Submitted by jenny on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 06:14
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Dictionary definition. In the dictionary, a “cell” is defined as follows: “Small group of people forming a center of (especially revolutionary) political activity.” (Oxford Advanced Learner’s English-Chinese Dictionary).
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Purpose. Cells exist in order to train up new workers/revolutionaries, to expand the work in question. They operate locally, and often under some form of duress.
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1920’s and 1930’s. From the history books and from CCTV-8 T.V. plays, we can learn something about what the communists and their cells did in China; in spite of much opposition and great dangers, they were successful. You what I mean, here.
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Proven effectiveness. The cell system is still in use today. It can be studied in books, or if you know the right people you can get the real thing—training in how to create, grow and propagate cells.
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What does and does not work has been tried, and tested, and refined. Over the past one hundred years or so, many people have put a lot of effort into constructing a system that can work under many different and difficult conditions.
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Cell literature. Likewise, there is a lot of related literature available for study (if you have access to the libraries).
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On revolution. This action means the overthrow of a previously existing system—here, (i) failed English (by this I mean a system which you and others built up in college but which is now crumbling away), (ii) flawed motives (chasing English for various reasons)—and replacing it with (iii) something new (that is, learning English on the go, on your own, without a foreign helper).
