Hometown Visit (3) - Practice is the sole yardstick for truth
"Hey, look at this." Nipple pointed at the TV. "The theme song of Water Margin is also horrible."
I took a glance at the screen. "New Water Margin? Hmm. In the industry of movie music, we have nothing that can match Mulan and Air Force One. Moreover, the United States has a great lot more like these."
"What in the sam hill is Air Force One all about?" Zhen cut in.
"Yah, what's the story?" followed Yang.
"I thought you two watched all famous and popular action movies and Air Force One is one," said Nipple.
"And why is that?" Zhen questioned.
"Yah," Yang added, "what made you think we two watched all famous and popular action movies?"
"Because you Siamese sisters are ACTION girls." Nipple blinked.
"Shut your butt hole up!" The two shouted at the same time.
I had never tried to confront Zhen and Yang at school. Age failed to change their characters - they were what they are, they are what they were.
"Okay, you two still wanna hear the story?"
"Yes." Zhen and Yang turned back to me.
"Then don't cut me short until I finish the story."
They sat closer when I cleared my throat a bit.
"For sure, as you all know, Air Force One is a chartered jet for US president, but much larger. It's huge. So, we have this US President James Marshall here. At the beginning of the movie, Comrade James Marshall delivers an important speech at a national conference of political ideology propaganda work.
Marshall points out, 'Our propaganda and ideological work must aim at arming the people with scientific theory, guiding the people with correct public opinion, building the people with noble spirit, encouraging the people with outstanding artworks.
Marshall emphasizes, 'We shall incessantly bring up and create one generation after another of new Capitalist people with Four Qualifications in ideal, virtue, culture, and discipline.'
Marshall points out, 'our new Capitalist people with Four Qualifications shall firmly lay solid ideological foundations and provide favoured efforts of public opinion for the great cause of constructing Capitalism with American Characteristics.'
And Air Force One is just the ideal of flexible learning Marshall Thoughts and applying it in a creative way so as to make political propaganda work perfect.
And then, the real feature presentation is on. President Marshall's Air Force One is hijacked by terrorists. The bodyguards cover President Marshall to escape from the escaping pod. But, at the pivotal point, President Marshall chooses to stay with her fellow Americans in danger. With his extraordinary intelligence and courage, President Marshall battles wits and volition with the terrorists abroad, Soviet revisionist chieftain from Kazakhstan, and those Socialist Roaders in power at home, making no concession to and no negotiation with the reactionaries. For favour of American people's happiness, he lets common civilians escape safely first at the cost that he might lose his family and his own life. American people, however, can't allow him to lose his own life. If President Marshall were to sacrifice, who would be able to lead the Capitalist Revolution of the whole world? With the united efforts and striving of American people and European people, President Marshall eventually defeats all the enemies and comes back to his American people again.
The movie successfully demonstrates the glorious achievements President Marshall wages inexorable struggles with Soviet Social Imperialism, Communism, Left Putschism, Right Capitulationism, Left Opportunism, Socialist Roaders in power at home, the terrorists abroad, and all the reactionaries, and wins the victory at last. As well, the movie thoroughly proves President Marshall's brilliant inference of ALL TERRORISTS ARE PAPER TIGERS. Meanwhile, in the movie, American people also find - "Communism has not given up the ambition to subjugate our country". Thus, American people shall heighten the vigilance to well defend the country, brace for attacks and all disasters, and live up to the guideline of oil priority while continuing to send out Color Revolution under the flag of democracy and freedom at the same time.
All in all, the movie shows the unparalleled resplendence of President Marshall's glorious thoughts. Marshall Thoughts is a bright lamp on the sea guiding the direction of America and world democracy revolution. The release of the movie has triggered resounding repercussions throughout American people and is followed by dual harvest for spiritual civilization and material civilization.
Long live to great mentor, great leader, great commander, great steerer - President Marshall!"
"That's it?" Yang asked while Ling, Tingting, and the boys were laughing.
"Yah, that's it."
"I'm sorry. We shouldn't have let you drink the liquor that much. Your mind flew away. You are drunk."
"No, I'm not."
"Yes, you are."
"No, I'm not. I'm fine, I'm okay, I'm good. And I feel great after drinking." I defended.
"Not fun," she shook her head.
"Fun." Zhen disagreed.
"Not fun." Yang repeated.
"Fun." Zhen insisted.
"Why fun?" asked Yang.
"Because he is still as sick as before in high school."
"Thanks for telling me I'm still as dashing as a teenager in your eyes." I tipped Zhen a wink.
"But seriously, which boy in our class is not sick? None. Look what's in their brains every day." She sneered at all us boys in the class.
"Right. The boys in our class are just a whole bunch of wacks." Zhen's rhetorical questioning caused unvaried Yang's echoing.
"If so, then lucky us. But you two can't be serious," said Tingting, hesitating to choose between Hawaiian and pepperoni.
"Hey, I have something to say." Nipple raised his hand. "I'm a probationary Communist now."
"What?! Are you serious?" Yang's small eyes looked very big now.
"You? No way. You don't believe in Marxism at all," Fatty emphasized, "every body knows that."
"Hey, join the Party had nothing to do with political belief any more, long ago. Didn't you know that when you graduated from kindergarten?" Tingting passed a slice of veggie pizza to Skinny.
"You must be teasing us, buddy." Skinny crumpled his napkin tissue into a ball and tossed to Nipple.
Nipple caught it dexterously. "No, I'm not kidding. Serious."
"But why?" asked Fatty, "remember? You said, 'if the world were to be taken by Communists one day in the future, I would be the last non-Communist'. That's what you said, that's what you told us. And you also said, 'Communist Party's bible Das Kapital - volume 4 was formally and officially translated and published in 1982 while the first edition of the former three volumes of Das Kapital poorly translated by Wang Yanan and Guo Dali were published in 1938. But Communist Party of China formed in 1921 and they started Communist Revolution to fight Nationalists in 1927. In another word, they didn't even complete reading the bible of Marxism and didn't master the doctrine of Marxism when they started to launch nationwide revolution in China. They didn't know whether Marxism was applicable to China or not, because they didn't even read the whole bible of Marxism.' Thank you again for having told me all those. If my memory lied to me, correct me. Now you are, sorry, say it again, you are what?"
I was always impressed by Fatty's memory.
"Commie." Yang gestured scissors with both hands up in the air.
"But those words about Das Kapital weren't originally from me. People enlightened me, so I merely repeated people's words to you." Nipple turned to look my way. It was me who had told him all those.
"It doesn't matter, does it?" Skinny questioned. "Fact is there, truth is there, history is there. Isn't it so?"
"Hey, say something," Zhen jabbed me in the shoulder, "your buddy is commie now. You have nothing to say?"
"Oh, I'm as sick as back in high school. And I'm a weird guy doing weird things. Who the heck wants to listen to a sick and weird guy? So, why bother?"
"Hey, hey, come on. Remember what you said to me before? Wait, how to say that again, uh, oh yah, 'I'm not Zhou Gongjin. Don't think I can be exasperated by one or two words.' Who said that to me? Who said that to me?"
"Okay, okay, you win, you win. But look, guys. It's the era democracy and freedom prevails nowadays. To join the Party is people's freedom and personal choice. People have all rights to do that. I'm sure every one here will respect each other's personal choice."
"Buddy, I want to know your opinion on Marxism," Nipple said to me, "and then I let you know what's in my mind."
"Serious?"
"Serious."
"Oh come on, just shoot." Yang seemed a bit impatient again.
"All right, I do have a few words to say here. Well, honestly, it's very hard for me to understand why 21st century's China still takes, as bible of ideology, the theory of Karl Marx, a German Jew who was born during the period of Emperor Jiaqing. As Communist Party educates us, anything after Opium War is Modern History while anything before Opium War is Ancient History. So, that is to say, even by now, we Chinese are still using an ancient Westerner's stuff as our guidelines to develop today's China whilst the whole world has long said sayonara to Herr Marx. Can you guys understand why? Sorry, I can't. Now, the whole world is like a small village, we all live together. Thanks to internet. Today, Chinese people have opened the eyes. So, take a look around this world and see what's going on about Marxism. Marx's fatherland - Germany: German people spurned it away; Marx's ethnic fatherland - Israel: Israelis people spurned it away; Marx's cemetery country - England: English people spurned it away; Marx's class-struggle theory testing country - Soviet Union: no matter how many nuclear missiles, how many aircraft, how many tanks, and how many cannons the Soviet Union did have, nothing could stop the peoples of Russia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan from spurning it away. Needless to mention those Eastern European countries where Marxism regimes were established under bayonet. In a nutshell, the essence of Marxism is nothing that encourages you to create, to blaze the trail, to study science and technology hard, or teaches you to be Beethoven, to be da Vinci, to be Shakespeare, to be Michael Jackson, to be Tu Youyou and Yuan Longping, or guides you to upgrade and optimize the production line in factories or to research hybrid rice in farmlands, or inspires you to pick up hoes and sickles to crop, to harvest, to conquer great nature, and to climb the paramount of science, but everything that instigates you to damage, to destroy, to break into those landlords' homes, Thomas Edison's home, Bill Gates' home, Steve Jobs' home, Mark Zuckerberg's home, and other capitalists' homes to raid, to rob, to smash, and instigates you to go with "class struggle" and to "destroy the old world". Marx's stuff doesn't bring us human beings with creation, peace, love, and prosperity, but with feud, poverty, disaster, havoc, as well as endless insanity of so-called "man-kill-man fun". Good thing is, President Xi pointed out at a press conference in Europe - any tangerine planted in the south of River Huai is tangerine whilst the same thing transplanted to the north of River Huai becomes bitter orange. Well said, well thought of! As such, I think he is trying to tell the whole world that Marxism from the Western World - south of River Huai, doesn't apply to this Eastern land - north of River Huai. I will be much gratified when I witness the moment that our country eventually bids farewell to that German Jew."
"Well said!" Tingting thumped the table.
"Agree!" said both Zhen and Yang.
Skinny gave a thumb-up while Ling was smiling to me.
"You spoke out my words, buddy." said Fatty, waving a half-bitten spring roll.
"Actually, I have another word to add if I may. It's about the subject of practice." I said to Nipple.
"Go ahead."
"Again and again, your Communist Party tells ..."
"Don't say it's my party, it's also yours."
"Why mine? I'm not Communist. Well, fine. Our Party, happy? Again and again, our Party tells the whole country of people, practice is the sole yardstick of truth. Undoubtedly, this is darn right. I can't agree any more. How's the practice of Marxism theory in ex Soviet Union? Failed. How's its practice in Poland? Failed. How's its practice in Hungary? Failed. Czechoslovakia? Failed. East Germany? Failed. Bulgaria? Failed. Albania? Failed. Ex Yugoslavia? Failed. Romania? Well, I'm sorry Ceausescu and his wife can't give us an answer any more. The theory is tested failed by practice after practice, once, twice, thrice, again and again, failure after failure, here, there, everywhere. Does the United Nations require China to stick to this theory? No. Does the United Nations specify the theory must be tested on Chinese people on and on til forever? No. And why do our China and Chinese people still have to stick to this theory? Sometimes I really don't understand our Party. One hand, the Party tells us, practice is the only criterion of testing truth and theory. The other hand, the Party tells us, sticking to Marxism theory is the basic rule by which every single Chinese shall abide. What on earth are we doing? Which country's people is still sticking to this theory in the whole world today? As ex President Jiang says, BE IN THE MOMENT. I can't agree any more. Sticking to an out-of-date, ossified philosophy theory proposed by a Germany Jew born in ancient times is nowhere close to being in the moment, but everywhere close to the path heading to meeting Ceausescu and his wife. President Jiang is smart and intelligent and you guys know where he graduated from. And our Chief Designer of Reform and Opening-up Deng Xiaoping also told us, what matters to a good cat is to catch mice instead of what color its body is. That tells Chinese people, liberal democracy system or Communist dictatorship system, Capitalist marketing economy system or Socialist planning market system, we don't care, as long as it makes Chinese people richer and happier, as long as it works no matter what system and theory we use and apply. This is the key, this is wisdom and intelligence. Look what he also said - those who followed the United States have all become richer and richer. And look what ex Vice President Wang Zhen said after visiting the United Kingdom - this country is just amazing and the only thing that it lacks of is the leadership of Communist Party; with that added on, it's already the ideal society of Communism. So what system and theory have the US and the UK been using? Marxism theory? As practice proves again and again, Marxism theory worked nowhere and Socialist planning economy made those countries collapsed and disintegrated one after another. Who else is still abiding by Marxism? North Korea, Cuba, and Vietnam. Look at North Korea. The only fat guy in that country is Kim I, then Kim II, then Kim III while the whole nation is struggling on the verge between life and death. The whole country is all pitch dark seen from satellites at night while South Korea is all dazzling and brilliant. 
Same race, same nation, same people. Look at West Germany and East Germany. Do we still need more examples? And now, the army conscription benchmark for height is even lowered to 1.5 metre in North Korea. People already have nothing, nothing to lose. So what are they protecting Marxism theory for? Practice of Marxism in North Korea has turned to that Kim I passed the regime to Kim II, Kim II passed the regime to Kim III. And such practice in Cuba turned to elder brother Fidel Castro passed the regime to younger brother Raúl Castro. Is this a feudal dynasty or Socialist republic in modern civilized world? Cuba is still so poor after all these years. People still live in poverty. It's just a little better than North Korea. Oh I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I forgot a thing. That conforms to the actual situations of North Korea, starving to death conforms to the actual situations of North Korea, starving to death conforms to the north of Parallel 38 North, even 1 inch north to that parallel."
Same race, same nation, same people. Look at West Germany and East Germany. Do we still need more examples? And now, the army conscription benchmark for height is even lowered to 1.5 metre in North Korea. People already have nothing, nothing to lose. So what are they protecting Marxism theory for? Practice of Marxism in North Korea has turned to that Kim I passed the regime to Kim II, Kim II passed the regime to Kim III. And such practice in Cuba turned to elder brother Fidel Castro passed the regime to younger brother Raúl Castro. Is this a feudal dynasty or Socialist republic in modern civilized world? Cuba is still so poor after all these years. People still live in poverty. It's just a little better than North Korea. Oh I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I forgot a thing. That conforms to the actual situations of North Korea, starving to death conforms to the actual situations of North Korea, starving to death conforms to the north of Parallel 38 North, even 1 inch north to that parallel."The friends chuckled, sighed, and shaking head.
"And Vietnam?" I continued, "that country is already on the way for political system reforming and heading to embracing democracy and freedom step by step. So who else is still practising Marxism theory?"
"You guys know what," Skinny said, "a new slogan was proposed recently. It's something like 'we are confident in theory, confident in system, confident in path'. But at the same time, another slogan of theirs is 'we have to wade across the river by feeling for stones on the riverbed' and they are still learning how to do things through trial and error. And these days, they say, the theory they have found is the truth in the universe, in the cosmos. Can you imagine that?"
"Whoever proposed this slogan, does he use bathroom every day?" Fatty asked.
"Why?" said Skinny.
"I wonder."
"I really worry about these people too." Tingting said. "Hehe, one hand, feel for stones to cross the river, the other hand, confident in theory, system, and path. And even found the cosmos truth. As time goes on, I wonder they would turn psychopath and schizo."
Nipple also laughed along with us after Tingting's words.
"Guess who proposed the slogan of confident in theory, system, and path." Ling spoke in a serious tone. "It's that Yi Junqing, director Central Compilation and Translation Bureau of CCCPC and standing director of China Society of History of Marxist Philosophy. And the post of that director is de facto equivalent to vice minister."
"Oh, you mean the one who f u c ked Dr. Chang Yan many times and lied to her that in return, he could help her for domicile registration in Beijing? Is that the one?" Zhen shouted.
"Yep."
"This is magnificent! Fantastic!" Skinny spoke out loudly. "How confident in theory, how confident in system, and how confident in path!"
"Well, too many ass-suckers." I looked around at them. "Instead of absorbing loafers, I truly hope the Party can do something as the patriotic poet Gong Zizhen suggested,
'O Party! Bestir yourself,
I beseech you,
And recruit men of all the talents'."
"There was no Communist Party in Qing Dynasty. Okay?" said Tingting.
"Well, this is just what I think and what I feel, personally. If the Party asks for my opinion and point of view one day, that's what I'm gonna say."
"You are right, buddy." Skinny echoed.
"You are telling the fact, the reality. You spoke out our words," said Fatty.
"Actually," Tingting combed her fringe aside, "any one with normal logical thinking would say the same thing. Jiang is right, be in the moment. China needs reform to follow the mainstream of the world. Mr. Deng is right. Practice is the sole criterion of testing truth and theory. Practice has told us, reform must be made. Thank you for sharing your thought with us."
I smiled back at her.
"I'm not interested in these, but I've learned something today."
"Same here," said Yang after Zhen.
Surprised, I nodded acknowledgement to them.
Noticing Nipple had been listening and thinking, I gave him a fingers-snap. "For your joining the Party, I would assume, maybe that's because you think the problem of corruption is very serious and you want to give a helping hand, no matter how teenie-tiny your hand is?"
"Yah, what's in your mind? What happened, Nipple?" Skinny asked.
"Just because Jina dumped you? I know that's a big disaster to you, but life has to move on." Now it was Tingting's turn to try to comfort Nipple. "Every one gets dumped once a while, but it doesn't mean that's the end of the whole world, does it?"
"No, not because of Jina. The truth is, I am bored outside the Party. I wanna go inside, to take a look, to see what's going on, to check out how the whole mechanism runs, and I ..."
"Take a break, man." Skinny broke in, unlidding another bottle of beer and then picking up a slice of Garden Veggie. "Don't you have anything else better to do in your life? You have tons of girls ahead on your road waiting for you to chase. Just leave the Party alone there. Don't bother."
"Skinny, hear him out." I reminded.
"I think, basically I am a good person though I admit I like Miss Hatano 
and Miss Ozawa 
a lot."
and Miss Ozawa a lot.""Wait, who's Miss Hatano and Miss Ozawa? Your Japanese teachers?" I asked.
"Yes, Nipple's Japanese teachers after work." Fatty answered on his behalf while Zhen and Yang were already seen giggling.
"Hatano Yui and Ozawa Maria, Miss Aoi's colleagues." Skinny put down his beer. "Oh come on. Don't tell me you've never heard of Miss Aoi in Canada."
"No, I haven't heard of Miss Aoi."
"Ok, I know what you are." Zhen put her hand on my left shoulder.
"And I know what you are not." Yang laid her hand on my right.
"All right, all right, so what am I and what am I not?" I shook their hands off my shoulders by swinging my upper half body, but I suddenly realized such act was very feminine, at least not very manly.
"You pretend to look you like pizza, but so far you haven't eaten a slice."
"You know, that will not only hurt Nipple, but also hurt all of us for we all love pizza." Yang added after Zhen's words.
"Hey, I love pizza more than any of you guys and even more than any of Italians. The fact is, right before coming here, I just ate a late breakfast and I ate too much. Had you guys informed me of pizza earlier, I could have stopped eating anything a week before if not a month before so as to make huge room for my favourite food."
"All right, that makes sense. But you haven't heard of Miss Aoi? Are you serious? Who else hasn't heard of her in China?" Zhen still seemed to doubt.
"She even had a group photo with Yang Lan and Song Zuying. 
In China, I would say, she is the top celebrity in you men's eyes. Tons of men dream to meet her." Yang further explained.
In China, I would say, she is the top celebrity in you men's eyes. Tons of men dream to meet her." Yang further explained."Oh, you remind me of something. Look, I've personally met three celebrities in my life. One was a star in Hong Kong, one was a star in Hollywood, and one was a star in world politics and affairs. And they are all dead. I was never aware my magnetic field was this big. Since then, I refused to meet any celebrity personally. But I don't refuse to go back to history to visit three celebrities when time machine gets invented. And the first guy is Stalin, the second is the Führer. But of course, I will call them first and persuade them to be nice to people, not to persecute people, and not to launch the war. If they don't listen, then I will pay a visit accordingly."
"I know who is the third one you would visit." Ling smiled to me. "But shall we ..."
"Thanks for reminding. Let's hear Nipple out. Sorry, buddy. Go ahead."
"Thanks." Nipple went on. "Sorry, where was I? Oh yah, Party should absorb more good people, right? I'm not a bad one. We can't just sit here and watch more and more creepy ones sneak into the Party and change the Party's nature bit by bit, day by day. Look what's going on there. If people like us don't get in, if we all sit idling here, then those ultra-leftists and Mao-leftists will dominate the Party, and eventually dominate the country and the nation. Look what has happened in Chongqing. See, ex Premier Wen Jiabao proposed the reform of political system for a number of years and he retired; now, no one is doing anything for that. Leaving Marxism alone, my Party membership role is to enhance the force of reformists in the Party. I surely know what we can do is so teenie-tiny, but it's better than nothing. Plus, democracy and freedom is not just something we talk about something and then we get, but something we do something and then we get. Practice, practice, practice, not talk, talk, talk. There has to be someone doing something, doing practice. There got to be. If you won't do, I won't do, he and she won't, then who will?"
It surprised me that Nipple changed this much. Before, he had never cared about anything like this. It couldn't be Jina who had changed him.
"You made a point, buddy." I tipped the table.
"I will give a YES to my unit's Party secretary who has asked me to join them several times. What will you do?" Skinny looked at Fatty.
"You know I'm in the foreign company. But, count me in, as a reformist." Fatty raised his hand.
"Do you think these boys look very stupid in the eyes of the people in Beijing?" Yang asked Zhen.
"Why do we care what and how we look in the eyes of Beijing natives? Like, do we always ask what will Mrs Grundy say?" I questioned.
"See? Told you ah how sick and crazy the boys in our class are. And I kind of like sick and crazy boys now." Zhen replied.
Ling poured a glass of red wine and raised it - "To our sick and crazy boys!"
"To sick and crazy boys!" Followed Tingting, and Zhen, and Yang, and then all.
When every one put down the drink, Zhen said, "I really wish every day could be like this, not only because it's fun, but also because I can learn something."
"So, what have you learned today?" I asked.
"Practice is the sole yardstick for truth."
Notes:
01. Water Margin: 《水浒》
02. Siamese sisters: 连体姐妹
03. "At the beginning of the movie, Comrade James Marshall delivers an important speech at a national conference of political ideology propaganda work.
Marshall points out, 'Our propaganda and ideological work must aim at arming the people with scientific theory, guiding the people with correct public opinion, building the people with noble spirit, encouraging the people with outstanding artworks.
Marshall emphasizes, 'We shall incessantly bring up and create one generation after another of new Capitalist people with Four Qualifications in ideal, virtue, culture, and discipline.'
Marshall points out, 'our new Capitalist people with Four Qualifications shall firmly lay solid ideological foundations and provide favoured efforts of public opinion for the great cause of constructing Capitalism with American Characteristics.'
And Air Force One is just the ideal of flexible learning Marshall Thoughts and applying it in a creative way so as to make political propaganda work perfect.
And then, the real feature presentation is on. President Marshall's Air Force One is hijacked by terrorists. The bodyguards cover President Marshall to escape from the escaping pod. But, at the pivotal point, President Marshall chooses to stay with her fellow Americans in danger. With his extraordinary intelligence and courage, President Marshall battles wits and volition with the terrorists abroad, Soviet revisionist chieftain from Kazakhstan, and those Socialist Roaders in power at home, making no concession to and no negotiation with the reactionaries. For favour of American people's happiness, he lets common civilians escape safely first at the cost that he might lose his family and his own life. American people, however, can't allow him to lose his own life. If President Marshall were to sacrifice, who would be able to lead the Capitalist Revolution of the whole world? With the united efforts and striving of American people and European people, President Marshall eventually defeats all the enemies and comes back to his American people again.
The movie successfully demonstrates the glorious achievements President Marshall wages inexorable struggles with Soviet Social Imperialism, Communism, Left Putschism, Right Capitulationism, Left Opportunism, Socialist Roaders in power at home, the terrorists abroad, and all the reactionaries, and wins the victory at last. As well, the movie thoroughly proves President Marshall's brilliant inference of ALL TERRORISTS ARE PAPER TIGERS. Meanwhile, in the movie, American people also find - "Communism has not given up the ambition to subjugate our country". Thus, American people shall heighten the vigilance to well defend the country, brace for attacks and all disasters, and live up to the guideline of oil priority while continuing to send out Color Revolution under the flag of democracy and freedom at the same time.
All in all, the movie shows the unparalleled resplendence of President Marshall's glorious thoughts. Marshall Thoughts is a bright lamp on the sea guiding the direction of America and world democracy revolution. The release of the movie has triggered resounding repercussions throughout American people and is followed by dual harvest for spiritual civilization and material civilization.
Long live to great mentor, great leader, great commander, great steerer - President Marshall!": “影片开头，是美国总统吉姆·马歇尔同志在全国政治思想宣传工作会议上发表重要讲话。马歇尔指出：‘我们的政治思想宣传工作，必须以科学的理论武装人，以正确的舆论引导人，以高尚的精神塑造人，以优秀的作品鼓舞人。’马歇尔强调：‘我们要不断培养和造就一代又一代有理想、有道德、有文化、有纪律的资本主义新人。’马歇尔指出：‘我们的资本主义四有新人要在建设有美国特色的资本主义的伟大事业中发挥有力的思想保证和舆论支持作用。’而《空军一号》就是活学活用马歇尔思想，做好政治宣传工作的典范。然后影片进入正题。马歇尔总统遇到恐怖分子劫机，警卫员掩护马歇尔总统从逃生舱逃生，但马歇尔总统在危机关头，选择和人民共患难，马歇尔总统发挥他那超乎常人的智慧和勇气，和恐怖分子、苏修头子以及国内走社会主义道路的当权派斗智斗勇，绝不向反动派妥协，为了人民幸福，他冒着不惜牺牲自己和家人的危险，让普通群众先走，但是，人民不会允许他牺牲自己的生命，马歇尔总统牺牲了，谁来带领世界资本主义革命？在美国人民和欧洲人民的齐心协力支持下，马歇尔总统终于战胜所有的敌人，重新回到了人民身边！电影成功地表现了马歇尔总统与共产主义、苏修社会帝国主义、右倾投降主义、右倾逃跑主义、左倾盲动主义、左倾机会主义、和国内走社会主义道路的当权派以及恐怖分子……等反动分子坚决斗争并最终取得胜利的光辉事绩。而且，影片还充分证明了马歇尔总统‘一切恐怖分子都是纸老虎’的英明论断。同时，美国人民通过影片也可以看到，共产主义亡我之心不死，必须时刻提高警惕，保家卫国，备战备荒，贯彻‘以石油为纲’的方针，同时在民主自由大旗下继续输出颜色革命。总而言之，影片反映了马歇尔总统伟大思想的光芒万丈，马歇尔思想就是大海中的一盏明灯，指引美国和世界资本主义民主革命的方向。影片一经播出，立刻在人民群众中获得了热烈的反响，取得了物质文明与精神文明双丰收。伟大的导师，伟大的领袖，伟大的统帅，伟大的舵手马歇尔总统万岁！”
04. Das Kapital: 《资本论》
05. Yang yanan and Guo Dali: 王亚男，郭大力
06. I'm not Zhou Gongjin. Don't think I can be exasperated by one or two words. 我又不是周公瑾，不是一、两句话就能激得起来的
07. "... honestly, it's very hard for me to understand why 21st century's China still takes, as bible of ideology, the theory of Karl Marx, a German Jew who was born during the period of Emperor Jiaqing. As Communist Party educates us, anything after Opium War is Modern History while anything before Opium War is Ancient History. So, that is to say, even by now, we Chinese are still using an ancient Westerner's stuff as our guidelines to develop today's China whilst the whole world has long said sayonara to Herr Marx.
Can you guys understand why? Sorry, I can't. Now, the whole world is like a small village, we all live together. Thanks to internet. Today, Chinese people have opened the eyes. So, take a look around this world and see what's going on about Marxism. Marx's fatherland - Germany: German people spurned it away; Marx's ethnic fatherland - Israel: Israelis people spurned it away; Marx's cemetery country - England: English people spurned it away; Marx's class-struggle theory testing country - Soviet Union: no matter how many nuclear missiles, how many aircraft, how many tanks, and how many cannons the Soviet Union did have, nothing could stop the peoples of Russia, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan from spurning it away. Needless to mention those Eastern European countries where Marxism regimes were established under bayonet. In a nutshell, the essence of Marxism is nothing that encourages you to create, to blaze the trail, to study science and technology hard, or teaches you to be Beethoven, to be da Vinci, to be Shakespeare, to be Michael Jackson, to be Tu Youyou and Yuan Longping, or guides you to upgrade and optimize the production line in factories or to research hybrid rice in farmlands, or inspires you to pick up hoes and sickles to crop, to harvest, to conquer great nature, and to climb the paramount of science, but everything that instigates you to damage, to destroy, to break into those landlords' homes, Thomas Edison's home, Bill Gates' home, Steve Jobs' home, Mark Zuckerberg's home, and other capitalists' homes to raid, to rob, to smash, and instigates you to go with "class struggle" and to "destroy the old world". Marx's stuff doesn't bring us human beings with creation, peace, love, and prosperity, but with feud, poverty, disaster, havoc, as well as endless insanity of so-called "man-kill-man fun". Good thing is, President Xi pointed out at a press conference in Europe - any tangerine planted in the south of River Huai is tangerine whilst the same thing transplanted to the north of River Huai becomes bitter orange. Well said, well thought of! As such, I think he is trying to tell the whole world that Marxism from the Western World - south of River Huai, doesn't apply to this Eastern land - north of River Huai. I will be much gratified when I witness the moment that our country eventually bids farewell to that German Jew."
“……我实在搞不懂二十一世纪的中国干嘛要把一个出生在嘉庆年间的德国犹太人的理论拜为意识形态的圣经。党教育我们，鸦片战争以后的东西是近代史，鸦片战争以前的都是古代史。那么，也就是说，到现在为止，我们中国人还在拿着一个出生在古代的西方人的东西作为指导原则来发展我们今天的中国，而全世界早就跟马先生说再见了。你们搞得懂我们为啥还这样吗？不好意思，我搞不懂。现在，全世界就像一个小村子，大家都生活在一起。感谢互联网。今天，中国人民睁开了眼睛。那我们就来看一下这个世界，看一看马克思主义现在怎么样。
马克思的祖国——德国：德意志人民唾弃了它；马克思的族裔祖国——以色列：犹太人民唾弃了它；马克思尸体埋葬地之国——英国：英吉利人民唾弃了它；马克思的斗争哲学试验场——苏联：无论拥有多少的核导弹、飞机、坦克、大炮，都无法阻止俄罗斯人民、立陶宛人民、爱沙尼亚人民、拉托维亚人民、乌克兰人民、摩尔多瓦人民、亚美尼亚人民、阿塞拜疆人民、格鲁吉亚人民、白俄罗斯人民、哈萨克斯坦人民、吉尔吉斯坦人民、塔吉克斯坦人民、土库曼斯坦人民、乌兹别克斯坦人民唾弃它。更不用说东欧那些本来就是在刺刀下建立起来的马克思主义的国家了。
简而言之，马克思的东西，不是教你去创造、去开拓、去努力学习科学技术，不是教你去做贝多芬、去做达·芬奇、去做莎士比亚、去做迈克尔·杰克逊、去做屠呦呦、袁隆平，不是要你去工厂改进和革新生产线，不是教你去田间对水稻进行品种改良，更不是教你去拿起锄头、镰刀去开荒、去耕耘、去收获、去征服大自然、去攀登科学的高峰，而是教你去破坏、去跑到人家地主家里、人家爱迪生家里、比尔·盖茨家里、乔布斯家里、扎克伯格等等这些资产阶级家里去斗、去抢、去砸，教唆你“搞阶级斗争、砸碎旧世界”。马克思的东西给人类带来的不是创造、和平、友爱、繁荣，而是仇恨、贫困、灾难、毁灭，是无穷无尽的所谓“人斗人的其乐无穷”。
幸好，习主席在访欧记者招待会中指出，橘生淮南为橘，淮北则为枳。说得好，想得妙！由此可见，我觉得习总是想告诉全世界人民，来自淮南——西方世界的马教并不适用在淮北——这片东方的土地。见证我们国家终将跟德国犹太人道别的那一刻，我会不胜欣慰。”
08. practice is the sole yardstick of truth: 实践是检验真理的唯一标准
09. Ceausescu: 齐奥塞斯库
10. And our Chief Designer of Reform and Opening-up Deng Xiaoping also told us, what matters to a good cat is to catch mice instead of what color its body is: 而改革开放的总设计师邓小平告诉我们，不论黄猫、白猫，抓住耗子就是好猫。
11. those who followed the United States have all become richer and richer: 那些跟着美国走的国家都变富了。
12. And look what ex Vice President Wang Zhen said after visiting the United Kingdom - this country is just amazing and the only thing that it lacks of is the leadership of Communist Party; with that added on, it's already the ideal society of Communism: 再看看国家副主席王震在访英后说的话——这个国家太棒了，唯一缺少的东西就是共产党的领导，把这个一加，那英国就已经是共产主义社会了。
13. confident in theory, confident in system, confident in path: 理论自信，制度自信，道路自信
14. to wade across the river by feeling for stones on the riverbed: 摸着石头过河
15. cosmos truth: 宇宙真理
16. Yi Junqing: 衣俊卿 (查阅百度)
17. Gong Zizhen: 龚自珍
18. 'O Party! Bestire yourself,
I beseech you,
And recruit men of all the talents'.
我劝共党重抖擞，不拘一格揽人才
19. Miss Hatano: 波多野老师
20. Miss Ozawa: 小泽老师
21. Miss Aoi: 苍井老师
22. Yang Lan: 杨澜
23. Song Zuying: 宋祖英
24. Ultra-leftist: 极左分子
25. Mao-leftist: 毛左分子
26. what will Mrs Grundy say: 别人会怎么说
