Mandarin Version
What we are trying to present is the war-hawk quality of having the courage to do experiments and to subvert authority, in hopes of encouraging those with urge but too scared and silent to step out to run wild and mess around with us, turning out slipshod pieces of work, taking an oath to be the vanguards of the stinky rebel culture from the peasant and worker classes! We want to, through our works, ruthlessly attack the main-stream value of material desire. It is necessary to create more negative images, develop children’s personalities without any contact with corruptions and evil practices from capitalism, support betel nuts, Whisbih, LSD, Ecstacy, and self-shot porno films with contents of whoredom, and use “taike” as action guide and weapon to fight, so that losers can get rid of their depressions, create new identification and optimism, and understand what they are fighting for. They will be inspired to aggressively battle and produce!
The LTK Commune on stage usually performs with a vulgar, low-class, and off-key style, shouting and provoking hysterically. When strategies are highly required, the band carelessly makes a disaster. When firm will to battle is required, the band shows clumsy tenderness. The work results have usually been huge losses which too tragic to look at. However, we believe the only way to be extensively connected to the people is to keep emotions unhealthy and unclean, use inelegant and influent languages, integrate pornography into works, and add more friendly human touch and vivacious sense of sophistication.
Therefore, even though we have been notorious, called exiles and extreme militarists, and considered holding extreme views, unmindfully taking a part for the all, and violently ruined people’s tastes, I believe all of the above are true. These criticisms are very helpful to us. I sincerely accept them and express my greatest joy wholeheartedly.
However, we still have to feel bitter about realizing the serious situation in which our works are still far behind people’s high demands.
For a long time, our organization has been developed along the correct route of serving people. We thought we held our positions with our race and our people, but after being dominated by subjectivism for a long period of time, we have, without filtration, learned the dross and sadness from corrupt western literature and art. There are powerful poisons of idealism, fantasy, and mystery but we didn’t know about their existence, which has polluted our motivations of creation so that we have humored the petty bourgeoisie by satisfying their tastes. The truth proves that we should have stayed away from the hollow and abstract western stereotypes!
People’s demands: Literature and art must reflect the great reality! People have been left speechless by reality. Their actions have become more and more extreme everyday. Strong dissatisfaction with our laziness, temporization, and being dispirited has been shown. Art from the bourgeoisie is always about stubborn self-manifestation, emphasizing heroism, imbuing people and nations with carelessness and thoughts against mass movements, avoiding sharp issues in real lives, consolidating people’s old thoughts and habits to pull the history moving backwards.
Today, I have to ruthlessly and harshly self-criticize this kind of titular and armchair thoughts which were not inspired by the people. We were full of ourselves for having some achievements and started to be too proud, leaning against blind worship of individualism. We feel surprised and painful for the serious mistakes we have made in the process of establishing an independent country and the damages to the democracy therefore caused. We must learn the lessons and reform ourselves. It’s never too late. From this moment on, we must firmly start over and learn from the people night and day, devoting ourselves to the heat of fights in life, adjusting and developing our own strength.