What, me, accept being ruled by the party of workers and peasants? Me, accept being ruled by a party dedicated to eradicating the system of theft and robbery on Earth? Me, go back to working with my hands? Eat only what has been produced by my sweat alone, without having access to the products of other people’s sweat?
On the contrary, I would say that it is your plan for the grabbing of the soil and all the air in the universe that’s the dangerous one, and the one that could spread the disease of Chinese-style communism more quickly…. Better meanness that is covert: better a system of theft that is disguised by lies. Or why do you think that our imperialist friends brought us the Bible? Do you think they were being foolish when they urged the workers and peasants to close their eyes in prayer and told them that earthly things were in vain?
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o, “Devil on the Cross”, 1982
