Writing this article is mainly influenced by such a phenomenon - whenever someone remembers the arduous and great era of new China's infrastructure construction, some people use various yin and yang strange tones to satirize and ridicule.
In fact, these are two unrelated topics.
The people who remember it are because they know the hardships of China's development, the hardships of Mao Zedong and other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation, and the people of china who have endured the humiliation and burden of the rejuvenation of their homeland and the nation.
Critics, however, ignore these contributions, judge only by the measures of individual happiness, contrast the poverty and hardship of the time with the comfort of wealth and comfort now, and thus throw the pot of their suffering to the collective system of the time, and attack the era with the system.
These two voices, no doubt, are more from the elders of that era.
The general dispute begins here, and of course, there are a small number of people who remember the old iron of the previous era from the perspective of ethos, social morality and bureaucracy.
Objectively speaking, whether it is remembrance or dissatisfaction, both sides have factual basis, not empty words, but after careful analysis, you will always find some clues, the dissatisfied side, the pattern is always small, in their heads, there has never been a rigorous view of history, just based on personal fate to make a judgment of the rise and fall of society.
My feeling is that some of these people should be affected by exercise, and some of them are just unaware of the phenomenon.
As a descendant, because he has always loved to read books on the Internet, he knew the existence of these public opinions very early, and at that time, at the end of the world, the two sides quarreled over the "five cents" and "cents" randomly. The infighting among intellectuals is simply jaw-dropping!
Sometimes when you think about it, this seems to be a stubborn disease in the intellectuals of the past generations in China, when the country needs to be twisted into a rope to work together, they will always have ten thousand reasons to start to stir up, the complexity of intellectuals, really make people feel confused. Turning over history, whether it is the revolutionary period or the construction era, they are the most powerful, and they are also the most destructive. However, it is worth mentioning that as long as they can "fight without breaking, and be harmonious and different", it is a great benefit to the country and the people.
For these phenomena, I originally did not think about the pen, Gein wrote such an article, accidentally failed to pass the review, it is useless work, but it happened to be two days and two seventy-year-old elders chatted about this topic, so I decided to give it a try.
After returning to the countryside during the epidemic, he lost his job because he could not go out, and he is still idle. In this stay, there were two small talk about the Mao Zedong era.
The first time was with my uncle, the second time with a friend's old father.
Two small talks, for the evaluation of the first thirty years, the attitude of the two old people is diametrically opposed, the bad one is my uncle, and the positive one is my friend's father.
Why this situation occurs, I will tell the old iron people about it.
My uncle said it badly for a reason, and it had something to do with his family. In the old society, my uncle's family belonged to the landlord and squire family, and my grandfather went to school and had a culture, and he still became a local official of the Kuomintang when he did not want to be an official (people have a good reputation, and in the local area, it can be seen that although they are landlords, they have not done evil things, this is not because of family relations to defend, it is indeed heard many old people say before). Saying that he did not want to be an official, it was not a nonsense, as early as many years ago, I heard the old man in the village tell that he had become an official three times, escaped three times, and each time he was arrested and returned.
Oh, when the Kuomintang was defeated and retreated in 49 years, I couldn't imagine it, and actually arrested people as officials!
After the liberation of Yunnan, because of this experience, my grandfather was killed and raided on the day of his arrest.
After Grandpa left, my grandmother took my mother and two uncles to live, and every three to five grandmothers still had to accept criticism, and their family was naturally very bitter. At that time, my brother-in-law was still swaddled, my uncle entered the "hard work team" at the age of 12, and my mother was seven or eight years old, and every day she went to the dug field to cut out sweet potato potatoes and go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, and life was quite hard.
Such a family, because of the class struggle, naturally they will not feel good. Anyone who knows history knows this.
For the fate of my uncle's family, I am naturally very sympathetic in my heart, after all, whoever encounters it will be afraid when I think about it. But sympathy is sympathy, if from the perspective of the big history, the policy of the Communist Party is more beneficial to the people, because in China at that time, there were too many people who could not eat, so that more people could eat, the violent revolution of the proletariat was naturally more in line with the justice of the human world. Abandoning emotions, no matter how much sadness can not withstand the overall situation, after all, the landlord class was always only a small part of Chinese society at that time. On this point, when we look at the story of the young Mao Zedong, we can also get an understanding of the contradiction between him and his father. Mao Zedong's father was not the property of a rich peasant who had been abducted and deceived, and Mr. Mao Shunsheng was also a bit of hard-earned family property, but the son who was concerned about the toiling masses still changed his father's life, so Mao Zedong betrayed his father. But compared with his family conflicts, history later proved the justice and greatness of Mao Zedong's life choices.
If a person is in the world of the ego all his life, how can he understand these words? I think it will not be, we ordinary people are generally difficult to reach the height of Mao Zedong's thought, so they can only feel the pain of their fate after being changed.
My friend's father was a positive, and he didn't shy away from the fact that life was very hard at that time. The elderly even have such an experience, we may wish to take a look.
In 1959, the old man was in the fourth grade of primary school, but due to hunger, he could not sit still in the classroom, so he chose to abandon school and go everywhere to find food. For the sake of nonsense, I never went to study again. At that time, they dropped out of school together, and heard him say that he was not the only one, there were many more.
Speaking of these years, the old man was very sentimental, he told me:
"It's really hungry, so hungry that you can't sleep on the bunk at night, that kind of feeling that you younger generations will never experience."
But after the old man talked to me about this, he turned to me and told me that he did not complain about the Communist Party Mao Zedong.
Why?
In the words of the old man:
"How can we resent, the Communist Party has not been able to liberate these peasant families, this is the first point (his ancestors poor peasants);
Second, we are hungry, really hungry, but we know that after many years of fighting, new China was built on the basis of poverty and poverty. If you say that the Communist Party has nothing to eat with us, then we must have opinions, the problem is really not like that, the situation at that time was that the whole country had nothing, not without division. Be reasonable, you can't hate this and hate that because the country is poor.
After saying this, the old man told me his views on Mao Zedong, and he said that he had no culture, unlike us, but the basic principle was understood. I summed up his words, which is probably what it meant:
You see Chairman Mao, for the sake of the common people, his family has been sacrificed, and those who attacked him should think about what he wanted? Could it be that some people are revolutionizing and sacrificing their families for their own benefit? Moreover, even though Chairman Mao is great, can he say that he cannot let go of any flaws? Great people are also people, the country has so many things for him to do, he can't know everything that happens below in time, right? Everything has a process, the crooked monk below is chanting the sutra, he also needs some time to know!
This is the voice of an ordinary person.
These words came from the people who lived in the hungry life, and this person was still a person with no culture.
After listening to the old man's words, I felt very much, and I thought that if they knew more about Mao Zedong's experience, they would have more respect for Mao Zedong than his current attitude. Let me give you an example, for example, Mao Zedong was already an alternate member of the Kuomintang Central Committee at the time of the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation, when he was in a high position, serving as the acting director of the Propaganda Department of the Kuomintang Central Committee, with a monthly salary of 260 yuan. With a high salary, good food and drink in the Shanghai metropolis, is it not fragrant? Such a person, just for his personal future, what revolution does he use to make?
Of course, I did not tell him on this point, because I just wanted to take a good look at his views on Comrade Mao Zedong.
In this way, two people, no one denies that the days after the founding of the country were poor, but because of the deviation of thinking, two completely different attitudes appeared towards that period of time. The caretaker can judge for himself the merits of their understanding.
After talking about the thoughts of the two old people, let's talk about social issues.
If you and I have a rigorous view of history, we will naturally find that whether it is in the first thirty years of arduous times or after the booming reform to today, you have to say that no problem is impossible, and any perfect theory, when we use it in practice, there will always be problems, so problems cannot exist. For example, in the first thirty years, there were problems of "communist style" and "exaggerated style", but after the reform, the collusion between officials and businessmen abounded. These are the problems. You cannot erase the different states of social wealth and poverty.
If we do not have the prejudice of the times, in fact, we will find that whether it is the first thirty years or the last forty years, the cause of the problem stems from one word - bureaucracy.
In fact, this kind of thing has always been attached great importance to our Party, which has been something that the CCP has been vigilant about since the revolutionary era, but for thousands of years, this seems to have become a social disease. Think about it, even Zhu Yuanzhang's kind of person who is determined to kill can't do anything, and we can imagine its survivability for ourselves.
It is no exaggeration to say that the social crisis of any era is related to bureaucracy.
If you have understood the law of historical cycles, you will find such a law, every time the dynastic crisis comes, in fact, the biggest destructive force is the middle layer of society. What is the middle class, what I mean by the middle layer, that is, the officials and the middle class in the social class. People are animals of interest, and once they have an opportunity to take advantage of it, they will plan and wait for an opportunity to seize social interests. Generally speaking, the upper echelons of society do not have to worry about the problem of interests, because all the initiative is in their hands, so they have natural advantages and there is no need to stir; the bottom of society, on the contrary, is naturally at a disadvantage, resulting in them only seeking stability and harmony, because they cannot reach the level of interests, and they can live a good life. But the middle level is different, they have the opportunity to achieve class leapfrogging, and these people have a certain social status, so in order to achieve stratification, they will find a way, so that they will buy off officials and work with them to achieve the exploitation of interests. If officials had a position and talked about conscience, these things would naturally not have happened, but for thousands of years, how many administrative officials in ancient and modern China and abroad have been able to keep the bottom line of morality. Man is not moved in the face of interests, and it is not too much to send him a word of "greatness".
If you understand this question, you will know why the Mao Zedong era always emphasized the prevention of bureaucracy and the reason why Communists should give prominence to politics. The people's democratic dictatorship is not an empty phrase; it is a method that Mao Zedong has been studying to break the law of historical cycles. If we do not understand this, we may wish to review the dialogue between Mao Zedong and the famous democrat Mr. Huang Yanpei in the Cave Dwellings of Yan'an during the New Democratic Period.
Huang Yanpei:
"I have been born for more than sixty years, and what I have heard and heard is not to say, but what I have seen with my own eyes is really called "its rise and fall, and its death is also sudden." One person, one family, one group, one political party, one place, and even one country, many have not been able to jump out of the dominance of this cyclical rate. When everyone first rises, they are all difficult and difficult, concentrated, no one does not care about anything, no one does not work hard, and strives to find a life from death, so they all appear to be full of vitality and new weather. When the environment gradually improves, the spirit is gradually put down. Some of them, because they last for a long time, naturally have inert attacks, from the minority to the majority, to the cultivation of the atmosphere, although vigorous, can not be reversed, and can not be remedied. A history, or political slackness, or the death of people, or the pursuit of glory and humiliation, in short, did not jump out of this historical cycle rate. ...... When the Kuomintang first arose, it was not also a revolutionary party that attracted the attention of all! Will the Communist Party repeat the mistakes of its predecessors? I hope that your party can find a new way out of the domination of this historical cycle rate. ”
Mao Zedong:
"Just as the so-called 'Gentleman's Zee, the fifth generation and the beheading', 'rich and noble do not last three generations', also contains these truths that you said, sir. Our Communist Party has found a new way to jump out of this historical cycle rate. This new path is democracy. Only by allowing the people to supervise the government can the government dare not slacken off; only when everyone rises up and takes responsibility, will no one perish in the government. ”
Unfortunately, the great Comrade Mao Zedong still left regrets in vain.
Huang Yanpei
Of course, people who want to read history can understand the law of historical cycles, some of them play the piano to the ox, and they play the malay erhu, but I believe that there are still countless benevolent people in this world who are exploring this road.
When you let go of your paranoid prejudices, you will naturally find that whether it is the problem of the first thirty years of the founding of the country or the problem of the gap between the rich and the poor after the reform, it is actually the disaster caused by this thing. Because of the deception of these intermediaries, the country and the people have invisibly suffered many unnecessary bitter fruits.
Now, the familiar atmosphere of the people has returned, and since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, you can go to the streets and alleys to interview an ordinary person, and he will give you a happy answer.
Well, having said the mistakes of bureaucracy, it's time to talk about the first thirty years of the founding of the country.
We have gained happiness in the reopening, but have we ever thought of a question, is the reopening opened? If there is no style of a big country, will people bird us? Those friends who are superstitious about capitalism, you should think carefully about how many countries have developed after World War II, how many countries have developed after World War II, how many countries have developed and have independent sovereignty, and how many countries have become independent in national defense and military. The answer is obvious, in addition to socialist China, can you give an example? India and China are in a similar situation, India is almost the same as the United States, but how is it developing?
Why did the capitalist countries develop before World War II, burn and rob, and make war money, if they were pulled to the same running line as us, do you think they would still be so crazy? Think about it, when we founded the country in 1949, how many years did the United States develop and how many years did Britain develop? (I know that when it comes to this, some people will give examples of the two little guys of Japan and South Korea, and if you don't want to give up, you can turn to my previous article "Why Chairman Mao Zedong Said Capitalism Can't Work in China", which has already been explained.) ）
The development of a country cannot be achieved overnight, especially in a multi-regional and multi-ethnic country like China (small countries I dare not talk about, because they can choose to be vassals and lose some rights and interests). The reason why the reform and opening can be carried out smoothly is inextricably linked to the efforts made in the first thirty years of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Let me make an analogy, if you want to build a house, the first step is not to find the ground first, after having the land, is it necessary to go down the cornerstone first, if you do not complete these two steps, you want to build walls, columns, beams and rafters to cover the roof, do you think this house can be built? In the same way, if the country wants to develop, should it first engage in construction before pursuing economic benefits? Does it cost money to engage in construction?
Since the late Qing Dynasty, China has been devastated by internal and external wars, the people of society are not happy, the people are hungry, this state of affairs, until the founding of New China in 1949 has not changed. After the founding of New China, the older generation of proletarian revolutionaries headed by Mao Zedong gave the peasants a new life through land reform, completed the dedication of national bourgeois industry and commerce to the country through the united front, and improved the welfare of workers.
After taking this step, the next step was to complete the large-scale construction of industrial infrastructure and the confrontation between the Western camp such as US imperialism, so as to gain the support of the Soviet Union. It can be said that every step taken by New China has come through all kinds of difficulties. Such a country with nothing, if it is not careful, will lose everything. But because of Mao Zedong's correct thinking, we have been able to achieve results in every step of the way, despite the difficulties, until we have laid a solid foundation for the rise of great powers and solved the basic problems for the reform. Of course, it is undeniable that in such a process, we have the mistakes caused by bureaucracy during the "three years of natural disasters" and the political stagnation caused by the "Gang of Four" group in the ten years of the "Cultural Revolution", but friends, regarding the development of industrial infrastructure and GDP, since 1961, we have been growing and have not declined. On this point, everyone can search for themselves, which is no longer confidential.
When we look at the progress of an era, we need to face it with an objective view of history, and we must not bring personal destiny into history. As mentioned earlier, in any era, we cannot fail to find a little problem, and the evaluation of an era's progress or regression depends on who it wants to account for the greatest proportion of its achievements and problems. The first thirty years are bitter, no one denies it, this is the credit that our descendants should remember, in a word, people can not forget the original, "the predecessors planted trees and then people are cool", but anyone with a little social morality can understand this principle. But if you have to say that the first thirty years were nothing, then it is over, because everyone who has read a few books knows that it is precisely because of the hard struggle of the older generation that we have atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs in national defense, 156 impressive industrial infrastructures in industry, countless water conservancy projects in agriculture, and so on.
All of this is the support for our descendants to be able to obtain happiness and well-being.
Objective evaluation shows that every era of New China is making progress, and under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the reason why the poor and white-skinned red regime has been able to reach its current position in the world is inseparable from the arduous struggle of our party, state, and people. I guess the answer is self-evident, two words: "No". Our ancestors warned us not to be proud, humility is a virtue, but as a Chinese today, we can proudly look up at the world, of course, no matter how high the achievements, we can not be complacent, people must always walk on the road.
At the end of the article, borrowing a sentence from Mr. Sun Wen, the father of the country, to make a falsification, we should do this in the future:
Even if the development is efficient, comrades still need to work hard!