As Mr. Sima Nan's number one fan for many years. I have to say that there is such a group of people who use Sima Nan as a credit endorsement and advocate their own ultra-left ideas, which is really deeply unfair for Mr. Sima Nan.
The fans here do not refer to Sima Nan's ordinary fans, but "specially" refers to Sima Nan, Wen Tiejun, and Lu Qiyuan as their "spiritual leaders". In fact, it is a group of people who want to find credit endorsement for their "ultra-left" ideas. The fans and Sima Nan's rhetoric may not be completely consistent, but they are relatively close. So, in this kind of ideological resonance, they staged a "retro" play on the stage of the Internet.
In the tide of ideas in this world, there are both left and right, but once they are extreme, they will become extreme left and extreme right.
So is the ultra-left harmful? How did the ultra-left come about? Why does it resonate with the academic class of the previous generation? All the questions will be broken down one by one below.
Since many netizens and fans are from the city, I can't understand, what's wrong with the ultra-left? Will the far left make the sky fall? In fact, from a historical point of view, the harm of the ultra-left is greater than the sky falling.
This has to start with the "Xinyang Incident" in 1960.
In those years, the people's communes implemented various forms of distribution systems based on the supply system and the wage system, and implemented the grain supply system (according to the grain supply standards stipulated by the state, rations are provided to the members of the commune at no price), the food supply system (no money for food, vegetables, and oil), and the basic living supply system (the "seven guarantees" of eating, dressing, housing, childbirth, education, medical treatment, and weddings and funerals were implemented, and some also covered haircuts, baths, plays, movies, and barbecues).Originally, the supply system was the place where the superiority of the socialist system was embodied, but this superiority required material guarantees. However, in order for society to efficiently produce a large number of materials, it is necessary to have a mature system of incentives to actively create and produce. If there is no such reward system, then human beings will unconsciously use the loopholes of the collective system to "seek personal gain" and "laziness" because of their "profit-seeking". These behaviors ultimately lead to overall low productivity. It's not about personal morality, it's just human nature, and some people say that selfishness is because education isn't enough. But if acquired education can change human nature, then I believe that the ** people who have also received nine years of compulsory education should have been ashamed to return to their mother's womb and dare not come out to meet people.
In this context. In 1959 there was a severe natural disaster.
In 1960, the mortality rate in nine counties of Xinyang exceeded 100%, and theoretically speaking, natural disasters occurred that year, but the per capita food supply was still higher than in 1949, so in principle, there was no starvation to death. Taking 10,000 steps back, even if the peasants are really short of grain, there will still be a large amount of grain reserves in the local treasury, and it will completely avoid a large-scale famine and a situation in which people die of starvation.
But why did people in nine counties starve to death? The numbers are cold, but each one is a living life.
You must know that at this time, the people in the city still have a ration system, and even some old people in the city take ** recalls, thinking that they could eat enough back then, and the so-called "starvation to death" incident did not happen at all. So much so that some people still look forward to the beauty of the big collective.
But the countryside is a different look! As we mentioned earlier, in order to implement the supply system, sufficient material support is required. But where do these supplies come from? Don't say it was back then, I'm afraid that according to today's productivity, there is no way to ration everyone for free, right?
When the ultra-leftists recalled that they had enough to eat and had never been hungry, they did not know that the pressure fell on the peasants.
At that time, when such a big "contradiction between supply and demand" appeared, in order to maintain some false "reputations" and to advocate flashy and untruthful doctrines, some officials still falsely reported grain output to the province when there was a serious drought.
Lu Xianwen is a typical case, for the sake of that kind of illusory "honor", he did not proceed from reality, and seriously violated the principle of seeking truth from facts. The secretary of the county party committee set a high target and asked the secretary of the county party committee to find a way to requisition grain from the peasants. The men below took away the last rations and seeds of the peasants.
The tragedy was the result.
Some people say that there were no so-called vested interests in those days, and they are more grateful for the rationing system back then, while singing about the correctness of ultra-left ideas. But they don't know that matter cannot be created out of thin air. Suffering is just transferred from them to others.
Some people also asked, was the peasants stupid back then? They don't know how to escape the famine? But are the peasants so stupid that they don't know how to escape? Let's move on (you can also check the specific details yourself):
For those who dared to resist, they were detained and beaten by Lu Xianwen, who abused torture and disregarded human life. Some commune cadres even beat people with their own hands, and Ma Longshan, secretary of the county party committee, beat people to death.
Later, in order to cover up their crimes, they imposed a strict lockdown on ** to prevent the news from leaking. For this reason, the Xinyang Prefectural Committee also held a special meeting to let all post offices strictly investigate, and all letters sent to Beijing were seized, so as to prevent the masses from writing letters to ** to reflect the disaster, and finally seized as many as tens of thousands of letters.
In order to survive, the peasants wanted to go out to escape the famine, but in order to prevent the news of starvation from spreading, the Xinyang Prefectural Committee instructed all counties to set up posts everywhere to block them, and ordered: As long as anyone left Xinyang, all were arrested and beaten.
In the end, a large number of farmers in Xinyang area died unnaturally, which attracted the attention of the Ministry of Health, and after in-depth investigation, it was found that the local situation of starvation was very serious.
The Xinyang incident was officially characterized as a serious consequence of the "Great Leap Forward", the people's communization movement, and the "anti-rightist" struggle.
And Lu Xianwen's group received limited punishment from the law.
Figure: "Decision on the Punishment of Lu Xianwen for Crimes and Crimes in the "Xinyang Incident" (partial).
Our country has also embarked on the line of reform and opening up, and after many ups and downs, under the correct leadership of the party, it has finally ushered in the light.
The harm of the ultra-left has also given us a glimpse of the humanitarian crises one after another. The reason for their failure lies in their misunderstanding of human nature. They do not deeply realize that the core of privatization lies in unleashing human "greed", "creativity" and "positivity". It is precisely because of this "greed" that the "elite" in human beings constantly creates materials, creates wealth, and creates productive forces. In the end, the overall productivity will increase, and in this state, whether it is the working class, the bourgeoisie, and the bureaucratic class, can achieve a win-win situation.
But in collectivism, people lose their legitimate reward for "greed". But that doesn't mean greed is gone. Lu Xianwen is a typical example, he just transformed greed into greed for "power" and "honor". To get this "right" and "honor", it is necessary to take it away from others. If you say that his greed is only greed for power, not material greed, this statement is also not true. Otherwise, why didn't Lu Xianwen starve to death, but the villagers who had no rights?
Therefore, to reveal the true face of the ultra-left, there is no so-called equality at all, but just another kind of distorted greed. Again, of course, this greed has nothing to do with morality.
Due to various reasons, such as changes in the social and economic situation, changes in the demographic structure, the widening gap between the rich and the poor, and the popularization of the Internet, some ultra-leftists have the opportunity to be eager to try.
They took Sima Nan, Wen Tiejun, and Lu Qiyuan as their sustenance, but in fact they wanted to carry out some degree of restoration. Although some of the vested interests of those years were born in the era of the Great Famine, they did not suffer from the Great Famine. This is the main reason why they are bent on returning to the pre-reform and opening up era.
However, the older generation of academic classes represented by Sima Nan and Wen Tiejun, because they grew up in the decade when the college entrance examination was abolished, their academic theories were often self-contained, self-circulating, self-justifying, and gradually decoupled from reality. Therefore, the gap left in the academic aspect just gives the "sandwich fans" an opportunity to take advantage of them and regard them as their spokespersons.
There are quite a few young people who do not know why, because of their limited knowledge and limited cognition, are deeply influenced by the ideas of these old intellectuals and those with vested interests back then, thus forming a trend of following the trend.
Although I am the number one fan of Mr. Sima Nan, I am by no means a "chuck fan". Therefore, it is necessary to draw a clear line between friend and foe, and I admire the independent critical spirit of Mr. Sima Nan. In particular, I admire Mr. Sima Nan's eloquence, learning ability, and execution. For a person in his sixties and seventies, it is difficult for ordinary people to keep up with the rhythm of young people and the Internet, which is one of the reasons why I paid attention to Mr. Sima Nan many years ago.
There is a saying on the Internet, saying: The extreme left harms the country, and the extreme right hates the country.
In fact, the ultra-left is not just as simple as harming the country, and the ultra-right is not just as simple as hating the country! The extreme right is often the trigger for the emergence of the extreme left. There is no hatred without a reason in the world, and there is no accusation without a reason.
The existence of the ultra-left will cause great harm to social and economic development, labor demand, innovation, etc. For example, in 2023, the United States will launch GPT4. The ultra-left is still debating how far ahead the technology of thirty or fifty years ago was. Blind self-confidence and the blow to the innovation model have made us overtake others in the field of artificial intelligence.
Isn't it just artificial intelligence, says the far left? But history is always circulating, and they will eventually use their actions to make others suffer the bitter consequences.
Ultra-leftists often deviate from the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, fail to proceed from reality in everything, and often violate the objective laws of nature and history. Everyone knew that their claims were wrong and harmful, but people were forced to resist because of their ignorance. In the face of those obviously harmful and wrong remarks, many people cannot and dare not openly oppose them. In the last century, because of these reasons, there have been many tragedies.
However, the deep-seated reason for the emergence of the ultra-left group is again emphasized to be because of the greed of the ultra-right. The mistake of the extreme right is to ignore the finite nature of resources, and excessive greed has encroached on the survival opportunities of other people's offspring, who should not be born with "original sin". It is precisely because of the mutual incomprehension between vested interests and ordinary people that this world has bred some extreme and deformed ideas.
In addition, the widening gap between the rich and the poor and the pressure of society have made people's thinking more and more extreme. That's why I support solving this contradiction by collecting taxes and giving money to the people indiscriminately. Because only in this way can we not only maintain the innovative model of the main body of capital, but also break the extreme gap between the rich and the poor, and also reflect the superiority of socialism. (As for the inflation caused by the distribution of money, the problems of money coming from ** are all in my other article "Can Sending Money Directly to the People Save China's Economy?") has a detailed analysis. ）
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