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On Private Property Is
"The Roots of Inequality in Human Society" is Rousseau's famous work, which is respected by many people, including the famous Marx a hundred years later, who also absorbed nutrition from it, and filled the bricks and tiles for the founding of the Marxist edifice.
They are all giants of the political theory of the 18th and 19th centuries, and it can also be said that Marx is standing on the shoulders of a series of giants, such as Hegel, Feuerbach, Owen, Saint-Simon, Freyer, of course, Rousseau, Voltaire and even Leibniz, Newton, it should be noted that Marx is also a mathematician, a physicist proficient in calculus, which is completely different from later generations of political scientists and politicians.
Scientists are Marx's background, and he had in-depth research in almost all scientific disciplines at that time, including biology, which is essentially valuable. When we get lost in the study of Marxism, we should trace back to the source, find the correct direction at the source, and not forget the road we came from because we have gone too far, and go astray, which is contrary to the original intention.
Marx is in the same line as Rousseau and critically inherits. Rousseau would not think of himself as a bourgeois thinker, he was not of any class, he was a human thinker, he studied science, and science did not necessarily have to be branded with class.
Moreover, Rousseau lived in 18th-century France like 19th-century China, feudal society, feudal state, he was just a poor man, died in poverty and illness. A few years after his death, the French Revolution broke out, killing millions of people, mostly landlords, nobles, and of course, many revolutionaries such as Robinspierre. The entire French ruling class was basically crushed, and a feudal class perished.
One hundred and twenty-two years later, in the Xinhai Revolution, the landlords and "nobles" were preserved "intact" and lived well in the entire class of the Republic of China, making the Republic of China "four different", unlike a capitalist country, eroding its foundation and eventually collapsing, until the land reform finally withered.
Zhang Jingjiang and Chiang Ching-kuo of the Republic of China presided over land reform and abandoned it halfway. The elimination of landlords, which should have been the task of the Xinhai Revolution and the bourgeoisie of the Republic of China, was not accomplished in the last 38 years, so it was overthrown. What should you do, let others do it, and the food you eat?
(ii)
Is the root cause of inequality in human society really private property? That's right, this is a scientific deduction, but what was the purpose of the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe? Because of inequality, people rose up and overthrew public ownership, re-established what they thought was fairer private ownership, and called it "revolution". This seems to be a step backwards!
From private ownership to public ownership is a historical progress, an inevitable destination and an inevitable direction of history, and even the so-called bourgeois thinker and social scientist Mr. Rousseau understands, why do we not understand it, and still pretend to be proletarian? According to Marxist theory, the proletariat is the gravedigger, developer, and founder of a higher civilization of the bourgeoisie, and we should know more about science and knowledge, and more deservedly say: We are the proletariat, and the poor have knowledge left!"
What we break is the chain, and we will save all mankind! And did Rousseau really represent only the bourgeoisie? He represents all mankind, and he is not a bourgeoisie at all, he is a poor man!
And what does Cao Xueqin represent? He was born into a great aristocracy, a landlord, a young man who was raided by the next emperor, fell into poverty, and died in poverty and illness in the 18th century! Do you say that he represents the interests of the big landlords or the interests of the bourgeoisie? He has nothing to do with the bourgeoisie, he has to lean there, he can only say that he represents the interests of the big landlords, which is very far-fetched. It is as unscientific as leaning a mold against a person's head.
But what is certain is that Rousseau is slightly more advanced than Cao Xueqin, and Cao Xueqin can't think of such things as "On Private Property as the Root of Human Inequality". There is no such social soil. Why didn't Marx come into being in China? There is also no such social soil.
The social soil is the most important, not the system. No matter how good the system is, like a flower, it will wither, just like a crop, it will not grow a good crop. Raising fish first raises grass, and raising grass is the key. Cattle should also be planted with good pasture. I emphasize the role of the environment. Because man is a product of the environment, the system is formulated by man and implemented by man.
If the environment is not good, people naturally cannot implement the system with quality and quantity, and the system will be transformed into a painting skin with a good appearance and no practical use. This explains the disintegration of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and a Southern European Yugoslavia. They didn't plant well. Just like raising a rabbit, if the water and grass are beautiful, don't worry about it, the breeding ground is fast. The environment is decisive. Beware of weasels.