Wake up（379）

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The teacher-student gathering at Cafe Bau restaurant in Hong Kong continues. Under Wanru's question, the topic of the teachers and students turned to rethinking the Cultural Revolution. The narrations of professors Shen Zhirui and Hong Wenxuan and the reminders of Dean Bai Yu guided the thinking of young people to how to correctly view today's society.

Professor Hong Wenxuan said:

Chinese people should dare to deny themselves, but only denying a few people in power but not the masses and everyone themselves, nor is it a true denial of the authoritarianism represented by Mao Zedong. As I mentioned earlier, the occurrence of the "Cultural Revolution" was caused by the extremization of authoritarianism. The extremization of authoritarianism is due to the extreme dictatorship of those in power represented by Mao Zedong on the one hand, and the extreme ignorance and weakness of the majority of the ruled on the other hand. No matter how powerful Mao Zedong was, he could not carry out the "Cultural Revolution" alone. Mao Zedong's strength comes from the ignorance and weakness of the people. He is the master of the ignorance of one billion Chinese people. In other words, the emergence and continuation of any autocratic regime is jointly created and maintained by the ruler and the ruled. There can be no autocratic rule without a submissive subject. Specific to China's history and current situation, without the Chinese people's servility cultivated by the profound feudal tradition, China's despotism would never have been so long and so unscrupulous.

Professor Shen Zhirui said:

China now claims to have entered the primary stage of socialism, so when will it enter the advanced stage? Why did the slogan "strive for communism" disappear from official media? Why is the government no longer confidently graffitiing this slogan on the walls of the streets and alleys?

The slogan of "strive for communism" once resounded all over the world. How many socialist countries are there that are allied with communist ideals?

23 socialist countries on earth have disappeared, these countries include:

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Hungarian People's Republic, Hungarian Soviet Republic, Bavarian Soviet Republic, Romanian Socialist Republic, Bulgarian People's Republic, Polish People's Republic, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, Slovak Soviet Republic, German Democratic Republic, Albania People's Republic, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, People's Republic of Mongolia. Also includes Democratic People's Republic of Kampuchea, People's Republic of Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, People's Republic of Benin, People's Republic of Angola, People's Republic of Congo, People's Republic of Mozambique, Democratic People's Republic of Somalia, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.

The five socialist countries that are still alive today are China and North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba. Interestingly, among these five socialist countries, China is only in the primary stage of socialism.

This time, Dr. Lin Beixue, a doctor of medicine, asked the professors a question: It is rumored on the Internet that China is developing version 2.0 of the Cultural Revolution. Will the Cultural Revolution be revived?

Dean Bai Yu said to Shen Zhirui: You are a professor of psychology, and you have the responsibility to answer this question for young people from the perspective of group psychology.

Professor Shen Zhirui said with a smile: It is difficult for me to explain this problem from the perspective of group psychology, but I recently saw Mr. Ji Xianlin's article "The Lessons of the Cultural Revolution Are Hard to Buy" published on "Empire Today" last month. His point of view is clear: the Cultural Revolution is over, have lessons been learned? No, not at all!

Professor Shen Zhirui said: Ji Xianlin is not a Marxist theorist. But in his time and environment, he raised four very tall questions. It still has extremely strong practical significance today.

Professor Shen Zhirui turned on his mobile phone and searched for this article:

The Cultural Revolution is over, have lessons been learned? No, not at all. Sixteen or seventeen years after the end of the "Cultural Revolution", I have been thinking about some issues related to this so-called "revolution". The first is: have you learned your lesson? Everyone in the world believes that the so-called "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" has neither "culture" nor "revolution" and is an out-and-out "ten-year catastrophe".

This is the consensus of the entire Chinese people, and there is absolutely no need for further debate. In this unprecedented (I hope so) catastrophe, our people have suffered a lot in both spiritual and material aspects.

There is really no way to settle this account. Not worth mentioning. Don't we often say that to seek knowledge, to gain experience or lessons, we have to pay tuition? I totally agree with this sentiment. However, the tuition fees we have paid are so high that they cannot be increased. Where is the knowledge, experience or lessons we have obtained?

My answer is: no, not at all.

Personally, I have always believed that the "ten-year catastrophe" is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sum up lessons, and it is a "negative teacher" that is hard to buy with billions of dollars. From this "teacher", we can get a lot of negative lessons; once the lessons are transformed, they can become positive experiences. Whether it is lessons or experience, it is very useful for us to further build our great motherland.

However, we didn't do this, and we missed this golden opportunity that might never come again.

Has the "Cultural Revolution" passed? The "Cultural Revolution" has not passed! Some people say: The "Cultural Revolution" has passed, and there is no need to worry about it. Therefore, the second question I pondered is: Has the "Cultural Revolution" passed?

We are materialists, and the essence of materialism is to seek truth from facts. If you really want to seek truth from facts, you must admit that the "Cultural Revolution" has not passed.

Although. On the face of it, that seems to be over. However, on closer inspection, the opposite is true. If you ask the middle-aged and elderly intellectuals who participated in the "Cultural Revolution", especially those who were persecuted during the "Cultural Revolution", if they are willing and dare to tell the truth, you will know that they still have a lot of anger and have not vented it.

Today's youth may be different. They don't know much about the "Cultural Revolution", and listening to lectures about the "Cultural Revolution" is like listening to strange stories from overseas. That's what I think is cause for concern. They are ignorant of the lessons learned from the past. Who can guarantee that they will not do similar things in the future?

As for middle-aged and elderly intellectuals who have been persecuted, when the "Cultural Revolution" is mentioned, they are all angry and full of complaints. It is impossible for me to meet 100% of such intellectuals. But I can guarantee that at least most people are like this.

As for the veteran cadres who were persecuted during the "Cultural Revolution" for their meritorious service in establishing the New China, they are highly enlightened and magnanimous, which may be different from intellectuals. I don't have many old cadres in contact with, so I dare not talk nonsense. However, I remembered a small but profound thing, so I might as well talk about it.

"The Cultural Revolution proved: 'Scholars can be killed or humiliated.'"

I remember that in 1978, after the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference resumed its activities, I met an old cadre in the Friendship Hotel who had participated in the revolution for a long time and was very famous in the literary and art circles. Before the "Cultural Revolution", we were both members of the Social Science Group of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. We hadn't seen each other for more than ten years. The first thing he said when he saw me was: "The ancients said: 'Scholars can be killed, but not humiliated.' The Cultural Revolution proved:' Scholars can be killed or humiliated.'" After finishing speaking, he laughed loudly. Is he laughing or crying?

I couldn't laugh at all. Isn't it clear how much pent-up pain is in this veteran cadre's heart? In June 1966, he criticized Feng Yuzhong, the deputy dean of Class 65 (1) of the High School Attached to Tsinghua University. Most of the students in the class still have this kind of thinking, and this veteran cadre is by no means alone. I personally have such thoughts. Moreover, I believe that the vast majority of Chinese intellectuals, that is, the so-called "scholars" in ancient times, would have this idea.

  "A scholar can be killed, but not humiliated", this sentence shows that China has such a tradition since ancient times. We are more sensitive in this regard than foreign intellectuals...

Leader worship. I used to be firmly against it. When I was in China, I always sneered at the Kuomintang people's admiration for their "leader". I met this "leader" when I went to Nanjing to appeal as a student of Tsinghua University after the "September 18th" incident. He was full of lies and deceived us. Later, the more I thought about it, the more unpleasant it became.

My teacher, Mr. Chen Yinke, is also not interested in this project. His poem "Looking at Huachou near the tallest building" can be proved. Later, when I arrived in Germany, it was the day when fascism was rampant. I saw Germans, at least some of them, shouting to each other: "Heil Hitler!" when they met, I found it extremely ridiculous and incomprehensible.

I know a German girl who is not more than twenty years old, and she is very beautiful. Once she actually said to me: "If I can have a child with Hitler, it will be the greatest honor in my life!" I have a subtext: We Chinese are smart and would never do such a stupid thing.

Victims, is Shu angry? Answer: No!

This question is very easy to answer. According to my above description, the answer is only two words: no!

To discuss this issue clearly, we must start from looking back at the past. Overseas Chinese living far away felt the dramatic changes in their situation before and after liberation. The patriotic overseas Chinese are now full of patriotic enthusiasm, which is unprecedented. The young and middle-aged overseas Chinese risked all kinds of difficulties to return to the motherland. However, once upon a time, the situation changed, and the extreme "left" trend of thought enveloped everything, and "overseas relations" became the main excuse for framing Luo Zhi.

How can people who have returned from overseas not have "overseas relations"? This is common sense that three-year-olds understand. However, a group of our "Master Zuo" insisted on this point. What spies, what spies, these extremely scary hats are flying all over the sky. It made everyone feel insecure and frightened.

When it came to the "Cultural Revolution", it developed even more viciously. How many patriotic and kind-hearted people have suffered injustice! Needless to say, those who were persecuted to death. The living ones also rushed to leave. The former scrambled to return home, while the latter scrambled to leave. What a stark contrast!

Which of the intellectuals who stayed in the country and the intellectuals who were forced to leave felt resentful?

Don't express your anger. In my opinion, this is not a normal phenomenon. It contains something dangerous, which is not conducive to the victorious advance of our motherland.

Why did the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" happen? It's a big deal, and I don't have the ability to answer it. Is there anyone who can answer? I think there are. Can. They just didn't answer, and they didn't seem to like others to answer. I humbly think that this is not the attitude a materialist should hold.

if. If you answer this crucial question frankly and realistically, the people of the whole country, including the intellectuals of course, will sincerely thank you. Wouldn't it be a shame to work hard to build our socialist society!

We don't study it, and foreigners come to study it. Some of them were well-intentioned and spoke the truth with a scientific attitude of seeking truth from facts. Point or not, the truth is always better than a lie. Among them, there are malicious ones, with other purposes, distorting the facts, making rumors and slandering, and muddying a pool of clear water. Although it is said that "It's ridiculous to shake a big tree." But it's not a good thing after all. Where do we go from here? I think it's very clear. My thoughts stop here. It's also over.

  Dean Bai Yu laughed after listening to Professor Shen Zhirui's narration. He said to Professor Shen Zhirui: You borrow the words of Mr. Ji Xianlin to answer this question for young people. This is an excuse to use your cognition wow!

Professor Shen Zhirui also laughed: Mr. Ji Xianlin is everyone, and his words are more convincing. What am I? I have retired a long time ago, how dare I use the theory of the Cultural Revolution to mislead former students.

Old Professor Hong Wenxuan also laughed. It was the young students who couldn't laugh. They really had no impression of the Cultural Revolution, neither loved nor hated it. Just like the understanding of Qin Shihuang, although Qin Shihuang was a tyrant, he unified China, and the Great Wall he built is the greatest achievement in the world.