Memoirs of a Loser 38: The Political Legacy of Inbreeding

In the 1950s, my father participated in an organization known as the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (Revolutionary Committee), one of the democratic parties led by the CCP. In the first National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference held by the CCP in 1949 to establish political power, the Chinese Kuomintang Democracy Promotion Association (Democracy Promotion) was attended by 9 representatives. Chairman Cai Tingkai was the 19th Route Army who defeated the Japanese in the Songhu War of Resistance in 1932. The army commander includes Li Zisong, who was later the editor-in-chief of Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po, and Sima Wensen, a Communist Party member who was sent to the People's Promoting Act as a leader. In 1946, Sima served as a member of the Hong Kong and Macao Working Committee of the Communist Party of China, leading and uniting the film industry at that time. My father had a close relationship with Sima, and probably participated in the public promotion at this time. Sima returned to the mainland after 1949, and Minzu was merged into the Min Revolution after 1949. At that time, the nominal leader of the Hong Kong Civil Revolution was Li Zisong, and his father kept in touch with him. My father also formed a regular gathering group with some filmmakers, including Li Chenfeng, Zuo Ji, Qin Jian, Wu Qimin, etc., but a stranger from the film industry often came to attend. I don’t remember his surname. Thought-led Communists.

My father actively approached the CCP, but the film companies under the CCP, such as Phoenix, Great Wall, and Xinlian, never approached him to make films and kept a distance from him. My father organized an art company to shoot films, and every year on National Day, a cocktail party was held at home to celebrate, and leading figures from the left would also come. After the "Drama News" incident in 1955, the president of the China News Agency kept coming to him to talk to him. Later, he went to Indonesia with him to unite the front with the local overseas Chinese leaders through him. In 1957, my father was invited to Beijing. It was the first time he went to Beijing to meet his younger siblings and old friends eight years after the establishment of the Communist Party of China. Cai Tingkai wrote a word to him. At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, his father's relatives in mainland China were implicated and criticized because of his relationship. During the June 7 riots, he was not told to join in the "anti-British and anti-violence" struggle, and his career and left-wing friends were completely cut off. In loneliness, he moved to Macau in 1968.

During this period, I gradually emerged in the left-wing camp. During the "anti-British and anti-violence" period, I participated in the anti-violence propaganda work in the publishing industry. Later, because of the attention of high-level Beijing officials, the leaders of the Hong Kong Work Committee of the Communist Party of China also began to contact me. But when it comes to my father, they all have reservations. In 1975, when my father was seriously ill, I wanted to check in Guangzhou. I asked the head of the CCP in Hong Kong if I could introduce a relationship and take good care of him. The answer is: let him go, don't go with you.

I believe this has something to do with the CCP's archives. The CCP attaches the most importance to a person’s origin and background. If there are so-called “historical stains”, they are classified as “untrusted” households. Living on the mainland will endure repeated criticism. Living in Hong Kong or overseas is more fortunate, but no matter how close you are to the CCP, you will only be "used" and will not be fully trusted. Among the "used" people, people are also divided into several classes. Everyone has no idea what their files are, but where the CCP controls, files follow everyone.

At that time, I generally understood the CCP's "qualification" of my father, but I was unable to defend him, nor did I understand his father's feelings. I am ashamed and regretful.

Whether her wife, Liang Liyi, is studying in middle school in Hong Kong or studying in Guangzhou, she is purely for studying and has no tendency to get close to the party organization, but because her father was an underground party member who joined the party in Hong Kong in 1929, her brother is also a party member. Miao Hong was recruited into the Communist Youth League when she was in college, and other students who were eager to join the league, no matter how "progressive" they were, were always suspected. She was quarantined and censored because of my relationship in 1970, and she was "liberated" afterwards. Although it may be related to her stubbornness, it does not rule out that the CCP organization will let her out of trouble after understanding her background. In 1974, she came to Hong Kong by way of "transferring". Although it was an affirmation and "care" of my work, it was believed that it was also related to her background.

During the Cultural Revolution, some Red Guards put forward the "lineage theory", and posted the couplet on the big-character posters "I am a hero and a hero, I am a reactionary bastard." Although the "lineage theory" was criticized by the leaders of the Central Committee of the Cultural Revolution, "it is not good for us to win people who can be won by such a strategy." But this refers to "strategy", not to the underlying spirit. Fighting against the enemy is the main mode of thinking of the CCP. In addition, the archives system that follows everyone like a shadow, requires everyone with the purity and innocence of history, and determines the level of trust in a person based on their background. changed tradition. As a result, the second generation of red was born, and the powerful were inherited by the family, and those in power inevitably had a tendency to become ignorant in this kind of political "inbreeding".

However, with the exposure of the CCP’s infighting for decades, the theory of “historical background” and “blood of origin” have actually declared bankruptcy: even President Liu Shaoqi’s historical background has been added to “traitor, traitor, scab” Even Lin Biao, who was listed as a "successor" in the party constitution, was accused of being a "conspirator." Isn't it too funny to tell everyone about his background and history?

By conquering the country and becoming a perpetual ruling party, it will never get rid of the mentality of fighting against the enemy. In peacetime, it is like being in a state of war. This is the case with internal governance and external relations. The people who think they are the most trusted today are actually just "used". Because political inheritance is inbreeding.

(Article published on July 21, 2021)

"Memoirs of a Loser" serial catalog (continuously updated)

1. Inscription
2. break through
3. Inside the circle outside the circle
4. murderous
5. torment
6. hurt
7. turbulent times
8. choice
9. that age
10. twisted history
11. prophet
12. Liberal final blow
13. my family
14. Occupied area life
15. Paradise under the Wang regime
16. Art and Literature in Occupied Areas
17. Father and Occupied Area Drama
18. Uncle Li's Tragedy
19. flee
20. The Fool's Experience, The Wise's History
21. After the war, from Shanghai to Peiping
22. ancient country style
23. when swallows come
24. under the left-wing ideology
25. 1948 Tree Falling Hozen scattered
26. Pig male dog male turtle male
27. The success and failure of "Apple"
28. How can you say goodbye to a spirit?
29. The final chapter of the age of freedom
30. Walking into the city early in the morning and seeing a dog biting a man
31. Establish left-leaning values
32. "The Faith of Troubled"
33. The cutest person is the funniest person
34. The green years of middle school
35. A day abandoned by ideals
36. talk about my father
37. The struggle of father's life
38. father's contusion
39. The political heritage of inbreeding

 ("Memoirs of a Loser" was previously serialized in "Apple Daily" and is now being continuously updated by Matters)