During the period from 1945 to 1949, for example, just after the country had experienced eight years of war and destitution, some angry young people chose Marxism, believing it to be a magic panacea, a short cut to Utopia. Today these people, now old men and women, must deeply regret the mistaken choice they made back then, or they may have already paid the price for it with their lives.
有一些憤怒的青年選擇了馬克思主義，認為這是一種萬靈丹，是一條終南捷徑，結果到現在為止，這些現已成老年的人，對他們當年這個錯誤的選擇，一定會深有所感或早已付出血肉的代價。