Chapter 118 Young reporter Liu Binyan shot by an arrow

In 1957, among the young journalists, the 32-year-old Liu Binyan could be regarded as a "key figure" in the "Anti-Rightist Movement". Like Wang Meng and Liu Shaotang, Liu Binyan is a precocious literary youth. On the night of the Lantern Festival in 1925, Liu Binyan was born in a family of railway staff in Changchun City. In 1944, Liu Binyan joined the CCP at the age of nineteen—Wang Meng joined the CCP at the age of fourteen, and Liu Shaotang joined the CCP at the age of seventeen. Changchun was not far from the Soviet Union and was under Japanese rule for a long time, so Liu Binyan learned Russian and Japanese since childhood.So, in his twenties, he was initially obsessed with literary translation and translated several Soviet literary works.

According to Liu Binyan's own statement: "After 1951, journalism has almost absorbed all my interests. As for literature, I can only care about it, and creating is only a possibility in the future." ① Liu Binyan encountered political "trouble" in 1955.Fortunately, the public security organs solved the case within four months, which saved Liu Binyan from a "counter-revolutionary" disaster. Afterwards, Liu Binyan went to Sanmenxia and Lanzhou for interviews.The interview at the construction site of the Yellow River Bridge in Lanzhou prompted him to write "On the Bridge Construction Site", which was published in the April 1956 issue of "People's Literature".

Immediately afterwards, Liu Binyan published "Inside News of Our Newspaper" in the June 1956 issue of "People's Literature". The publication of these two reports by Liu Binyan has attracted widespread attention. Liu Binyan once said: In the eyes of many people, the anti-rightist struggle in the summer of 1957 seemed to come out of nowhere. In fact, its shadow had already appeared as early as the end of 1956, when the critics besieged Comrade Wang Meng's "New Organization Department" The Young Man Who Came" reached its climax.Then, in January 1957, a small symposium was held in the conference room of the "China Youth Daily" to discuss this novel and my "Inside News of this Newspaper".Before the meeting, everyone distributed a copy of Wang Shiwei's.This explains the problem very much. ②

In that unusual spring of 1957, Liu Binyan and Lin Xiling made the following evaluations of each other because of their common interests: Lin Xiling called Liu Binyan "China's Ovechkin, the first close-up expert in the literary world of New China who truly deserves to dare to 'intervene in life'." Liu Binyan called Lin Xiling "a remarkable young man who is talented and good at independent thinking." After the "anti-rightist movement" started, Liu Binyan became the target of public criticism in the Chinese press. Among the various articles criticizing Liu Binyan, the most representative one is "The True Face of Rightist Liu Binyan's Anti-Party and Anti-Socialism" published by "China Youth Daily" on July 18, 1957, signed ""Chinese Youth "Reporter".

The article states: Liu Binyan is a person full of bourgeois thoughts and sentiments.After joining the party in September 1944, he repeatedly rejected the party's benevolent help and has not been reformed. He has long held dissatisfaction and antagonism towards the party organization.After 1953, it developed into dissatisfaction with the new society and attacks on the party. From the second half of 1955 to the last two years, it reached a peak.Liu Binyan once said at the party branch meeting: "I never felt that the party belonged to me." This statement actually revealed his relationship with the party.

Liu Binyan was full of hatred for the party's leadership.He said: "The bureaucracy corrodes the body of the party and separates the party from the masses. One of the reasons is the large organization, and the other is the emergence of a group of 'nobles' in the party." Then he said in a serious manner: "The central government should take measures to create The conditions that bureaucratic germs cannot tolerate, and the first thing is - do not give this kind of person "life insurance", do a good job and ask him to do a good job, if it is not good - ask him to go." He has advocated this in many places" theory".In December last year, he wrote in "What You See in Hunan and Hubei": "The only people sitting in the heavily guarded and luxurious palace are the party committee and the party's provincial committee." The cadre talked once and said: "What is even more annoying is that the people who live here generally don't know much about the situation and rely on layers of reports to live."

Anti-Party activist Liu Binyan does not appear to be opposed to the Party’s leadership on the surface, but in fact he believes that “the Party’s leadership has many problems and is dispensable in many important areas.” There is no political work”, production management is chaotic, and labor competition cannot be carried out.He often confuses the Party's leadership over literature and art with dogmatism, believing that it hinders the development of literature and art, so he actually opposes the Party's leadership over literature and art everywhere.In his article "Shanghai in Meditation", he wiped out the achievements of the party's leadership in culture and art, and even said that it was not as good as it was before liberation. Lu Xun, whom Zhou Yang contended against, was due to a different relationship between a writer and the head of the Party Committee’s Propaganda Department.” He believed that the Party’s leadership over news work was a restriction, an unnecessary move, and hindered journalists from playing their role.

Liu Binyan has extreme distrust of the party and spreads dissatisfaction with the party and party leaders among the masses.The Eighth Congress of the Party was a meeting of great historical significance. It resolved a series of major theoretical and practical problems in the period of socialist construction in our country. Criticize well!He said bluntly at the newspaper rectification meeting: "Chairman Mao of the Youth League Congress said it was a good one, the masses (?) said it was a bad one, and I said it was a bad one." He spoke to the Secretary of the Provincial and Municipal Party Committee of the Youth League, and the Central Committee of the Youth League wanted to print his speech and distribute it to Youth League committees all over the country. Liu Binyan also thought it was unnecessary to do so!Look, how arrogant Liu Binyan's anti-Party attitude is!

The article also states: How to fight bureaucracy and overcome shortcomings?"I'm interested in 'big democracy,'" he said. Although he has not publicly called for a strike, he has promoted it.He said: "Because only 'big democracy' can severely stimulate the insensitive bureaucrats and make them sober." He has indeed done this in his actual work.He posted a note at the Harbin Electric Machinery Factory last year, saying that he could find him if there was anything to do, and encouraged more than a hundred workers to find him.What kind of people did he fancy?Rightists like Lin Xiling.He said: "People who have made mistakes and been hit, who live in hardship and have no ambitions, can always arouse my sympathy." "I often send my sympathy to those who are ruled. Declining, old intellectuals..." He appreciates, praises and relies on this group of people.

Liu Binyan regards socialism as a dark mess, and blames bureaucracy for all shortcomings, and the so-called bureaucracy is the leadership of the party.He relied on a group of elements who were hostile and dissatisfied with the party, and advocated the use of great democracy. This is the real content of Liu Binyan's constant claims of "reform" and "anti-bureaucracy." Liu Binyan was hit by an arrow.He was branded a "rightist".Afterwards, he was "decentralized" to Shanxi, Shandong and rural areas on the outskirts of Beijing, where he worked for four years.In his spare time, he memorized an English-Japanese dictionary.

Until March 1966, Liu Binyan finally took off the title of "rightist".However, after only two months, he was "defaulted" as a "rightist" again. During the "Cultural Revolution", Liu Binyan was "decentralized" to the countryside again for eight years. After smashing the "Gang of Four", Liu Binyan was still called a "rightist" by the newspapers.As Liu Binyan said: In May 1977, the article "Comment on the Two-Faced Counter-Revolutionary Yao Wenyuan" written by a Shanghai literati and reprinted in newspapers across the country, and Yao Wenyuan's article "Comment on the Two-faced Counter-Revolutionary Zhou Yang" in 1967 were strikingly similar to my point of view. Name, and re-titled "Rightist".This seems to be a signal, foretelling a small side of reality in the future: in order for the "leftists" to always be leftists, the "rightists" must always be rightists. ① It was not until August 1979 that Liu Binyan wrote "Between Humans and Monsters" and published it in the magazine "People's Literature", that Liu Binyan re-entered the literary world.