this is one of the more politically minded posts from Zhihu. the poster is an excellent theoretian of gongyedang. He claimed that the original books are critical of people like Ye Wenjie & Cheng Xin, who're like gongzhi (public intellectuals) in backward societies who think idealistically & naively

about Westerners (think they'll come liberate you rather than dominate you). It celebrates people like Zhang Beihai, Luo Ji, and Wade who never give up resisting the superior power. "Its morale therefore is anti-American, anti-anti-imperialist,