親父の背中(5)

親父は1998年から2016年まで社会主義協会（社会党の理論研究集団）の代表を務めていた。すでにベルリンの壁は崩壊した後にどういう気持ちでこの仕事をしていたのだろうかと思ったが、彼にとっては何処吹く風。最後まで労働者の地位向上に向けて戦っていた。葬儀では兄貴も「親父は一生信念で生きていた」と言ったがそうだと思う。社会に吠えるこの顔が僕らの中では最も親父らしい顔である。とてつもなく怖い人だった。
My dad was the Socialist Association head (the theoretical research group of the Socialist Party) from 1998 to 2016. I wondered how he felt about this job after the Berlin Wall had already fallen, but for him, it was nothing. In the end, he was fighting for the improvement of the status of workers. At his funeral, my brother said that my father lived his whole life by his convictions, and I think he was right. This face, barking at society, is the most fatherly face of us all. He was a tremendously scary man.