One
Recently, Lao Hu has been very uncalm, of course, his uncalmness is intermittent as always. It's just that it's happening more and more frequently lately.
This uneasiness stems from his growing anxiety as he feels that netizens are becoming more and more like what he defines as "ultra-left."
In the three days from 12.24 to 12.26 alone, he was particularly restless.
12.24 He was unhappy because many young people in China no longer loved the "Saintly" holiday, which should be translated as Christmas as in Hong Kong, and gave it a new commemorative meaning. 12.24 is the anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers making dumplings for American soldiers in Changjin Lake.
This made him feel seriously uncomfortable, and he began to write small essays about fictional confrontation and shooting targets in the void, labeling these netizens who commemorated the victory of the Volunteer Army but was only a "Christmas Eve" in the West as a violation of the country's religious policy.
On 12.25, Lao Hu may not be very happy. Because young people in China are becoming more and more indifferent to the holiday of Christmas, this year's Christmas atmosphere is the coldest. I read an article titled "This year's Christmas is so abnormal, it's so quiet that it's terrible, China's social climate has really changed" said: "This year's Christmas Eve (December 24) and Christmas Day (December 25) were particularly deserted. It's very different from previous years (three or five years ago). ”
The author said that this year, almost no one around me talked about Christmas. The momentum of shopping malls and e-commerce promotions is also less. This is highly relevant to "nobody talks about it".
On this day of 12.26, Hu may have a more complicated mood.
In the early years, Hu used a lot of pen and ink to talk about the mistakes of great men on this day every year. Clear-eyed people know that Lao Hu's so-called commemoration, the focus and even the purpose are different from ours, we are to remember, he is more like a small move in the name of commemoration, so that everyone can add to the blockage.
No one is perfect, but why does Hu only like to stare at one person's mistakes? This kind of selective double standard is not seeking truth from facts.
Two
Recently, Lao Hu's performance has become less and less "pertinent". Because the situation in China's public opinion field is less and less developing in the direction that Lao Hu hopes.
Netizens are becoming more and more self-confident in the nation, and more and more people are rebuilding their belief in communism, and some people are worried and anxious.
After the U.S. trade war against China in 2018, Hu Ke said: "My biggest concern is not how much economic loss China will suffer, but that China must not be forced to be conservative and left by external pressure." ”
Recently, in Lao Hu's view, there are more and more leftists in China, and more and more people meet the criteria of "ultra-left" as defined by him.
Most of the people who support him now in his comment section are the haters of the Kuomintang who criticized him as "ultra-leftist" back then. He used to be an opponent, but now he finds out that he is his teammate.
Lao Hu was also labeled as an "ultra-leftist" by people who were more right-right than his "performance" back then, because he was set up as a nationalist person at that time.
Regarding his character, there is actually a lot of water. Many people now understand this. His nationalism is at least partly a formality, liberal at heart. The liberals are roughly what we call the Kuomintang-hating Party. Because liberals believe that the theoretical basis for hating the country and loving the country is wrong is liberalism.
I'm not an afterthought, and I've pointed out since 2014 at the latest that his nationalism is a show.
Liberals are pseudo-liberals, in the name of freedom, with the least tolerance for different views. It is the communists who believe in Marxism who really pursue the realization of the free development of man, because Marx predicted that another definition of communist society is the "association of free people", and the communist movement is to realize the all-round development of human freedom.
There are also pseudo-nationalists among the nationalists, with nationalism as the skin and liberalism as the backbone.
Usually it looks quite normal, but suddenly at a critical time, I will give you a look from behind.
In China's political spectrum, there are three main groups from left to right: socialists or communists, nationalists, and liberals.
Among them, the liberals have two characteristics: one is that the content of hating the Kuomintang is particularly high, and the other is that they are particularly fond of attacking their opponents with "ultra-left" hats.
Our focus today is on "ultra-left" and who likes to use the political label "ultra-left". We are trying to get this issue to the point today.
Recently, "ultra-left" hats have been flying all over the sky, which has a lot to do with the frequent use of this big V named Lao Hu, who used dozens of "ultra-left" in two small essays to attack those viewers and netizens who criticize the film based on Zhang Guimei for "replacing party spirit with human nature" and dissolving Zhang Guimei's communist beliefs.
What is Lao Hu's definition of "ultra-left" standards? In fact, there is no standard, and the main thing is to define it as you want and according to your needs, but in fact it is to use him as a frame of reference, and he has the final say on the standard.
"Extreme left" is one of the most frequently used political labels in recent decades, because politics is lethal and the most abused and generalized political hat.
According to China's political spectrum, the more right-sided people are, the more they like to attack their opponents with this hat. The liberals of Lao Hu, that is, what we call the Hate Kuomintang, like to use this hat the most, and they are ruthless, and even Lao Hu has been labeled as "ultra-left" by them.
It was still when the public discourse power on the front line of the Internet ideological struggle was particularly strong, and Lao Hu did not need to rush from the second line to the first line, and at that time he and the newspaper he worked for were still set up with nationalism, so in the eyes of the hating party at that time, Lao Hu was ultra-left. This also shows that as long as the position on the right reaches the level of liberals, nationalism is also "ultra-left" in their eyes.
In Lao Hu's vocabulary, there is no concept of hating the Kuomintang, compradors, and traitors. He likes to call the group liberal. Although this group attacked him the most in the early years, he did not hate this group and would never say that this group was far right. At that time, the left side rarely criticized Lao Hu, and many people thought that he was still based on positive energy, but Lao Hu was not less disgusted with socialists, such as the small actions he took every year to commemorate Chairman Mao's birthday.
Fang Fang's writing of a novel to deny land reform is tantamount to denying the legitimacy of the revolution led by our party, and in the most difficult period of fighting the epidemic, writing a diary to smear China's anti-epidemic actions, in the eyes of Lao Hu, this is still a "liberal" and a voice that society should be tolerant.
But with the decline of public knowledge, Hu's public performance (not his actual position) has become closer and closer to the liberals, and the liberals (the Hate the Kuomintang) have made fewer and fewer political accusations against him as "ultra-left". The only plausible explanation is that those who oppose him now see him more and more pleasing to the eye, and less and less of them see him as an opponent. In his self-media comment area, those who once hated him and scolded him for treating him as a representative of nationalism have now become the basic plate that supports him, and it is this part of the people who often shout "old Hu Zhongke".
Although these people do not have a good position, they are extremely politically sensitive.
When Fang Fang was pointed out by thousands of people and everyone shouted and beaten, it was he who stood up and spoke to Fang Fang.
The humiliation sparked public outrage, and it was he who called for forgiveness.
There are many such things, and they will naturally find that although Lao Hu was not the same as them before, when it comes to the critical time, he says what they love to hear. They immediately understood: this special meow was not an enemy, it was clearly a friendly army.
As the public knowledge on the front line has lost its influence in public opinion, Lao Hu can no longer cover the bones of liberalism with the skin of nationalism as in the past.
Liberals also need someone to carry the flag. When it is known that the five scum of the war are being warned, it is necessary for the original people on the second line to come forward more.
For example, when the state completed the revision of the counter-espionage law, and those haters of the country began to tremble, but did not dare to openly oppose it, at this time, it was Lao Hu who stood up and made irresponsible remarks about the mainland's efforts to strengthen counter-espionage.
Lao Hu did what he said the liberals wanted to do, but sometimes they couldn't do it or it was inconvenient to do, and he did a lot of this kind of "charcoal in the snow" thing. Moreover, people do not seek fame, and often carry the notoriety of grass on the wall, which is not understood by the "liberals" that Lao Hu vigorously defends, for example, when Lao Hu sent charcoal to Fang Fang, Fang Fang despised Lao Hu and was ashamed to be with him.
This forbearance is not something that ordinary people can do, but Lao Hu has done it.
As the voices of these hateful parties attacking Lao Hu became quieter and quieter, the voices praising "Lao Hu to the point" became louder and louder, and the frequency of Lao Hu's use of "ultra-left" also increased.
Before Lao Hu, the most frequent and most impressive use of the "ultra-left" label was the writer Fang Fang who Lao Hu helped him.
The battle of public opinion in 2020 is still fresh in many people's minds. In the face of critics, Fang Fang is "ultra-leftist" and does not leave his mouth. Anyone who makes Fang Fang look unpleasant can get an "ultra-left" hat.
Like Lao Hu, Fang Fang also uses himself as a frame of reference, sets his own standards, and freely decides who is "ultra-left", and while giving wholesale political labels to others, he also accuses others and fills up the "double standard": I can set fires, but you can't light lights.
Fang Fang's characteristics can also be seen in Lao Hu, a few days ago Weibo also said, "There is a very bad atmosphere on the Internet now, that is, there is no tolerance for people with different views...... Buckle the big political hat and put a person to death. The words were still in his ears, and the words were still circling, so Lao Hu picked up the "ultra-left" hat that Fang Fang had not used for a long time and started wholesale.
But there is one point that is not as good as Lao Hu, who pays more attention to the maintenance of self-image when attacking others. He does not target specific people, which means that it is wrong to engage in "retail" for specific people, and he only engages in "wholesale" and does not do "retail", so he is legitimate and reasonable.
While proclaiming that I am not going to label anyone, I say that you are all ultra-left.
Fang Fang and Lao Hubi are at most a Zuo Lengzen, and their skills are still almost meaningless.
Fang Fang has been abandoned and marginalized by the torrent of the times, and Lao Hu can still be a tide maker now, but Fang Fang doesn't have to be in such a hurry, because what she hasn't done, Lao Hu will do it for her, and the wholesale business of "ultra-left" hats will not stop.
Three
At this point, we need to clarify a few concepts related to the ultra-left. Because, now and before, the concepts of extreme left and "left" and extreme right and right are often confused. Take this opportunity to do a simple grooming.
Let's start with left and right.
Regardless of how Europe and the United States define it, the criterion for dividing left and right in China is very simple: those who support socialism are left, and those who support capitalism are right.
The discourse of the left and right has been deconstructed, and many people feel uncomfortable in their eyes when they see it, so some people have changed the name to the left and the right, and the political color is slightly softer. But in fact, there is no need to resist these conceptual conditionings in general, this psychology comes from the ideological steel seal implanted in you by others. The great man has a point: where there are people, there are left, middle and right. This is a very useful trichotomy for analyzing society. If you change the concept, the rule of thirds works just as well. For example, good, bad, good and bad.
Let's talk about "left" and right.
Somebody is divided into left, center, and right, so it can be used to subdivide each group. For example, Liao Zhongkai is a well-known leftist representative of the Kuomintang, who adhered to Sun Yat-sen's policy of uniting Russia and the Communist Party, but was unfortunately assassinated by the rightists of the Kuomintang. The right wing of the Kuomintang was the gang that assassinated Liao Zhongkai, and the famous "Xishan Conference faction", and later the representative became Chiang Kai-shek.
But the concepts of "left" and "right" are often used by communist organizations for internal subdivisions. "Leftist" leaning means that we do not have the conditions to do it forcibly. Right-leaning means that the conditions have been met, and they are still hesitating. In this regard, the great man has a particularly popular classification: "What is left-leaning? What is right-leaning? It is like a woman giving birth to a doll, and when she is pressed out in seven months, she is left." After nine months, he was not allowed to come out, and he was right. ”
The "left" and rightist tendencies in the communist organizations are mainly a matter of methodology, and basically do not involve the question of stance; some people are impatient, some are conservative, but the stance is still revolutionary comrades. For example, Bogu, a representative of the "left" leaning, inflicted such serious losses on the party and the Red Army, but his mistake was a methodological error, not a question of position. Therefore, after the criticism and liquidation of the "leftist" political line, the liquidation of those "leftist" political representatives has not been carried out. Bogu was still a member of the Central Committee at the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
In a word, the "left" that we often hear is the radical in the communist organization, and the right is the conservative in the communist organization. This is how "left" blind activism and right-leaning opportunism came about.
If you drift to the right, you will not only be conservative in methodology, but will become right in stance. Then there will be a shift from right-leaning opportunism in left-wing organizations to a real right-wing, from supporting socialism to embracing capitalism.
Four
Now comes to the most important part of this article.
According to symmetry, there is the extreme left, and there is the extreme right.
To understand the extreme left and the extreme right, we need to grasp a key point: it is the extreme left and the extreme right that are connected, and although the forms are opposed, the nature may not be really opposite, and it is easy to change from the extreme left to the extreme right, and vice versa.
It depends on which side the trend of society is on. If society as a whole goes to the left, they become ultra-left. If society moves to the right, many of them will become far right.
There are so many such examples. There are so many that we suspect that the extreme left and the extreme right are the two sides of AB for some people, or their different manifestations in different periods. For example, the LD elements, the most famous martial arts organization in those years, were more leftist than anyone else at that time, and they took the lead in doing many bad things, but after they were denied in those ten years, some of them became the most active group to complain about that movement, and they couldn't do it right. What impressed me the most was a man surnamed Qin, who used to be a high-level member of the China Merchants Bureau, and who was very politically active 10 years ago and wanted to engage in constitutional government. This person was the big man in the LD organization back then. There are a lot of such typologies, but their fickleness is artificially obscured. Among them, the one called "Wu Market" is particularly typical, so I will say a few more words.
In the 1950s, Di Chaobai served as the director of the Economic Research Institute, and Lin Lifu served as a member of the branch. In 1958, the two were branded as the "Di Chaobai and Lin Lifu anti-party clique", and were rehabilitated in 1985. In 1958, Sun Yefang was transferred to the Economic Research Institute to take over the work, and during that campaign, it was designated as "recruiting surrender and rebelling". Lin Lifu's old friend Gu Zhun was also "rectified" again.
Wu Market is the person of this economic institute.
Economists, two economists who have been particularly consumed in recent decades, one is Sun Zhifang and the other is Gu Zhun. Wu Market is a representative of the Jianghu who has strengthened his status as "the first person in China's market economy" in the academic world through consumption.
Liu Hong, who used to be Wu's marketing assistant, directly questioned Wu's history in an open letter:
Some economists interviewed pointed out your performance at several major historical junctures: "marching toward science" in 1956, opposing the rightist movement in 1957, and criticizing Sun Yefang in the 1960s......
From 1956 to 1958, after the debate between the Youth League branch and the party branch of the "March to Science" of the Institute of Economics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, how many people were involved in the "Di (Chaobai) and Lin (Lifu) anti-party clique," or how many people suffered? How many people were in the Youth League branch? Who were the youth league members? Who filed the complaint with the higher-level party committee? Who contacted the "China Youth" magazine?
After Di Chaobai and Lin Lifu were rehabilitated, many people apologized to Lin Lifu, have you apologized, when, and in what way?
Lin Lifu's family wrote an article entitled "Also Say Lin Lifu and Gu Zhun" (Yangcheng Evening News, December 28, 2003), arguing that you had lied about the relationship between Lin Lifu and Gu Zhun and slandered Lin Lifu (your name was deleted when the article was published in the newspaper). What else do you have to add to this, in addition to what you have already said and written?
Is there any basis for saying that the content of this big-character poster led to Sun Yefang's seven-year imprisonment? What do you think?
Regarding Gu Zhun and Wu Market, Gu Zhun's daughter Gu Xiulin also publicly questioned Wu Market around 2015:
"Because this year is the 100th anniversary of my father, they are lifting out this 'sage' of the market economy created by Wu Gu Zhun to cover up the chicken feathers they threw on the ground. ”。 After that, Gu Xiulin asked further: "...... Wu Jinglian took advantage of my father's glorious position as the 'No. 1 disciple of the market economy' to twist Gu Zhun's 'planned economy can also use market regulation' into the first person of the 'market economy.' How can we interpret this by striking hard at the market regulation of the planned economy and praising and praising the first person in the market economy?"
In the interaction with netizens, Gu Xiulin further revealed, "Go ask Wu Jinglian, who has criticized Gu Zhun since 1957?" It seems that every word he says can be consumed by you......"
The propaganda of the mainstream media has been constantly reinforcing that Wu is a student of Sun Zhifang and Gu Zhun. For example, there is an article that reads: "On the afternoon of February 22, 1983, Sun Yefang died in Beijing. When Zhou Nan told Wu Jinglian on the other side of the ocean the news on the phone, he held the microphone tightly, closed his thin lips, and couldn't speak for a long time. This is after Gu Zhun's death, he lost another spiritual mentor. ”
Wu Jinglian also wrote a preface to "Gu Zhun Diary", which has such a sentence: The problem of what happens after Nala leaves has not been completely solved.
In the 80s of the last century, Wu Jinglian still advocated a planned economy, known as the "Wu Plan", but in the 90s, the policy changed, and he also changed into a "Wu market".
What is the real far-left and far-right? It's not that complicated. If you look at one of them, you can understand the characteristics of people like them.
They are good at speculation and like to be radical and go to extremes. When they see society to the left, they become ultra-left. Seeing society to the right, they become the extreme right. Some people call them "wind school", which means "wall grass".
It's this kind of person who doesn't care if the society goes left or right, they have to be extreme trendsetters.
Five
Now there is also a character who fits this characteristic, and he is our nonsense.
Lao Hu is radical, and we ordinary people can't compare. The most famous one was the clamoring for the downing of the plane of US House Speaker Lopezi. As far as his information channel is concerned, he actually knew that it was impossible for the mainland to do this at that time, but he still had to write like this, and everyone thought that he had inside information, so they all believed it, and his expectations were instigated by him. Luo Pexi's plane landed at Taipei Airport, and there was a sigh on the Internet. Disappointment, pessimism, dissatisfaction and mistrust spread. For another example, when the epidemic was at its most pessimistic, he proposed that it was the "best window period" to attack Taiwan. It's all about knowing that it's impossible, rather than creating such a topic, so that everyone has high expectations, and then the expectations can't be realized, and then there will be disappointment.
This person knows a lot about psychological expectation management.
Does he sometimes seem hawkish, a lot like a particularly radical nationalist? But he turns around and is infinitely tolerant of contrarian nationalists like the other side.
A true nationalist would definitely not have such an attitude.
Lao Hu's horizontal jump from radical to conservative has a large amplitude and is able to jump from the most radical to the most conservative. If Lao Hu had experienced a major transition from left to right or from right to left in society as a whole, he would most likely jump from the extreme left to the extreme right, or from the extreme of the right to the extreme of the "left", and his jumping skills would be even stronger than the characters we mentioned earlier.
Therefore, it is strange why some people always feel that these people are the most positive in denying that movement, but they themselves are the most characteristic of the ultra-left of that era. They buckle their hats and beat sticks, and they are extremely skillful. They talk one thing and do another in action, and they are most opposed to others talking about struggle, but they are the best at engaging in struggle against others. They are just Xi to the double standard and think that it is a privilege they take for granted. They blame the times for their mistakes, and never reflect on themselves.
After reading this article, you should be able to find the answer to this question.
Now, there is another person who can keep pace with Lao Hu in this regard, and some people call him an academician of political work. Similarly, he likes to use a far-left hat to pluck a large slice. Those who attack others are actually very much like painting yourself a portrait of yourself.
Such a person was politically evergreen in that era of his accusation and in the era that followed. He is different from ordinary people, he was in the political whirlpool at that time, how did he manage to be as unscathed as Wu Jinglian?
The essence of such a person is now the extreme right.
Therefore, Lao Hu uses himself as a reference, and his eyes are full of ultra-leftism. Netizens have long found out: as long as they are right enough, everyone is ultra-left.
Clever netizens also made him a picture to illustrate how much coverage of Lao Hu's ultra-left range is.
In the future, these people will use more and more extreme political buttons to attack dissidents in their hearts, and the impact will become bigger and bigger, because more and more people whose views are not compatible with them, and they will also expose their extreme nature more and more because they are more and more anxious.
Observing their true stance depends on their selectivity and tendency to double standards. See who they are tolerant of and who they are harsh on?
For example, for netizens, 12.24 is not just Christmas, but to commemorate the victory of the volunteers in Changjin Lake, and it is necessary to come up with the constitution to safeguard freedom of religious belief. Recently, however, some economists, in the name of justifying the name of private enterprises, have ignored the constitution's stipulations on the basic economic system and demanded the abolition of the status of the main body of public ownership in the name of justifying the name of private enterprises.
This selectivity reflects his position.
His method of creating issues has also been seen by others and summed up clearly.
For other characteristics of this person, interested friends can click to see this article "This gentleman, I know you are in a hurry this time".
Six
It is not easy to win the ideological war and the war of public opinion, not only to face all kinds of lies, but also to face such people and the hats they have prepared for us.
We are rules-based and have a bottom line, but our opponents will not be limited by any rules and bottom lines. Their nature will not change, nor will their ways and means. We need to see these kinds of people thoroughly, because we need to understand what kind of people our opponents are.
Whether it is an ideological war or a public opinion war, we must rely on the initiative and spontaneous participation of every netizen in order to achieve ultimate victory through the form of the Internet people's war. This is the mission entrusted by the times to each of us responsible Chinese, and we have no choice but to win.
(The author is a researcher at the Kunlun Ce Research Institute; source: Kunlun Ce Network [author's authorization], reproduced from "Mingren Mingli")