Chapter 347: Liu Eryi's Labor Reform Career 8
Democracy is a good thing. It's just that in class society, the object of this democracy is a big question.
For example, US imperialism claims to be a beacon of the democratic world. But this democratic world does not include poor workers. It is purely aimed at the bourgeois capitalists. The bourgeoisie practices democracy within the ruling class itself. However, when facing the working people and the ruled class, they do not pay attention to any democracy, but directly go to machine guns and tanks.
That's why black people in the United States are being brutally murdered more than a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, and that's why Wall Street is being taken over by demonstrators.
The Baath Party also stresses democracy, but this democracy is not the democracy proclaimed in the universal values of later generations, but the "people's democratic dictatorship" that was actually implemented in the era of the old man Mao and existed in the Constitution in modern China.
The "people's democratic dictatorship" was established within the Baath Party as the social system to be implemented by the Baath Party. The establishment of a new China with a people's democratic system is the goal of the rejuvenation of the party.
The Ba'ath Party's people's democracy is a system with clear goals and targets.
The Baath Party has a clear definition of "the people." All the working people of the proletariat are the people with the meaning of legal protection. In other words, under the Ba'ath Party, the workers of the farms and factories, the soldiers of the Ba'ath Army, and the party members and cadres of the Ba'ath Party are all the people, and these people are the target objects of the people's democratic system.
Of course, in addition to these proletarian laborers, in the capitalist industrial enterprises such as the Zhijiang Merchant League, the Songzi Merchant League, the Wuchang Merchant Group, and the Qin Merchant Group, the proletarian laborers as workers are the objects of the people's democratic system.
But the factory owners and business owners, who are capitalists, are not the target of the Baath Party's people's democratic system. They, like the landlord class, which was being exterminated by the Ba'ath Party, were the targets of the Ba'ath Party's dictatorship. As society develops and the situation changes, the Baath Party will adopt different and flexible policies towards them. They are unilaterally in a position to be dealt with by the Baath Party.
As for whether they will be reformed or destroyed in the future, that is another story. But within the Ba'ath political system, they do not enjoy any political rights. Their children are not allowed compulsory education and have to pay exorbitant training fees to attend ordinary schools run by the Baath Party.
Until their children declare and effectively sever their ties with them, their children have neither the right to vote nor to stand for election, nor can they sit for the Ba'ath Party's civil service examinations, nor can they join the Party's economy, government, and military institutions. Their descendants, like them, have no political rights and are protected only by the ordinary laws of the Baath Party.
In the Ba'ath Party, the reform-through workers also have a distinction between contradictions among the people and class enemies. For those landlords and feudal scholars, they were deprived of all political and economic rights as labor campers. The labor reforms they receive are unpaid and have no time limit.
And the displaced people who came with Zhang Xianzhong are internal contradictions among the people. Although these people were also subject to two years of re-education through labor, the Baath Party did not deprive them of their political and economic rights. They have the right to participate in democratic life and to receive non-wage economic subsidies. Of course, this political and economic right is also different from that of ordinary workers, and there are certain restrictions.
The people's democratic system has accumulated a great deal of experience in the nine years of practice of the Baath Party. The Baath Party found that the enthusiasm of the masses to participate in this people's democratic system was not very high. In the very initial stage, being selected as a people's representative even became a headache for the broad masses of the people.
In addition to the system of randomly selecting people's representatives to form judices in the legal adjudication department. Because in some localities and some units, the election of people's deputies has become a process of rectifying the people, in which everyone elects a person who is not popular with them to do troublesome things, so random selection and election of people's deputies by drawing lots became a major problem in the early days of the Ba'ath Party's promotion of the people's democratic system. Only in the army is the system of soldiers' committees, which is also a people's representative system, implemented relatively well.
Fortunately, as the lives of the masses of the people became more and more stable under the rule of the Ba'ath Party, the broad masses of the people continued to receive cultural knowledge and political education, and in the following years, the people's representative system gradually matured and improved. Although the enthusiasm of the masses for participating in politics is still not high on the whole, at least the problem of "electing unlucky people to rectify them" has been basically eliminated. The election of people's representatives has gradually moved away from the low level of random selection.
Over the years of practice, Wang Shuhui and the Baath Party have gained a deeper and deeper understanding of the people's pragmatic spirit and their attitude of seeking truth from facts. They found that the enthusiasm of the masses of the people in the formulation of policies, guidelines, and laws and regulations has always been low. However, in the area of economic supervision and economic decision-making, the enthusiasm of the masses of the people is getting higher and higher, and they are also becoming more and more professional.
For example, not long ago, the Baath Party's people's representatives from the industrial port and the Ba'ath Party's people's representatives from the trade port joined forces to form a special collective of people's representatives for production and trade.
The formation of this completely spontaneous organization of people's representatives, concerned with their own economic interests, was very dissatisfied with the departments in charge of industry and trade within the Ba'ath Party. But Wang Shuhui raised his hands in agreement with this change, and was sincerely happy and excited.
He also devoted himself to this incident by publishing a series of articles praising the incident in the Renaissance Daily, the organ of the Ba'ath Party. And in the Baath Party, the first people's commissariat at the central level was established, the People's Commissariat of Industry and Trade. From this point on, the people's representatives officially began to participate in the high-level decision-making of the Baath Party.
Implement the people's democratic system, let the masses of the people participate in the management and decision-making of the state through such a system, and realize that the people are the masters of the country. It is true that subjectively it does bring a certain complexity to the work of the Ba'ath Party. However, in Wang Shuhui's view, the people's supervision and management brought about by the people's democratic system is actually a process that objectively helps the Baath Party reduce the cost of governance.
The people's deputies' participation in supervision and decision-making is actually to prevent the phenomenon and trend of corruption and degeneration in the Ba'ath Party, and to help the Baath Party reduce the pressure on the work of supervising and dealing with party members and cadres. With the help of the people's deputies, the Discipline Inspection Commission and the Supervisory Committee investigated and dealt with the party's members and cadres of the Baath Party, which greatly facilitated the work of the Discipline Inspection Commission and the Supervisory Committee.
More importantly, through the participation and supervision of the work of the Baath Party through the people's elected people's representatives, the legitimacy of the Baath Party's governance throughout China and even the world has been established.
Moreover, for Wang Shuhui, the people's democratic system and the Ba'ath Party's national learning policy are mutually reinforcing. The masses of the people who have the enthusiasm to participate in state affairs will consciously improve their level of cultural knowledge and ideological and political level, so that they will have the basic quality of participating in and discussing state affairs.
Take, for example, the class in his labor camp. After clarifying the powers and functions of the self-management committee, all the members of Wang Shuhui's class have unprecedentedly increased their enthusiasm for learning, especially for learning mathematical knowledge.
After learning from the exchange with Wang Shuhui that there was no one in his hands and that the small leader arranged by Zhang Xianzhong, who did not bully the displaced people, would not be held accountable by the Baath Party, Liu Eryi burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm for learning.
In the self-management committee election three months later, Liu Eryi stood out because of his outstanding math and military training results, and became one of the three self-management members of Wang Shuhui's class