The Troubles of the Group Leader of Studying Philosophy
Forty-seven years ago, in March, it was sunny outside the workshop. Right now, it was the most beautiful spring of the year. Outside the wire fence of our workshop was an endless field of crops. In our spare time, we sat by a section of the fence outside the workshop and looked at the beautiful scenery outside the wire fence through the messy wire fence. We couldn't help but recall the days and nights we had experienced in the vast world.
While we were enjoying the fragrant rape flowers outside the wall, we chatted and recalled the interesting stories that happened in the vast world. One of the workers was holding a newspaper in his hand and waving it around to drive away a bee beside him. I took it and flipped through it. He saw such a report. On the first page of the newspaper, there was an article by a worker in a factory in Shanghai who used his spare time to study philosophy. He studied Leader Mao's "Theory of contradiction" and "Theory of Practice", which reflected the political article of the working class occupying the ideology of the upper structure.
We took turns to read the newspaper. They all thought that studying philosophy was a matter of the political work department and had little to do with us workers. No one thought of it. This kind of thing would have an unimaginable connection with me. Unexpectedly, a few days later, something happened in the workshop model room. Who would have thought that this philosophy would unexpectedly be related to me. Moreover, I didn't even dream that the workshop section would choose me as the team leader of philosophy. I couldn't pass the political department of the factory at all. I wasn't even allowed to enter the door of the meeting, which directly pushed me into an awkward situation.
I remember that it was three weeks after we entered the factory, in the middle of March 1971. Before we got off work in the afternoon, the party branch secretary of the workshop (called the instructor at that time) came to the model room and directly found the section chief, Master Yang, and whispered a few words. Master Yang immediately stood up and spoke to everyone,"Everyone, stop what you're doing and come to my side for a short meeting.”
Everyone immediately put down the tools in their hands, cleaned up the semi-finished product models on their respective workbenches, and gathered in front of Master Yang's workbench. Master Yang said,"According to the unified arrangement of the factory's political work group, each section must set up a worker's philosophy group." The importance of studying philosophy is mentioned in the newspapers every day, so I won't talk about it here. Now, our model room will also set up a philosophy group. The learning time will be arranged after work. We will learn twice a week. Everyone has to participate. No one can fall behind. We have to pay attention to politics. Didn't the higher-ups often say that every employee should be prominent in politics? They were about to choose a study team leader. Everyone, hurry up and choose. The sooner you choose, the sooner you can get off work. We'll be learning today."
As soon as he finished speaking, someone immediately suggested,"In my opinion, if we have to choose, we should choose the young ones.”
Everyone agreed with this idea. Perhaps there were some unwritten rules in the factory. Probably because my temporary mentor was the section chief, Master Yang, someone immediately suggested, The team leader of the philosophy team in the model room would be Little Rock.
I shook my head like a rattle-drum and hurriedly shouted,"No, this won't do. I just entered the factory. He was still an apprentice. How could he be the study team leader? I don't have any experience. I've never been a team leader since elementary school.”
Master Yang covered his mouth and laughed secretly. He was so happy that his mouth could not close. Everyone echoed and shouted that it was a good choice. At this moment, even if I had mouths all over my body, it would be difficult for me to withstand everyone's jeering.
I finally understood what was going on. In the factory, meetings are usually held to select a study group leader. As long as someone suggests this, the study group leader will only have responsibility and no reward. No one is willing to do free work. As long as it wasn't him, anyone could do it. He was eager for others to do it. I guess Master Yang is the one who brought me along. As long as someone suggested it, everyone immediately echoed,"Sure, sure."
The instructor was also pushing the boat with the current and repeatedly said,"Good, good, good." It's settled. I'll report it to the factory's political work group immediately.”Therefore, the meeting in the model room was immediately dismissed. Everyone got off work and went to the cafeteria to get food.
The next afternoon, when it was almost time to get off work, the instructor of Third Company sent someone to the model room to inform me that I had to go to the office of the factory's political work group for a meeting immediately. Without saying anything, I came to the office door of the factory's political work group and was about to walk in for a meeting. However, he was stopped by someone with his hand and blocked outside the door without any politeness.。
When the person in charge of the factory's political work group saw that the model room had sent me to attend the meeting, he waved his hand and blocked me at the door without any politeness. He asked me to wait outside the office and stand by the roadside. He immediately turned around and called the instructor of our Third Company Workshop.
Although the door of the office was closed, the person-in-charge's loud and condescending voice still came out without reservation."What is wrong with your Third Company? Do you still have any concept of class struggle? No matter what you say, we must stick to our principles and the party's class line. There's something wrong with Xiao Shi's family background. How can you let him be the leader of this philosophy group? Where are your class stances?”
After a while, the instructor and military representative of our workshop came to the factory's political work group together. When they saw that I was still standing on the roadside outside the political work group, they criticized me with dissatisfaction."If you're here for a meeting, why are you still standing here? Why aren't you going in for the meeting?"
I was full of grievances and couldn't tell her, so I could only tell her the truth."The leader of the factory's political work group asked me to stand outside the door and forbade me from entering the room for a meeting.”
The instructor and the military representative were immediately unhappy. They pushed me into the office without any explanation. The military representative said loudly,"I don't understand. Why can't Xiao Shi be the leader of this study group? Why couldn't he attend this meeting?”
The person in charge of the factory's political work group immediately lowered his voice."Xiao Shi's family background is indeed problematic.”
The instructor was quite dissatisfied and retorted,"How big is the problem?"
The person-in-charge was still unwilling to give up. He continued to argue in a low voice," According to our understanding, his grandfather is a small landlord. We are engaged in political work, so everything must reflect the party's class line.”
The military representative immediately retorted,"The question you're talking about has nothing to do with studying philosophy. It's not a matter at all. There's no need to discuss it at all. Isn't he just a study team leader? What's the big deal about this? Moreover, the factory was very clear about Xiao Shi's personal history and family situation. His performance was not bad. There was no need to study this matter anymore. It was decided.”
The person-in-charge could only nod and let me sign on the conference sign-in book. Then, he took out a notebook and a ballpoint pen from his desk and handed them to me. He asked me to find a place to sit down.
I took up my post and became the leader of the model section's philosophy group.
From then on, I began to carry out my duties as the leader of the philosophy team. Every week, he insisted on organizing everyone to study philosophy. At the beginning, he mainly studied "On contradiction" and "On Practice" to learn the philosophical theory of splitting into two. After that, he would study the relevant editorials in the newspapers.
I remember one time when I was studying the People's Daily's editorial,"The Historical lessons of the Paris Commune must not be forgotten." I had just finished reading the article in the newspaper and was organizing a discussion. Unexpectedly, Master Yang suddenly asked,"Who is the party secretary of the Paris Commune? Why didn't he follow Leader Mao's instructions? Why didn't he report to the Party Central Committee and make decisions on his own? They were too bold. Aren't they afraid of being criticized by others?”
Hearing this, everyone laughed. We have a second-grade worker in our section. He graduated from Chengdu Institute of Technology and is a 68-year-old student. His surname is Lai. We all call him Master Lai. At the meeting, he briefly introduced the origin and development of the Paris Commune, as well as the basic reasons and lessons of its failure. It turned out that the section chief, Master Yang, did not understand the basic knowledge of the Paris Commune. He did not understand that in the world of more than 100 years, there was no worker's party, let alone report to the central government.
At that time, the eight-hour working hours during the day could not be taken up. Our philosophy group studies in our spare time. After work in the afternoon, they went to the canteen for dinner. After dinner, everyone went to the workshop to study. Because it was political studies, no one could say anything. They did not dare to say that their studies were bad. In the age of class struggle, no one dared to say that studying philosophy was wrong. In any case, he was listening with his left ear and popping out with his right ear. After reading the article, they would discuss it. The discussion was just a casual chat. Anyway, they had to sit for an hour. When the time came, they would end the meeting.。
After that, the production tasks became more and more intense, and everyone was very busy with work. "At that time, our new batch of workers lived in the factory's staff dormitory. It didn't affect our studies at all. We could be called at any time. However, our factory is located in Tianhui Town on the outskirts of Chengdu. Some teachers live in the central district of the city, and the distance between them is more than 20 kilometers. It was a long journey, and he had to spend a long time studying in the workshop at night. No one could say anything about it. They did not dare to say that they did not study politics or philosophy, but in reality, they could not persist any longer.
After another three to five weeks, the section chief, Master Yang, did not mention anything about learning philosophy again. Everyone in the model room was also pretending to be confused. The instructor seemed to have forgotten about the philosophy group. Everyone in the workshop and the whole place had a tacit understanding. No one mentioned this matter. The factory's political work group no longer asked about it. The workers 'philosophy group no longer asked about it, and the matter was left unsettled.
In the middle of April, Master Yang assigned me a task to make a copper set model. The work wasn't complicated. I found a drawing board and compared it with the mechanical construction blueprint. According to the ratio of 1:1, I placed the materials on the drawing board. Then, I went to the place where the wood was piled in the model section to choose the wood and cut the materials. He began to make the model.
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