By chance later I got hold of the... what was written about me when I was a teacher by the members of the Communist party and part of it I would like to read here. It says, 'Comrade Klein'... comrade was of course anybody, you could not call Mr or whatever, you were comrade whether you were a Communist or not. So... 'Comrade Klein is a bourgeois intellectual'. It is true, an objectivist true... bourgeois I don't know... 'He is interested in various philosophical trends but approaches them from a position of a bourgeois objectivism. It will be necessary to guide him politically in the right direction. He is a person of integrity, critical and fearless. Has tendency to individualism. Comrade Klein is introverted, a person who does not seek out the collective and service to the collective has not yet become a need for him'.

Well, when I read that I was surprised I was accepted anywhere, although some of the things were true, they were dirty words, if you called somebody... if you called... an intellectual was a dirty word already, but bourgeois intellectual you were finished at a school where you were teaching young people. So I think I got out of the teaching job just in time. I could not have persisted there under these circumstances. Just... this might sound strange to anybody outside... intellectual - why should that be a dirty word? But not so long ago I was in Prague and I took the subway and it was crowded and I was trying to get out and there was a man standing... an old man standing... not old, I mean, elderly man standing in my way, and I ask him, 'Excuse me'.  He didn't hear so I just tapped him on the shoulder, he got very mad that I touched him and he said, 'Oh you intellectual'. I don't know why he got the idea that I was an intellectual but it was, you know, calling names... intellectual still is in these people's mind, but bourgeois intellectual, I don't know actually. Bourgeois, what would be the right word for translation into English? But anyway it was... that's how they saw me. That's how the Communist party at that time saw me.