The servile trap of Western culture | gu Hongming Chen Yinke's discussion, the great role of Marxism

【Introduction】Marxism, a revolutionary Western ideological system, has also given Chinese a weapon of ideological struggle, and the anti-guest has become the main body of ideology, getting rid of the position of being judged by Westerners. More importantly, Marxism is a powerful weapon for the people's ideological unity, which has transformed China's old Taoist system into the core values of socialism, and the Chinese people have truly become the masters of the country.

The servile trap of Western culture

- Zou Tianshi

Chinese it's often hard to understand why Westerners always look at others with double standards, especially when it comes to China, but there's a very deep cultural context behind it.

Gu Hongming and Chen Yinke's in-depth discussion

Two famous scholars in modern China have explored this Western cultural background in depth, one is Gu Hongming and the other is Chen Yinke. Everyone is familiar with Chen Yinke's remarks: "The spirit of independence, the idea of freedom", but they do not know that he said that these are aimed at the historical background of the invasion of Western culture at that time, but they think that he praises Western thought and culture.

Chen Yinke is a famous historian, he greatly admires the Confucian Taoist spirit of Wang Guowei, and is considered to be a relict figure of the Qing Dynasty, in fact, he is familiar with Western historiography, understands more than a dozen languages, and is a very good Western master. He believes that Western culture has been used by literati like Hu Shizhi, which has undermined China's original ideological and cultural orthodoxy, and Chinese should remain sober about this and defend their spiritual independence and ideological freedom.

Gu Hongming is an older generation of university scholars, he was born in Nanyang, grew up in the United Kingdom, proficient in more than a dozen Chinese, with more than a dozen doctorates, is the most knowledgeable master figure in Chinese history, he believes that the core of Western culture is logical thinking, the formation of dualistic opposition, resulting in Westerners themselves forever caught in self-contradictory thinking, and the excellent quality of Chinese culture is "gentle", Chinese is not to think with linear thinking, but to use "compassion" to look at themselves and the world, the world as a whole, Interact, warm and tenacious, confident and self-consistent.

The Trap of Thinking in Western Civilization

What is that thinking trap in Western civilization? In fact, it is the theory of duality, this way of thinking has existed since the beginning of human society, I am good and you are bad, I am good and you are evil, I win and you lose, I am the only one, these are typical examples. This way of thinking sets the "I" as the subject, sets others and the outside world as objects, and forms a fixed mode of thinking under the selfish interests of the individual.

As defined in the Bible: "Do not eat the fruit of the tree that identifies good and evil," for once you have eaten it you have a sinful nature. In God's eyes, human sin comes from identifying good and evil, so man must be punished, and the punishment for sin is death, and this death is going to hell unless man is reunited with God.

Buddhism also says "no discriminating mind", and Taoism also talks about "the unity of heaven and man", which is aimed at dualistic and opposing thinking. Westerners were still able to maintain the unity of religious beliefs in the Middle Ages, but the rise of the merchant class brought about internal divisions within the theocracy, there were very cruel religious wars, various extremist factions appeared in Christendom, they often shaped their own unique gods, sects interpreted their own doctrines, and thousands of different schools emerged, which played an important role in the emergence of a fragmented nation-state pattern in Europe.

These countries all claimed legitimacy with Christianity, and Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism all had their own spheres of influence, and they often went to war with each other and accused each other of violating morality, a way that was later applied to non-Western countries. It is not surprising that it is used in China now, the concept of "human rights" itself contains racial discrimination implications, in the eyes of Westerners, only Christian countries have the legitimacy of God-given, Christians have a complete personality, whether China has human rights can not be decided by Chinese themselves, but by Westerners (especially Americans).

The tremendous role of Marxism in China

So Chinese can one become a Christian get rid of this fateful arrangement? The answer is no. The beliefs of the modern West have become imperialist ideas in the name of neoliberalism, and although they have inherited and inherited the ideology of solipsism, they have been very repulsive to non-Western nations and states, and they are completely instruments of political oppression.

Chinese Christians face a difficult choice: Do you choose your own God or be a slave to Westerners? If you choose your own God, then you must be a traitor in the eyes of Westerners, just as Europeans are traitors to Judaism in the eyes of the Jews.

Here we must talk in particular about the tremendous role of Marxism in Chinese. Traditional Chinese culture is the combination of Confucianism and law, although it is very inclusive, but it is very lacking in speculative ability and logical analysis ability, but also lack of self-reflection and renewal ability, Marxism, this revolutionary Western ideological system makes Chinese also have a weapon of ideological struggle, anti-customer-oriented has become an ideological subject, get rid of the position of being judged by Westerners.

More importantly, Marxism is a powerful weapon for the people's ideological unity, which has transformed China's old Taoist system into the core values of socialism, and the Chinese people have truly become the masters of the country.

【About】Zou Tianshi, a geopolitical scientist and Chinese painter in the United States, has lived in the United States for more than 30 years, and has written thousands of articles in the works, which have appeared in overseas newspapers and domestic online media. Comprehensive, balanced, inclusive and rational views and ideas have been praised by the political, academic and media circles at home and abroad.