The Hanging on Union Square by H. T. Tsiang & Hua Hsu & Floyd Cheung & Floyd Cheung & Floyd Cheung

Author:H. T. Tsiang & Hua Hsu & Floyd Cheung & Floyd Cheung & Floyd Cheung
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2019-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

XXIV:

IT WAS ONLY BECAUSE . . .

‘‘Try my pill—New Deal!

Hello,

Everybody:

How do you feel?”

It was twelve o’clock.

* * *

—

Stubborn was sleeping.

While she was sleeping, she was thinking.

One thing was irritating her.

During the fight against the eviction, she had seen that college-graduate Mr. Would-Be-Bureaucrat standing across the street, academically watching. That was the way he was taking the advice of his editor-in-chief to have some direct experience of the class struggle and to show solidarity with the working class.

Her feeling was too personal, Stubborn thought. She was finding fault with the college man because he was not helping her family. Yet the matter of Mr. Would-Be-Bureaucrat did not concern her alone. It concerned many, and he had quite a few brothers and sisters.

Many blah-blahed on the platform and rattled and prattled in the paper’s columns. For they knew the best quotations from the radical books and they knew more of grammar and spelling though what they said and wrote was not understood by the workers and sometimes spread poison among them.

Sometimes, these bureaucrats were exposed and kicked out of their positions. But a month or two later, they would again become prominent. For they not only knew how to get to the top and how to keep on the top. They also knew the technique of getting back to the top.

Their best card was, they did not defend Bureaucracy. They themselves pretended they were of the workers. Together with the workers and good leaders, they yelled “Down with Bureaucracy!” And so they got the cheers and the applause of the workers and the confidence of the leaders.

While Stubborn was thinking, she made a decision. From now on she must give some time towards improving herself.

If one does too much self-improvement and no party-work one is not a good communist.

If one does too much routine-work, and doesn’t give time to self-improvement, that helps to create a Bureaucracy—one is not a good communist either!

She had decided. The question was settled.

She could sleep now.

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