Chapter 149: Defending Max

From the meeting until 2 p.m., Zhou Nan had an extensive exchange of views with these compatriots on many domestic issues. It also made a detailed discussion on the attitude of the international community towards the country.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, almost all of China's understanding and contacts with the world were through the Soviet Union, and only a few international friends had few channels to learn about foreign countries.

However, people in China do not know much about the differences in the entire international environment and ideology, which has led to deeper misunderstanding and suppression of the motherland in the international community.

In terms of knowledge, there may be many people who are more professional than Zhou Nan, but in terms of vision and understanding of the international environment, no one can compare with Zhou Nan.

Therefore, many of Zhou Nan's words can be said to be the finishing touch, which made them suddenly open their mouths and benefited a lot.

Several people's pens have been writing down Zhou Nan's words in their notebooks, and they also asked bluntly about many things they didn't understand or didn't understand. And Zhou Nan also took the trouble to answer all questions, spread out many international issues, crumpled them, and analyzed them little by little.

When leaving, they did not have the antagonism and precautions when they met, and their attitude towards Zhou Nan, a compatriot in a capitalist society, was much better.

Zhou Nan obviously felt this, and he was also relieved in his heart. Being able to make that impression on them is already a good start.

In their hearts, they are also "international friends" who miss their motherland.

That's good.

Etinny walked down the stairs and saw that Zhou Nan was still stunned at the door of the hotel, and said with some urgency: "Jonas, the meeting is about to start, let's get in." ”

"Coming soon...... Flleg, don't be too nervous, the Soviets should be very well defended here. ”

Flegg smiled, and the smile quickly faded again, returning to seriousness. "It's my duty, I can't put your safety in the hands of the Soviets, that's my rereliction of duty."

"Well, I'll listen to your ......"

Zhou Nan turned around and entered the hotel, went up the stairs to the second floor, and came to the hotel's main conference room.

The participants were almost all present, and the meeting had not yet begun, so there was a bit of commotion in the venue.

Zhou Nan saw the position of the Swiss delegation and wanted to go over, but was stopped by Etinny and pointed to a position on the side of the rostrum. "Jonas, where is your place?"

There was a row of long tables on the rostrum, a total of nine chairs, and the people were almost in place. Among them were representatives of the Red Cross, representatives of Britain, France and the United States, and several Soviets.

In front of the remaining vacant seat was a nameplate with the name of Zhou Nan written in English, Russian and German.

Seeing Zhou Nan coming in, the representative of the Red Cross also waved to him and called him over.

Zhou Nan responded, walked over, and asked in a low voice, "I wasn't arranged to speak!" Everyone knows that the main purpose of my visit to the Soviet Union this time is not this, so why did you arrange for me to sit on the rostrum? ”

"I don't know the specific reason for the arrangement of the Soviets."

"You go to Stolko and ask him what the reason is."

In front of everyone's eyes, of course Zhou Nan couldn't be humble, so he could only sit on the rostrum. He is an Oriental, and he is a young man, and he is particularly conspicuous in a group of old men.

The Soviets also set up two cameras in the venue, one facing the rostrum and the other facing the crowd below.

There is a camera next to Zhou Nan's position, which means that he will always appear in the lens. This made him want to be lazy during the meeting, and if he yawned and sat down, he would be directly embarrassed and thrown abroad.

Since such an international conference was conducted in the Soviet Union, regardless of the language in which the speaker spoke, and there were also English and Russian interpreters, it was very inefficient.

Each paragraph takes at least twice as long. If the speaker spoke in Dutch, it would take three times as long.

Zhou Nan did not know Russian, and his level of English was also very low, which made him seem very dazed and ignorant at the venue. Because most of the time, he simply doesn't understand what is being said.

I couldn't understand the words, and then I sat on the rostrum and pretended to be concentrated, not to mention how uncomfortable it was.

After tensing his body for a long time, his left buttocks felt a dull pain again. So he simply lay down on the table, put his pen in place, and began to write and draw on the manuscript paper in front of him.

Of course, he was not scribbling, but jowed down some of his experiences when communicating with his compatriots.

Both in the Soviet Union and now in the country have gone astray of the Marxist line, or rather, it has fallen into dogmatism.

Many people don't know what they're doing, and they just fight for their ideals with enthusiasm.

When Zhou Nan communicated with them, he could feel their enthusiasm and stiffness of thought, so he was going to write an article analyzing Marxism, not to mention reminding the world, but at least to let them know that many people now have a wrong understanding.

The discussion of the relationship between Marx's historical materialism and humanism has been around since its birth. Especially since the beginning of the new century, there have been two opposing views.

One is that "historical materialism has not only failed or weakened Marx's humanist ideas, but has strengthened them on the basis of true science". This view is based on the continuity of Marx's thought.

On the other hand, there is a certain degree of rupture in his thinking, and that Marxism and humanism, historical materialism and historical idealism, as world outlook and historical outlook, cannot be mixed with each other, incorporated into each other, included with each other, or reduced to each other.

The relationship between historical materialism and humanism is not only a question, but also an important aspect of understanding Marx's philosophy. In his philosophical thoughts, Max did express a critique of traditional humanist thought, which may have caused some theoretical misunderstandings, but in fact, in Max's view, humanism has always been the value appeal and spiritual essence of historical materialism.

The earliest distinction between Marx's humanist thought and historical materialism was Althusser's "epistemological rupture", and it is of great significance to re-understand the work "In Defense of Marx" to think about and analyze this issue from the source.

The book "Defending Max" was born in the late fifties, when the strongman had already died. The Soviet Union took many detours in its search for the road ahead, and there were also huge differences and contradictions within them.

Zhou Nan had already made a comprehensive exposition of humanitarianism, but because it was Russell and Schweitzer who wrote books with him at that time, they expounded more on the humanitarianism of historical idealism, and the humanitarianism of materialism was relatively shallow.

Zhou Nan is now ready to enrich this part of the content, which is also a good opportunity to brush up on goodwill in China. But this part of the content will definitely not please the Soviets, because it is tantamount to Zhou Nan repudiating their current policy line.

However, they will not hate Zhou Nan because of this, because as long as they are insightful, they will know that Zhou Nan's purpose is to really point out problems, not to criticize.

How to write these contents, Zhou Nan has not yet figured it out. In Althusser's book "In Defense of Max", many of the ideas are too sharp to be true.

At present, the Marxist philosophy of Marxism in the West is a dogmatic Marxist philosophy against the CPSU headed by Lukacs and a large number of other people, and Zhou Nan is not prepared to directly criticize them and arouse public anger, so he must find another way.

He intends to focus his attention on issues such as "man's emancipation" and "man's freedom", and pay attention to "man's alienation" and "human nature".

In fact, humanistic philosophy is not popular in both the East and the West, and the main reason is that they use this one-sided thinking to dominate Marx's philosophy as a whole.

Therefore, there have been countless people criticizing this humanistic philosophy and pointing out the misunderstandings of trying to lead to Marxist philosophy from this road.

If he wants to avoid this mistake and be criticized by the academic community, Zhou Nan must find a better way to explain it.

Today's meeting is not long, only two hours, and its main function is to allocate the work of this delegation during its stay in the Soviet Union.

But because Zhou Nan couldn't understand most of them, he felt that the time was very long.

However, when he put his mind on a new article, time passed quickly.

There was a burst of warm applause, and Zhou Nan also put down his pen and applauded with everyone, finally no longer having to "suffer".

Now that the direction of the members of the delegation has been arranged, some of the delegations that are going to various parts of the Soviet Union will have to start their journey.

Many packed their bags and left by train, while many more will leave the next day. It wasn't until half a month later that they would return to Moscow for a summary meeting, and then leave the Soviet Union.

"Jonas, the delegation of your country to the Soviet Union has sent an invitation to have dinner at their delegation's premises."

Zhou Nanleng paused for a moment, thinking that when they left in the afternoon, they didn't mean to invite, why would they invite them now? But then I realized that I am afraid that they didn't want to invite, but they hadn't asked their superiors for instructions, so they didn't dare to make their own decisions.

After getting the approval of their superiors, now they are of course willing to listen to Zhou Nan talk more about the international situation.

"Okay, I need to go back and lie down for half an hour, and I've just sat tense in front of the camera for two hours, and I'm sick and my hips are starting to hurt. Are Stocko and Helder back? ”

"They are in your room. Stolko believes that the purpose of the Soviet Union holding you now is probably also to win you over, because you are famous and have the identity of an Oriental......"

Zhou Nan laughed and said: "Don't worry, the neutral identity is the best for me, I have never thought of changing." What's more, I don't agree with some of the practices of the Soviet Union either, so you don't have to worry about me. ”

(I know everyone wants to see the protagonist change history, but I really can't go into detail here...... I try to avoid harmony and write about some changes. )