No. But wiping it with toilet paper is exactly a product of capitalism. The proof is in the "rejection of capitalism". For example, in the Soviet Union, people have rarely seen toilet paper.
Kunio Saito, the former Japanese army invading China and the comic book author, once mentioned the shortage of toilet paper for Japanese prisoners of war in the chapter describing the memories of the Siberian labor camp - in the early days, after the Japanese prisoners of war consumed their own toilet paper materials, they could not get any toilet paper from the Soviet Union**, and they reached a situation where there was no paper to use. For the sake of convenience, the Japanese tried their best to dig into the ground to collect birch leaves and paper money instead of toilet paper. This was not because the Soviets were deliberately abusing Japanese prisoners, but because the Soviets had no paper to use the toilet themselves. Kunio Saito wrote: In the labor camp, from ordinary Soviet soldiers to captains, regardless of male or female soldiers, regardless of size, do not use toilet paper. As soon as the pants are taken off and lifted, the job is over. Moreover, the Soviets never blew their noses with paper, pressed their fingers on one side of the nostril, and then "hummed" vigorously, and the snot rushed out.
The sanitary conditions and daily necessities of the Soviet army shocked the low-level soldiers of the Japanese army, whose sanitary conditions were already very ordinary in the industrial countries participating in the war. It is indeed beyond reproach to say that this is due to the difficult conditions during the war, the lack of rebuilding after the war, and the failure to keep up with logistics and the production of sanitary products. But the scarcity of toilet paper is like a taut weather vane, running through the entire Soviet Union. Paper production in the Soviet Union continued to develop after the war. In 1956, the total production of paper in the USSR was 19330,000 tons; In 1988 it reached 6.3 million tons. The growth rate seems not small, but it is important to know that Shandong Province produced 20.15 million tons of paper and cardboard last year. The Soviet Union, the most powerful and industrially developed socialist country, faced with domestic demand from a population of nearly 300 million, produced less than one-third of today's Shandong Province in terms of annual paper output. Until the time of its collapse, the Soviet Union produced only as much pulp per year as Sweden. The paper production of Eastern European countries under the control of the Soviet Union was only half that of Sweden. The amount of toilet paper that discards industrial paper and office and printing paper is even smaller to a negligible. It was not until the end of 1969 that the Soviet Union introduced the first toilet paper production equipment from the United Kingdom, but its toilet paper production was not only sluggish, but also of very low quality, and a small number of high-end production lines were only for exporters and a very small privileged group in Moscow and St. Petersburg, and most of the toilet paper used by the Soviets was poor quality straw paper or other hard paper. In the 80s, students who went to the Soviet Union were often surprised to find that the inferior straw paper produced in the Soviet Union was hard and thin, and they had to queue up to buy it. This is still the existence of limited toilet paper ** in Moscow. In the vast areas of the Soviet Union, which were even more in demand, even this inferior papyrus paper could not be seen. In the 80s, I had the privilege of being sent to study in the Soviet Union, and in the capital Moscow, I was surprised to find that men and women from advanced socialist industrialized countries were lining up to buy similar inferior straw paper. And the quality is not as good as that of China - thinner, harder, less absorbent! I saw a friend comment that the China I recalled in the 70s was the first three steamed buns, so how many steamed buns was the Soviet Union in the 80s?
Do you still have an impression of the papyrus of the planned economy? Chinese scholar Huang Weiding said: The quality of consumer goods for the masses in the Soviet Union was poor and tight, and the time spent by the Soviet people every year on queuing up to buy food, toothpaste, toilet paper and other daily necessities is equivalent to the annual working hours of 15 million laborers. Paper is a very early industrial product. The raw materials required for its pulp, such as conifer wood, grass, bast fibers, etc., are very rich in reserves in the Soviet Union, which has vast land and forest resources, but the Soviet Union cannot even do the most basic toilet paper. This profound memory of the shortage in the Soviet Union has become a symbol, deeply imprinted in the hearts of a generation, and has become synonymous with the shortage of materials and the shortage of daily necessities all over the world. Former U.S. intelligence ** Koffler, when describing the chaotic situation of out-of-stock masks and toilet paper in the United States at the beginning of the epidemic, once said: "Our country is becoming the former Soviet Union!" A similar situation continues today, and Cuba, which is still "rejecting capitalism**", will have a toilet paper crisis as soon as it falls into an economic shortage: Cuba's state-owned company** said last Friday that the country is in a deep economic crisis and that toilet paper is in short supply, and this situation is likely to continue until the end of the year. Due to the scarcity of raw materials and the low production technology, the quality of the few toilet papers produced in Cuba is also very poor. Many domestic travel bloggers don't forget to remind them of their Cuba travel tips: pay attention to the toilet paper here!
On the other side of North Korea, although you can buy Chinese-made toilet paper in big city stores, it is often very expensive and not affordable for ordinary people on a daily basis. In the vast rural areas of North Korea, where the movement of people and the movement into the city are strictly controlled, the use of leaves is also a common norm. In North Korea's public toilets, no one uses toilet paper, most of them are newspapers. Obviously, toilet paper is a luxury item in North Korea. Public toilets at the airport, although they have toilet paper, are of very inferior quality. South Korea, on the other hand, has doubled its paper industry since the 90s, reaching 10 million tons of paper per year in the millennium, surpassing North Korea, surpassing the Soviet Union and today's Russia. As a relatively marginal ally of the United States and a small industrial country, from sugar to paper to textiles, a country has advanced the Soviet Union and its entire camp in all aspects of light industry and other fields; Heavy industries such as car building, shipbuilding, and semiconductors are not far behind, and per capita income and CPI are beyond reach for any country that has not been poisoned by capitalism. It can be seen that the power of "capitalism" is huge. List of high-quality authors