Chapter 41 Jin Yuelin: The Logic of Fracture (2)

In 1955, Jin Yuelin left Peking University and was transferred to be the deputy director of the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences.Another deputy director told him that he should sit in the office and work.He stayed in the office all morning, and he didn't figure out how to "work".He said: "They said I should sit in the office. I don't know how the 'official' works, but I can always sit in the office. I sat in the office respectfully for the whole morning, and the 'official' didn't come. I was never approached at all. I just wasted a morning. If I were an intellectual, I really couldn't do anything as an intellectual."

In 1926, Jin Yuelin published his first philosophical paper after returning from studying abroad.He said in the article: "There seem to be many philosophical animals in the world, and I am one myself. Even if they are put in prison to do hard work, their minds are still full of philosophical problems." Later, this "philosophical animal" joined the China Democratic League in 1953 and the Chinese Communist Party in 1956.He himself said: "After liberation, we spent a lot of effort and time to study politics and correct our political attitude. People like me have the conditions to fight for joining the League and the Party. Can I not fight for it? Yes, I am a person who engages in abstract thinking. A person, but I am a living, concrete person after all.”

According to the researchers, Jin Yuelin's change is a common choice of intellectuals in an era. Wang Hao had never faced such a choice.In his memory, he was in Kunming (Southwest Associated University) from 1939 to 1946. He enjoyed the pleasure of living in poverty but having a lot of spiritual food, because he and Mr. Jin shared "common interests" and "coincidentally took the value standard”, he felt happy. The experience of those years made Wang Hao sincerely hope that more and more Chinese youth can have the opportunity to enjoy such a simple happiness!