我流泪了
国人从不是平民阶级
他们是暂时的embarrassed的统治阶级
“Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted,
most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing
a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent:
'After the revolution even we will have more, won't we, dear?'
Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on
her property.
I guess the trouble was that we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians.
Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn't have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.”
─ John Steinbeck, America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction