In earlier years he made the mistake of comparing Mao Tse-tung to Plato's philosopher king--obviously an extreme case of utopianism.
尤其他早年愛屋及烏，把毛澤東比作柏拉圖筆下「理想國」裡完美的「哲學家領袖」，就十分十分地「烏托邦」了。他在文革末期的期刊論文中，也曾經對勞改下放有過相當樂觀浪漫的看法。