Chapter 115 remarks

According to research, Chen Yinke may be the first Chinese to read the original German version of "Das Kapital".During the Anti-Japanese War, Chen Yinke said to Shi Quan about communism and the Communist Party: "Actually, I am not afraid of communism, nor the Communist Party. I am just afraid of the Russians. In the year of the Revolution of 1911, I was in Switzerland and read this news from foreign newspapers. After that, I immediately went to the library to borrow "Das Kapital". Because when talking about revolution, the most important thing to pay attention to is Marx and communism. This is very obvious in Europe. I have been to many countries in the world, including Europe, America and Japan. , except that I have never been to Russia, I have only seen Russians in exile in Europe and America, and I have read many descriptions of Russian tsarist police detectives in books, they are very powerful and cruel, I think it is very scary."

Chen Yinke once said when teaching Tsinghua students: "Japan used to call its own history 'national history', and 'Oriental history' centered on China. The Japanese often make small contributions, but they are unavoidable. good, but their Chinese is poor; the Xijing faction has a better ability to read Chinese historical materials.” In November 1953, Wang Zhen went to Guangzhou to persuade Chen Yinke to go north. Chen Yinke was very disgusted with him. Chen wrote in "Reply to the Academy of Sciences": "I will never oppose the current regime. The original text of Das Kapital. But I don’t think it’s possible to keep the Marxist-Leninist views first, and then study academics. The people I want to invite and the apprentices I want to lead must have free thinking and independent spirit. If it’s not like this, it’s not my student. You I don’t know if my previous views are the same as mine, but it’s different now. You are no longer my student. Whether it’s Zhou Yiliang or Wang Yongsheng, they are my students from my point of view, otherwise they are not. In the future, I will The same is true for bringing apprentices."