group. However, in today’s society, there are two ways to acquire knowledge: one is spontaneous, climbing the ladder of the bourgeois hierarchy—from primary, middle, high school, to university, then master’s, then doctorate—each level higher than the last. Therefore, each level is parasitic and reactionary, and the direct result of learning knowledge is the bourgeois worldview and lifestyle; the other is conscious, participating in labor and revolutionary practice, transforming one’s worldview through practice. This process can learn communist knowledge and other professional knowledge, cultivating successors for the proletarian revolutionary cause, becoming both red and specialized revolutionary experts. Would these revolutionary experts turn into the ‘bearded middle-aged men’ that this comrade describes? This is self-evident; such slander is nothing but the spontaneous, bourgeois educational route.
Thirdly, there is the issue of bearing the insults of relatives. Why do relatives insult someone without education? Why do they praise someone with high education? Ultimately, it is because these relatives hold bourgeois worldviews, hoping to latch onto an bourgeois ‘big leg’ to elevate themselves, letting their ‘chickens and dogs rise to heaven’. Is it not normal for a communist to be insulted by such people? Why react so strongly?
Next is the issue of time, which seems to be the most reasonable reason. However, some comrades can maintain high activity levels after working 12 hours of intense labor in the factory, but when they leave the factory for comfort, they lose this enthusiasm. Why? Because time is not a necessary condition for participating in collective activities; it is a matter of worldview. Without ideological unity, organizational unity is meaningless. Therefore, whether a person can participate in activities depends on their ideological level, not how much free time they have. So why bother about reading free time versus factory busyness? The answer is only one: participating in organizational activities is just an excuse to engage in other activities. As for what those other activities are, I believe this is also self-evident.
Finally, the issue of whether to have a diploma seems to be a matter of personal freedom, but what is the ideological basis of this personal freedom? It is the bourgeois educational route, the bourgeois worldview that loves ease and hates labor. Does a revolutionary organization tolerate or encourage such ideas? This is even more self-evident.
My personal opinion: I think this comrade’s idea is wrong. This comrade said: “Getting a butt badge at least means I might still have other jobs to choose from in the future. What can I choose now? I don’t even have a college diploma.” This comrade is not without options, especially since their major wouldn’t have led to a “good job” after graduation anyway. This comrade also said: “The capitalist’s educational qualification is just a quarantine certificate; without it, there’s no choice.” This still aligns with the hierarchy of educational levels, and the ‘choices’ they desire are nothing more than easy jobs, jobs that require less work but pay more.
This comrade’s view is actually similar to that of the newcomer named fuhua these days, who says that to do revolution, one must have money and leisure; to protect personal interests, one must do so; otherwise, it is leftist and one-sided. This comrade actually believes that the pen of writing articles can only be wielded by detached, high-and-mighty intellectuals, who can only “drink coffee and stir up revolution.”
Those who can live a good life in a capitalist society and aim to live their own good life will not go to revolution in the first place.
Moreover, this comrade is a member of our association’s formal organization, has been participating for several years, and should be responsible to the organization. We will not force, but how to choose must be debated clearly. It cannot be that personal interests lead to doing whatever one wants; this is not the style of a Communist Party member, and it tarnishes the reputation of the Vanguard.
Furthermore, if we establish the Party in the future, as Communist Party members, the Party’s resolutions must be carried out without hesitation.
In fact, even with this quarantine stamp, it doesn’t make much difference; the employer at your work unit won’t really look at these. They only care whether you can work and whether you can be a good slave, working hard. The fact is, if you work hard as a slave, even without a degree, you’ll stay; if you don’t, even students from Tsinghua or Peking University will be expelled. Is this quarantine stamp issued by the bourgeoisie really so hard for you to let go? Moreover, being nagged at is not really something worth worrying about. In a revolutionary organization, what you should truly care about is how to contribute to the revolution; your vision should be broad. Being so concerned here only shows that you share some backward traits with those workers, a desire not to be a lifetime so-called bottom-tier person, to master a skill, and to stand out. Most of those nagging you think this way.
When this comrade was saying these words, he truly forgot his responsibility as a Marxist. Going to work in the factory is not just about earning money or pursuing a “good” personal future, but about spreading Marxism to the masses. Regardless of who said this, even if such words come from the mouths of the masses, they only reflect backward thinking. How can this be used as a reason to abandon revolutionary ideals in pursuit of personal happiness? Such fallacies are untenable. Many people here have not only attended university but have graduated; everyone knows that a university degree is of little use. Based on my personal experience, I have seen undergraduates among delivery workers, and they have good majors. However, according to them, it is hard to find a job after graduation, so they have been delivering food for years. Moreover, their majors are not very useful, and even technically, they do little to help find a job. Of course, I am not trying to find a good job for this comrade or persuade him to learn a craft, because this is not a matter of profession but of ideology. You, comrade, should think about where your bright future really lies. Giving up university will not turn you into a middle-aged man with a beard; what awaits you is a vast world. Many of us were students in the past, having experienced some form of wage labor, but now we are still studying, and our main identity remains that of students. But from the perspective of Marxism, analyzing the contrast between wage labor and studying, we can conclude: the most humble are the smartest, and the noble are the most foolish. When I first engaged in wage labor, I knew nothing and was in poor health, while my coworkers knew everything. They taught me how to work and shared their social experiences. More importantly, it was a comparison of thoughts and morals. There is an old saying: “Those who uphold justice often slaughter dogs, while those with a broken heart are mostly scholars.” Today’s college students are obsessed with spiritual opium, talking about games, entertainment, women… They are as vulgar as can be. Talking to them is utterly pointless. On the other hand, when I interacted with workers, I experienced genuine human relationships for the first time. This was partly because I gradually became independent and started actively communicating with others, and partly because of their sincerity. Although many workers under capitalism still hold backward ideas, their practice clearly sets them apart from students in terms of ideology—much more sincere. As mentioned above, this comrade has also participated in wage labor, which shows that the so-called “working everywhere” theory praised by the left is untenable. Only through maintaining ideological struggle during wage labor and transforming one’s worldview with Marxism can one truly reform oneself in labor and shed selfish, utilitarian thinking. I have experienced this myself repeatedly. When I indulged in parasitic pleasures, my relationship with my roommates became “harmonious,” and I forgot the friendship I had built with workers through wage labor. I was satisfied with the life of a university student. Only when I persist in struggle and maintain good ideological conditions do I truly understand the significance of wage labor and continue to engage in self-transforming labor.
I think this comrade should consider right and wrong clearly; only with a clear sense of justice and injustice can one distinguish love and hatred.
What is the purpose of the bourgeoisie establishing schools? Lenin made it very clear: “In such schools, it is less about educating the young generation of workers and peasants, and more about training them to serve the interests of the bourgeoisie.”
Hollow “knowledge,” disconnected theories, and a comfortable campus life. In such a life, students will only forget class struggle more and more, forget oppression, and then become more degenerate, eventually becoming part of the bourgeoisie. Haven’t we seen enough of these things? Why continue to stubbornly persist?
I think this comrade is actually very lucky, because many students in school suffer oppression just like in the old society, not only constrained by bourgeois discipline, with no freedom, but also mentally tormented. Many even end up with no way out and can only choose to commit suicide. School life is a torment for them. But this comrade has learned to write articles and promote ideas through the organization. From what I know about this comrade, he once participated in a salary protest, attracting many onlookers. This comrade should think about it—without the association, how far could he go alone?
Think about it, just like many people in our organization, many of them chose to drop out. They had no choice; it was the association that saved them, teaching them how to break the shackles on their bodies, how to fight their parents, how to fight teachers, how to fight for freedom, and how to gain dignity. We cannot give all this up just for a moment of peace.
Being an independent person is far better than becoming a university professor!
This comrade’s words reveal a very serious aura of an educated intellectual. He said:
Based on my own social experience working part-time, a college degree isn’t that important; many workers only have junior high, high school, or even lower levels of education. Similarly, speaking from my past experience, only students who have long been immersed in capitalist schools—detached from society and productive labor—place so much importance on educational qualifications. I dropped out of high school. I used to be anxious, thinking that if I couldn’t go to university, my life would have no hope, and that a high school diploma was useless. But once I made the firm decision to work, I realized I was completely wrong. After working for a few months or half a year, I gradually felt how useless and a waste of life it was to learn that dull, detached knowledge in capitalist schools and to devote most of my thoughts and energy to rote learning. The social university is the most meaningful university, and also the university that best trains social experience and revolutionary skills. I think everyone in the association, in trying to persuade this comrade, is doing so with good intentions, considering these aspects; but because this comrade still holds onto that mindset of the bourgeois intellectual caste—using the imperial examination as a means of upward mobility—he cannot understand our intentions. Actually, I used to also hold illusions about climbing upward and partially agree with the hierarchical system of capitalist institutions, which is why I didn’t want to give up on university. These hesitations ultimately stem from class interests.
This comrade also said:
He uses this as an argument for why he must go to university, which is completely unreasonable. Today’s society is a decayed capitalist society, because it has lost the genuine leadership of the Communist Party. The masses do not understand Marxism and often hold many erroneous views. Workers think this way because they have accepted the bourgeois propaganda of the bourgeoisie’s ideology of “studies leading to officialdom” and hierarchical concepts—“no future in the factory”—the class nature of this phrase is so obvious! Moreover, when workers themselves say this, isn’t that an admission that they are just lowly slaves? When revolutionaries hear this, their first thought should not be to persuade others to change their thoughts, but to see this as a reason for themselves to continue university. Doesn’t that indicate a serious problem with their own thinking?
This comrade also said:
This paragraph further reflects his weakness and servile mentality. He worries that if he doesn’t continue to university but instead becomes a worker, he will be looked at differently by his family, and will “carry an incomprehensible shame.” He forgets the revolutionary spirit of going against the tide. Isn’t the revolutionary supposed to oppose this capitalist world? His fear of being scolded by his family is also unreasonable. Marxists, in defending revolutionary principles, often face endless nagging when engaging in theoretical struggle with backward-thinking people. When Mao Zedong advocated cutting hair among students, it was also a debate with Confucianists. Ultimately, the so-called nagging is just an external factor; external factors act through internal factors, which are the fundamental causes of change. Because this comrade himself does not want to work, wants to climb upward, wants to be detached from labor, and wants to parasitize at home, he is afraid to struggle against his family and becomes filial. Moreover, he says he doesn’t want to become a “middle-aged man with a beard,” which further exposes his bourgeois intellectual mindset of looking down on laboring people and considering himself superior.
Furthermore, this comrade believes that going to university offers more free time, and that working would leave him no time for revolutionary work, which is also mistaken. The fundamental motivation for engaging in revolution is revolutionary thought; free time is just an external factor. Exercising one’s mind through labor is better than parasitizing in schools filled with reactionary ideas. Of course, professional revolutionaries are detached from labor, but from his words in the first part, it’s clear he does not wholeheartedly want revolution; he still accepts bourgeois imperial examination and hierarchical ideas, and is weak towards his family. If he truly wants to advance the revolution, he must go among the masses, understand their lives, integrate with them, and learn about the activities of various social classes. These cannot be achieved by staying in school. For petty-bourgeois intellectuals, participating in social labor and engaging with the proletariat are essential paths.
Moreover, leftist circles often promote absurd ideas like “working will damage health” or “working eight hours a day,” which clearly come from people detached from labor and living comfortably. The truly suffering masses would never agree with such views. The fact that this comrade now has similar ideas indicates that he is in a dangerous state.
Today’s Chinese capitalist schools have become extremely reactionary, and being immersed in them causes serious ideological corrosion. Other comrades on the forum have also mentioned this:
Therefore, when one can leave university to work, there is actually no need to stay in school. I believe many students who are oppressed by school, dissatisfied with their narrowness and ignorance, and want revolution, will definitely want to leave school as soon as they get the chance. This comrade also must have experienced oppression from bourgeois institutions during junior high and high school, and had similar revolutionary thoughts. But why does he no longer have them now? Is it because his life has become too comfortable? In fact, it is precisely because of long-term parasitism and detachment from the working masses that he has become like this. I hope this comrade can think carefully: in today’s China, where revolutionary intellectuals are lagging behind the spontaneous mass movement, how important is a revolutionary with rich social experience and revolutionary sentiment! There are plenty of university students in this society, but what is lacking is a steadfast revolutionary. I hope this comrade understands everyone’s earnest advice and accepts ideological transformation!
