Recently, the anti-corruption in the medical field is in full swing, and there have been nest cases and collapse corruption, and the amount and scope involved are staggering. He also praised the country's determination to fight corruption, and it takes courage to scrape bones and heal poison and self-revolution.
Corruption is a stubborn disease in traditional society, and successive emperors have racked their brains and tried their best to control corruption. Why have these anti-corruption measures failed to address the root causes in China's history?
The simple reason is that none of these measures goes to the basics.
Corruption in traditional Chinese society is mostly a form of institutional corruption. It arises for the following reasons.
The first reason is the mechanism of social operation in which "power determines everything". From the Qin Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, Chinese history was basically a history of the strengthening of imperial autocracy. And the imperial autocracy itself is the greatest corruption.
The fundamental feature of the imperial autocracy is that the emperor does not exist for the state, on the contrary, the state exists for the emperor. In the words of Huang Zongxi, the absolute monarchy that began in the Qin Dynasty was "to return all the benefits of the world to oneself, and all the harm of the world to others."
Hegel, on the other hand, said that traditional China was "universal slavery." Only the emperor is free, and the others, including the prime minister, are his slaves." This sentence is annotated in Chinese history books: Jing Xiang, the prime minister of Later Liang, once said to Emperor Liang: "Although the minister is called the prime minister, the old slave of the Shizhu clan." ("History of the Old Five Dynasties, Jingxiang Biography") said that the state is the emperor's feast, the emperor's family is the only eater, the officials of the world are the waiters responsible for serving the dishes, and the common people are the food on the table.
This is the so-called "exhausting the wealth of the world to serve oneself", "using the breadth of the four seas to use one's husband", "taking what people like, and taking what others are fighting for". This state of affairs is, of course, the greatest corruption.
In the words of Huang Zongxi, the imperial autocracy is "the great evil under the world." In Montesquieu's words: "The principle of despotism is constantly corrupting, because this principle is corrupt in nature." ”
The essence of anti-corruption should be implemented in the power of supervision, and only when power is limited and supervised can the wind of corruption be braked.