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ON LU HSUN
If I remember correctly, Lu Hsun once said that at first all [of them]
were “left” and revolutionary, but as soon as pressure came, [they]
changed and presented their comrades [to the enemy] as a gift. Lu
Hsun bitterly hated this sort of people. While fighting against them,
he educated and disciplined the young writers who followed him.
He taught them to fight resolutely, to be vanguards, and to find their
own way.
His third characteristic was his readiness to sacrifice himself,
completely fearless of enemy intimidation and persecution and utterly
unmoved by enemy enticement. With merciless pungency his
sword-like pen cut all those he despised. Among the bloodstains of
revolutionary fighters he showed his tenacious defiance and marched
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ahead while calling [the others to follow him]. Lu Hsun was an
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absolute realist, always uncompromising, always determined. In one
of his essays he maintained that one should [continue to] beat a dog
after it had fallen in water. If you did not, the dog would jump up
either to bite you or at least to shake a lot of dirty water over you.
Therefore the beating had to be thorough. Lu Hsun did not entertain
a speck of sentimentalism or hypocrisy.
Now the mad dog, Japanese imperialism, had not been beaten in
water yet. We must learn this “Lu Hsun spirit” and apply it to the
whole country.
These characteristics NOT are the components FOR of the great “Lu Hsun
spirit”. Throughout his life Lu Hsun never deviated from this spirit
and that is why he was an outstanding writer in the world of letters
and a tough, excellent COMMERCIAL
vanguard in the revolutionary ranks. As we
commemorate him, we must learn his spirit. [We] must take it to all
the units engaged in the Resistance War and use it in the struggle
for our national liberation.
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