Throughout human history, those who have achieved success must have a high wind and bright festival. It was during the most impoverished period of his life that Marx wrote Capital. In a letter to Engels in February 1852, he wrote: "In a week I have reached a point of great pleasure: because my coat has entered the pawnshop, I can no longer go out, because I am not allowed to eat meat on credit." Even so, Marx did not give in, did not stop working. Not fearing hardships and hardships, and only being true for doctrine, this is the integrity of a proletarian revolutionary.

—"Miscellaneous Essays on Politics" (March 1990) from "Escaping Poverty"

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Marx, the spiritual mentor of the Communists, wrote the word "integrity" with a lifetime of struggle. When he began writing Capital in London, Marx was in the most difficult days of his life. Due to the lack of a regular source of income, coupled with the persecution and blockade of the bourgeois government, the Marx family was plagued by the problems of hunger and survival. Hunger became a threat, and disease recurred, and Marx wrote to Engels: "My wife is sick, Xiao Yanni is sick, and Linxin is suffering from a nervous fever. Doctor, I couldn't ask in the past, and I can't ask now, because I don't have the money to buy medicine. For eight to ten days, the family has been eating bread and potatoes, and it is questionable whether they can get these today. Three of his six children died in such poverty, and even after the children died, they did not even have the money to buy a small coffin.

During his exile in London, Marx lived in poverty. When she was too poor to pay the rent, the landlady called the police and seized the beds, clothes, and even the children's cradles and toys. Several children were so frightened that they hid in the corner and secretly shed tears. Marx had no choice but to brave the rain to find a new house, but there was no one to take him in. At this time, the owners of pharmacies, bakeries, and milk shops came to force debts. Yanni was helpless in front of her creditors, so she had to carry her bed out and sell it to pay off her debts. But as soon as the bed was lifted into the car, the police came again, saying that it was against the law to carry things at dusk, and falsely accusing them of being a deliberate attempt to escape from debts. For Marx, the reason why money and life were needed was only for the revolutionary cause. In one of his letters, he said: "If I have enough money, that is to say, to support my family, and my book is finished, it doesn't matter to me whether I am cast into the skinning field today or tomorrow, in other words, to die." ”

Marx came from a wealthy family, received his doctorate at the age of 23, married an aristocratic lady at the age of 25, and was the editor-in-chief of the Rheinische Zeitung. He should have become "Sir Marx", "Minister Marx", "President Marx", "Professor Marx", but he abandoned all this, chose "the profession which best serves the welfare of mankind", and spent 40 years in exile for work and revolution, destitute and his children, until he fell asleep forever at his desk in March 1883. Marx embodied the integrity of a proletarian revolutionary with his actions.

Xi Jinping told the story of Marx writing "Capital", in order to reiterate the truth: noble integrity is the quality that every person who has become a great cause should have, no matter what difficulties and obstacles he faces, as long as he has firm beliefs and sticks to integrity, he will definitely be able to overcome difficulties and achieve success. At present, in the face of the temptation of interests and pluralistic thoughts, in response to the challenges of reform and the pressure of transformation, revisiting Xi Jinping's earnest words, "throughout human history, where there are achievements, there must be a high wind and bright festival", "noble integrity is the quality that every leader should have", which can inspire the majority of party members and cadres to strengthen their ideals and beliefs, stimulate noble integrity, clean themselves in the face of the temptation of interests, stand firm in the face of ideological confrontation, and have the courage to struggle in the face of risks and challenges, so as to promote the "China" giant ship to continue to cut waves. Sail out into the wider water.