有人曾问我:“人活着是为自己还是为别人?”现在比较流行的一句话叫完善自己,这与为人民服务不矛盾吗?这得搞清楚为什么要为人民服务。从根儿上说,从历史唯物主义的基本原理上说,就在于人的社会性。个人与社会有一种不可分割的依存关系。人不能脱离社会而孤立地存在和发展。我最初接触这个问题是在半个世纪前。我在当时的北平上中学的 Someone once asked me if “people are living for themselves or for others?” Now that the more popular sentence is “Perfection,” does this not contradict with serving the people? It is necessary to find out why we should serve the people. At its root, the fundamental principle of historical materialism is that of human beings. There is an indivisible relationship between individuals and society. People can not exist and develop in isolation from the society. My initial contact with this question was half a century ago. I was in Peking at that time