Chapter 155: Fame and Fortune

The heating in the room was very warm, and Zhou Nan was sitting in front of his desk in a sweater, with a printed German manuscript in front of him.

The manuscript is not thick, only about 20 pages of A4 paper, less than 20,000 words. The title is "Theory Connects with Practice: The Embodiment of Materialist Values", and the author's name is Iron Man.

In addition to this stack of manuscripts, there was a thick stack of books on the desk, all of which were German-language versions of Marxist-Leninist writings and other people's analyses of their thoughts.

In fact, Zhou Nan doesn't need these books now, because the complete content is about to take shape after thinking about it in the past few days. But he still had to make an appearance and prove that all his arguments were based on these works.

Ideological essays are often the easiest to criticize, because if you write a hundred opinions, ninety-nine are right, and only one is wrong. Then some scheming people will seize on this point of yours and attack it, turn to confuse the public, and deny your thoughts as a whole. Therefore, the main thing in writing such an ideological essay is not how many useful things you throw out, but to set up a perfect defense for yourself at the beginning.

Although the content is important, the architecture is also important, and how to throw out your ideas also needs to be strategic.

Zhou Nan took a look at the iron man's work, although he didn't know if he wrote it, but Zhou Nan could also see that the theoretical foundation in the middle was weak and the thinking was rigid.

If such an article were to be included in a humanitarian book, it would definitely be attacked innumerably.

He puts too much emphasis on methodology, and his analysis of practical problems is very good, but the overall structure is based on a vague view of historical nature, which is simply full of loopholes.

To be honest, it is more difficult to revise his manuscript than Zhou Nan to write one himself, but now he can only rise to the challenge.

In less than 20,000 words, he sorted out all the central ideological aspects, and then retained the most essential materialist dialectical aspects. The overall structure of the thesis was directly broken up by Zhou Nan, adding a lot of dialectical contrasting content.

It took five full days for Zhou Nan to complete the job and give the manuscript back to the liaison staff for him to take back to the iron man to see.

Subsequently, Zhou Nan began the structure of the overall part according to his part of the content.

Bourgeois humanism, also known as idealistic humanism, is embodied in certain ethical and moral requirements, such as respect for people and concern for people, which has its own reasonableness.

However, its theoretical basis, that is, the world outlook and the historical outlook, is idealistic, and it uses abstract human beings and human nature to explain history, and regards human "reason" as the driving force of social and historical progress, so it cannot explain history scientifically. And the "kingdom of reason" it calls for is nothing more than the kingdom of the bourgeoisie.

In the revolutionary struggle of the proletariat to overthrow capitalism and establish socialism, socialist humanism – that is, humanism as an ethical principle and moral norm – was born and developed.

It is fundamentally different from bourgeois humanism, is based on the Marxist world outlook and historical outlook, is an integral part of socialist ethics and morality, and serves the foundation of the socialist economy.

To put it simply, the basis of idealistic humanism is based on human beings who are constantly born and disappear, which seems to be very reasonable, but it is easy to be controlled by a small number of people, which is not in line with the law of historical development.

Materialist humanism is based on the existence of the entire historical structure, which is more reasonable. However, it is easy to ignore the needs of the human individual, which is the most important part of history, and this is the main reason why the Western world has been holding the weapon of human rights against the East in later generations.

Zhou Nan is not a judge, he doesn't want to judge which is better and which is better, and he doesn't have the ability to do so. Because this is something that countless sociologists cannot distinguish, each has its own advantages and advancement, and also has its own disadvantages.

And because the foundations and worldviews of the two theories are completely different, it is impossible for these two humanisms to coexist in the basic part.

However, the philanthropic spirit derived from these two different theories is the same. Neither idealism nor materialism denies the greatness and ultimate significance of the spirit of charity.

Therefore, Zhou Nancai focused his focus on the spirit of charity. For the two different humanitarianism, he only expounds and summarizes, but does not evaluate.

Under such a framework, the East has never criticized Western humanitarianism, and now that Zhou Nan has added Eastern humanitarianism, the criticism should not be very large.

Of course, this may also be because the academic community has not yet reacted, or it may be because no one has the leisure to spray him during this time.

Perhaps after the humanitarianism of the East is added this time, this book will cause a major sensation and criticism in the world.

Zhou Nan will not be afraid of controversy, and hopes that the greater the controversy, the better, as long as the spearhead is not aimed at him.

On November 1, the Iron Man summoned him again in the Kremlin, this time, without a large number of attachés to accompany the guests, but alone.

In an environment where there were only Stolko and the major translating, Zhou Nan discussed in detail with Tetsuren about the revision of his thesis and the direction of his ideas.

Iron Man affirmed and agreed with Zhou Nan's revision, and took the initiative to add Zhou Nan's name to his name, which was published on the front page of the November 2 issue of the Soviet Pravda, and occupied almost four pages.

In addition to the full text published in the newspapers, there were also other praises and responses from other Soviet scholars, and the most pleasing thing for the Western countries was that for the first time, the iron man had a trace of compassion and promised to improve the conditions in the Soviet concentration camps and prisons and promote the spirit of humanitarianism.

This brought the subsequent summary meeting of the international delegation to an end with cheers, and the delegation, which had been inspecting various parts of the Soviet Union for half a month, also took the initiative to praise the contributions made by the Soviet Union in this regard.

Iron Man, the leader who was most opposed to the cult of personality and eventually became obsessed with the cult of personality, was a person with a very good face, and he was praised by the international community, which made him very happy, and he did make many improvements later.

However, Zhou Nan received a lot of criticism, not because he helped to consider anything wrong with the content of the article, but mainly because he criticized him for being so close to Iron Man.

An article has two authors, one of whom is the leader of the East. One is an internationally renowned neutral scholar, which makes Zhou Nan's ass crooked.

Zhou Nan also responded in front of the media and took out the published book "Humanitarianism". "In the published books, there are nine analyses of humanism, namely, the value of reason, the value of free inquiry, the value of individual dignity, the principle of moral equality, the ideal of freedom, religious skepticism, the nature and origin of ethics, the materialist worldview, and socialist ethics. Four of them are interconnected, four are idealistic humanitarianism, and only one is really about materialist humanism. Structurally, the content of this book is incomplete, and from the perspective of society as a whole, it lacks oriental content, and it does not represent the universal value of complete humanism. ”

"I didn't have the opportunity before, so I was not able to improve the content, but this time I came to the Soviet Union to study and summarize the theory in this area. I conducted a detailed debate with the leader and completed a part of the materialist and humanist summary. It's all based on politics, but personally, it's not about politics. As an official of a neutral country, I will continue to follow Switzerland's international neutrality and conduct academic research impartially, and I will not be placed in one camp because of my research. ”

In order to counter these criticisms, Zhou Nan deliberately sent out invitations to some outstanding leaders of other socialist camp countries, and promised to rearrange the book "Humanitarianism" after collation.

Zhou Nan's move caused a greater repercussion around the world. But I have to say that in this way, the Western people do not believe that Zhou Nan will be biased towards the Eastern camp, and the Eastern people also have a better impression of Zhou Nan.

On November 4, the Ministry of Culture of the Soviet Union approved Holder's application and agreed to open the sale of Zhounan's recordings in the Eastern countries, but only through the Soviet state-owned companies.

On this point, not to mention Zhou Nan, even Baidai did not have any opinions, and happily reached an agreement.

On November 5, Zhou Nan received a manuscript of the Dragon Flying Phoenix Dance, "Revolutionary Humanitarianism." Seeing the familiar flowing handwriting, Zhou Nanru got a treasure and immediately put it into his suitcase, this manuscript, he was going to decide.

On November 6, just one day before the celebration, two planes leased by EMI arrived in Moscow carrying 50,000 copies of Zhounan's records.

Subsequently, more than half a million copies of the album were shipped to St. Petersburg through the Swedish shipping company and sold throughout the Soviet Union.

And 10,000 tons of wheat also arrived in Germany through this period of transportation.

Yannick organized a large number of workers, who worked day and night to transport the grain, and even used rickshaws to get the grain to Wolfsburg as soon as possible.

Although this 10,000 tons of wheat will not save too many people, it will keep at least 100,000 people from starving through the winter.

As for Zhou Nan, he has been deified by the media in Germany, although it is impossible for these grains to save too many people, but he used his royalties to the Germans in exchange for these grains, and this spirit is worth infinitely amplifying.

The Red Cross, the United Nations, volunteer associations and other organizations have highly praised this act of Zhou Nan.

If this year's Nobel Peace Prize had not been announced, I am afraid that Zhou Nan would be the most powerful contender.

In fact, this grain is not only grain, but in Germany, where food is scarce, the resources that can be exchanged for this grain far exceed its own value.

The more than 10,000 workers at the Volkswagen factory turned to Yannick and saw him as a real savior, not a capitalist.

Zhou Nan became famous, Yannick profited, this is Zhou Nan's real original intention.

Because Yannick's profit is also equivalent to Zhou Nan's profit, and these benefits are far greater than the actual value of royalties.

(The academic depiction is over, and the plot that everyone is looking forward to will soon be.) I originally wanted to write about these contents as a high, tidal outcoming, academic criticism from the East and the West, and responses from great leaders, but I couldn't involve domestic and invincibility, so I could only silence them. Thank you for your understanding.)