Wake up（146）

 

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In the long run, repeated sayings tap into the deep regions of our unconscious self, where our motivations for behavior are formed. At a certain point, we forget who is the author of the assertion that is repeated, and we eventually become convinced of it. For example, there would be no new China without the Communist Party. This is the consensus of the Chinese people. Who can deny this?

To deny the Communist Party is to be a counter-revolutionary against the Party. Individuals in a crowd are the sand within the sand, and the wind can stir them up at will. Whether good or bad, the feelings shown by the Chinese people are characterized by their simplicity and exaggeration. The various slogans that can be seen everywhere in China prove this point. Chinese people are used to living in slogans.

As long as a leader who can achieve a great cause, his important quality is not knowledgeable, but must have a strong and lasting authority, which is an extremely rare and powerful power, the barrel of a gun, the handle of a knife, and the barrel of a pen. Enough to conquer all. The monarch wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die. This is a tradition that has been accumulated in China for thousands of years.

Civilization has always been created only by a small number of intellectual elites rather than grassroots groups. If the leader touted by these elites wants to make the creed of rule of man or dictatorship stand firm, he must successfully rely on the servants around him to arouse the imagination of the grassroots.

Yue Fei's killing can be attributed to Qin Hui, not the emperor's fault. The correction of rightists can be attributed to subordinates, not those in power. What's more, a new explanation has emerged: "The right also makes mistakes."

The so-called "rightists also have mistakes" is a reason for the "anti-rightist expansion". no one is perfect. In that "unprecedented" "Yangmou" catastrophe, it was inevitable for anyone to say or do wrong things. What's more, in any political movement, there will always be some bad guys mixed in.

Nan Shanyun was inspired when he read Guo Daohui's anti-rightist memoirs. Guo Daohui believed that, considering the vast majority of people and the overall situation, it is necessary to distinguish a few points:

  1. Freedom of speech is the freedom to say wrong things; the fault lies in anti-rightism, not in the so-called "rightist" speech

The anti-rightist movement is a national-scale crime committed by Mao Zedong and the ruling party since the founding of the People's Republic of China. It has caused irreparable damage and sequelae not only to the people and the country but also to the party itself. Judging from the fact that more than 99.99% of those who were classified as "rightists" have been "corrected", anti-rightism is obviously wrong. However, when correcting unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, it is an intentionally vague concept to say "rehabilitation" instead of "rehabilitation" to "rightists". It can be misunderstood to mean that the "Rightists" have changed their ways, and they even called them "Correcting the Rightists" in the early days, just like calling "the Rightists who took off their hats", and put on a new hat. Obviously, the Party "corrected" the wrong decision to classify the people and comrades as rightists, but some people interpreted the "correction" as giving "lenient treatment" to the rightists, and asked rhetorically, "Are there no mistakes by the rightists?" To justify my mistake.

The so-called "rightist" speeches that were criticized back then, except for most of them were fabricated out of thin air, made out of nothing, made up accusations, made up their minds, and mistook right for wrong, and reversed right and wrong, most of them were "wrong". Extremism or one-sidedness in sexual remarks and opinions. From the point of view of the right of citizens to freedom of speech and the right to supervise the party and the government, freedom of speech originally allows the freedom to speak wrong words, otherwise it can only say what an authority or leader thinks is correct, which is not called freedom. What's more, the remarks that are considered wrong are often "advanced" thinking that is difficult for people to understand at that time or harsh advice that is difficult to accept. Most of the comrades inside and outside the party who responded to the party's call and helped the party to rectify belong to the latter.

  2. Which of the two mistakes is more serious?

Even if the "Rightists" make mistakes, compared to turning their comrades and the people into enemies, it is not a single person, but 550,000 or 3.17 million! For more than 20 years, he has been tortured mentally and physically, even his family has been destroyed, and the new China has almost no peace, until it leads to an unprecedented catastrophe. Which kind of mistake is bigger, more terrible, and has more serious consequences?

Tsinghua designated 571 rightists, most of whom were students in their twenties. Their precious youth was ruined, and some were persecuted to death during the Cultural Revolution. Many "rightists" among the students were thrown into prisons such as Caolanzi and Banbuqiao in Beijing, exiled to labor camps such as Xingkai Lake in Heilongjiang, or sent to Qinghe in Hebei and Sanyuzhuang in Beijing to spend half their lives in labor camps. Many of those who could not bear the abuse have already buried their bones in foreign lands. Student Sun Baocong was the editor-in-chief of "Common People's Daily". He was imprisoned for 22 years for posting small-character posters against deifying Mao Zedong. A student surnamed "Dang" and named "Zhi Guo" published an article in the school magazine demanding improvement of the party's leadership and opposing the use of the party to replace the government. His real name was mistaken by Hu, the deputy secretary of the party committee, as a pseudonym deliberately used by the author to satirize the "Party World". And at the meeting where Tsinghua University criticized the "rightists" Qian Weichang and Huang Wanli (hydraulic experts, who were convicted for opposing the construction of the Sanmenxia Dam that caused water damage), they took the stage to defend Qian and Huang. They were classified as rightists and deported Reform through labor, later upgraded to counter-revolutionary, sentenced to death, luckily not executed. Feng Guo, a returning overseas Chinese student from Indonesia, delivered a speech during the release, complaining about the persecution of him during the anti-revolutionary campaign. After he was classified as a rightist, he spent decades in several labor camps. He was sentenced to death because the overseas Chinese were exempted from execution. The students Zhang Xintao and Liu Xuefeng were originally tall and strong young men. They were sent to the third branch of the Qinghe Labor Reform after being drawn to the right. During the great famine of "Leaping Forward", Zhang, Liu, and more than 300 other student rightists were forced to eat their stomachs for spring farming, and almost all of them starved to death before summer. Lu Haoqing, a student of the Department of Electrical Engineering, was expelled, sent to a forced labor camp, abandoned by his lover, unbearable to bear the abuse on the labor camp farm and went crazy, and finally succeeded in committing suicide three times. Xu Zhangben, a professor in the physics teaching and research section, was arrested and imprisoned, and died in a labor camp because he suggested that "Marxism-Leninism should be abolished as our guiding ideology." Cheng Yingquan, a professor of the Department of Architecture, had a divorce and remarried his wife. He was tormented again during the Cultural Revolution. All thoughts were lost, and he committed suicide by throwing himself into the swimming pool of Tsinghua University. ...

As for some veteran cadres, such as the death of two members of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Tsinghua University mentioned at the beginning of this article and the experience of former Party Secretary Yuan Yongxi, we have already seen it. Comrade Chen Lian, Yuan's ex-wife, suffered even worse. The daughter of Chen Bui, Chiang Kai-shek's political secretary, made a revolutionary break with the reactionary family before liberation, joined the Communist Party, and engaged in underground revolutionary activities. In 1957, she was forced to divorce her revolutionary partner and "rightist" husband because she was a high-ranking cadre of the Youth League Central Committee (Minister of Children). During the Cultural Revolution, she was brutally criticized for being implicated by her husband and her father, and her children were forced to "draw a line" and "break" with her, a revolutionary mother who was accused of being a "secret agent who had infiltrated the party". She suffered such great injustice, had no relatives, was alone, had nowhere to go, and finally broke with her own life in despair——she committed suicide by jumping off a building in Shanghai. Among these four "breaks", how much revolutionary righteousness and courage is required for the first break; the tragedy of the last three "breaks" is even more earth-shattering!

Guo Daohui's anti-rightist memoirs shocked Nan Shanyun:

In the face of all kinds of tragic endings caused by the anti-rightist movement, as long as we think about it based on social conscience, we will not ask the person responsible, but will reflect on ourselves. Not to mention that we should reflect on the huge damage caused by the anti-rightist movement to the fate of the party and the country.

In fact, the consciousness of group blind obedience will overwhelm the rationality of the individual. Once the individual belongs to the group, his original independent rationality will be overwhelmed by the ignorance and madness of the group. After forming a group, due to the large number of people, individuals will have an illusion, feeling that they are infinitely powerful and invincible, as if nothing is impossible. When a person integrates into society, he loses himself.

The anti-rightist movement formed a powerful anti-rightist group, and within this group were cadres, intellectuals, and grassroots groups. In the situation where it is necessary to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, these groups may still be willing to accept all the disadvantages of the red education, because no one wants to be a person who is abandoned by the social group, superficial grasp of the knowledge of the enemy and the enemy, and piles of political textbooks. Perfect recitation may improve the political level. But the cruelty of class struggle can only distort the truth, goodness and beauty of human nature.