No. 334 more distant ambitions

Wu Jingyi's explanation of Wu Jingzhong was inexplicable: "What does the middle class have to do with you joining the Alliance Party?" ”

Wu Jingzhong continued to elaborate on his understanding: "Poor and rich are subjective impressions of contrast. ”

"The middle class is just an illusion, and they have to work hard to squeeze their self-worth to maintain a slight competitive advantage, so anxiety is almost a natural attribute of the middle class. The middle-class golf, kaiseki cuisine, and petty bourgeois products are also potential consciousness seeking self-comfort, hoping to use some specious spiritual needs to comfort themselves better than other low-level people, and prove that their hard work over the years is worth it. The same anxieties have made the middle class disgusted with any change that could harm their own interests, and they have always spoken out against the war and called for peace, without asking why it happened. This ambivalence is the petty-bourgeois weakness that was criticized in context thirty years ago. ”

"Well, the petty bourgeoisie at that time could also be divided into the middle class."

"Many people are profit-seeking animals, and when they feel that they are a middle class superior to the bottom, when they feel that the current market economy protects their interests, they naturally subconsciously favor the current economic system."

"In the United States, for example, for a long time, it was an olive-shaped economic structure, with middle-class families accounting for 60 percent of the population, and the rich were certainly in the minority, and the poor were not overwhelmingly predominant. When the original slogan of the Workers' Party arrives in the United States, it may be able to attract the support of some poor people, but it is very likely to be generally resisted by the middle class. Because in the eyes of the middle class, the so-called equality of the Workers' Party is to kill the pigs of the middle class, and to divide the wealth of the middle class to those who are lazy and stupid. ”

"Is the middle class against exploitation?"

"Of course they are not, everyone wants the company to raise the salary package as much as possible."

"However, does the middle class subscribe to communism against exploitation? The answer is self-evident, and the middle class certainly disagrees. It is not because the middle class does not understand that they have been exploited by the capitalists and have taken away most of their surplus value, but because they do not want to be equal to the poor, and they are afraid that what little income they have will be divided by the poor. ”

"The paradox of equality with whom the poor is willing to be equal to the rich, because equality is beneficial to him; The rich refuse to be equal to the poor, because equality loses its benefits. When the relatively affluent middle class becomes the dominant group, and the middle class fears that the Workers' Party will divide the land equally in the same way that the land will be divided equally, they will be subconsciously hostile to the Workers' Party. ”

"The middle class is not a phenomenon unique to modern society."

"Comparing agrarian societies in terms of wealth ratios, the yeoman class in agrarian societies is almost a copy of the middle class. Subsistence farmers, who relied on their own labor to harvest their food, were not as powerful as the big landowners, nor did they have no property of their own like hired farmers, and they were as adamant as the middle class that hard work was a way to achieve self-worth. Homegrowers are also anxious people, who get up early and work late to keep their family business. They tried to encourage their children to study, 'to be Tian Shelang in the morning, and to ascend to the Tianzi Hall at dusk', so as to achieve a leap in class. See, the so-called middle class is nothing more than homesteaders back then. ”

"The yeoman peasant group is the valve of the agricultural society, and when the yeoman peasant group is the mainstream of society, it is often the most powerful and positive era of the agricultural dynasty; When the bureaucratic landlords greedily annexed land, the group of yeoman peasants became smaller and smaller, and the number of hired peasants and proletarians increased, and the agrarian dynasty reached the end of its twilight years, dying in the flames of peasant uprising. In the same way, the middle class is the valve of industrial society, and when the middle class is absolutely dominant, the social structure is always very stable; It was only when the economic crisis spawned groups of unemployed, and the middle class was overwhelmed by the forces of the lower and unemployed, that revolutions of all forms erupted violently in the industrial dynasties. ”

"As far as I understand it......"

"The following is not the official theoretical standard answer of the Coalition, after all, my level of political theory is relatively low, and some questions may not be understood properly."

"As far as I know, both the yeoman class and the middle class are resistance to communist theory."

"Both the yeoman class and the middle class are at odds with the Workers' Party."

"The yeoman peasant class, because of its decent life and the illusion of affluence compared with other poor peasants, has no revolutionary spirit. The article on the investigation of the search for Wu by the Taizu of the Republic profoundly reflected the contradiction between the Workers' Party and the yeoman peasant class. Many of these so-called richer yeoman or middle peasants do not advocate striking them in the struggle on the grounds that they are not semi-landlords, and that all their production is their own labour and not the exploitation of others. In fact, in the eyes of the poor peasants, they are still a special class. Therefore, it can be seen that not only is there no doubt about the overthrow of the semi-landlord kulaks, but there is also no doubt that the land of the rich yeoman peasants will be equalized, the debts of the rich yeoman peasants will be abolished, and the grain of the rich yeoman peasants will be divided. Only in this way can we win over the broad masses of poor peasants. This is one of the important tactics of the rural struggle. In the last years of the late Qing Dynasty and the subsequent years of warlord warfare, a large number of yeoman peasants went bankrupt and unemployed, and only then did they have the broad masses of poor peasants who were willing to revolutionize. If it was the early agricultural dynasty, if the yeoman peasant families had steadily accounted for 70% of the country's population, it would have been a high probability that Taizu's slogan of 'equalizing the fields of the rich yeoman farmers, abolishing the debts of the wealthy yeoman farmers, and dividing the grain of the rich yeoman farmers' would have been resisted by the agricultural society dominated by the yeoman peasant class. ”

"Today's middle class is the yeoman peasant class of the past, and as long as there is no mass crisis among the middle class, the socialist movement will naturally fall into a low ebb; Once the monopoly of capital becomes more and more concentrated, and the middle class falls to the bottom of society en masse, the socialist movement will usher in a wave of high tide. ”

"This set of theories also perfectly explains the collapse of the Soviet Union and the revision of the Workers' Party."

"In the Russian Empire before the Soviet Union, even the rank-and-file soldiers were treated lightly as gray animals; The warlord melee before the Republic and the Japanese invasion of China are not to mention the pain of the people. The reason for the rise of communism in poor countries, I prefer to believe, is that the people were already poor to the point of nothing, and the rich yeoman peasant class, or the middle class, was hovering on the edge of life and death. ”

"But with the increase of productive forces, the broad masses of the people have come out of the hell of poverty, the ranks of the middle class or semi-middle class are growing day by day, and the absolute poor are not only getting smaller and smaller, but their overall power is also getting weaker and weaker, and gradually there is no hope of resisting the suppression of public opinion and military repression by the middle class. With the middle class dominating the population and at the same time firmly controlling the productive sector of the country, why should the poor class, which the Labour Party naturally sympathizes, fight against the middle class? ”

"Even when the middle class wakes up to the fact that they are being exploited and oppressed by the capitalists, they tend to try to keep their false happiness above the poor class, and then disdain some slogans against exploitation. As long as the ruling stratum of the state does not take the initiative to destroy the middle class, the communists have no hope of appealing to the de facto heavily exploited middle class with revolutionary theory. ”

"It is precisely because the middle class and semi-middle class have gradually become the mainstream, and it is precisely because the middle class felt that organizations like the early Workers' Party could take away their only wealth, that the early Workers' Party, which consciously stood on the people's standpoint, was widely condemned by public opinion or social elites."

"In the first 30 years and the next 30 years, although the constitution does not seem to have changed much, the practical philosophy of the Workers' Party has changed dramatically, because its political base has quietly completed the transformation from the extreme poverty to the middle class. Seven out of 10 people are like this: they hate corruption, bureaucratic capitalism and other bad phenomena, but they are afraid of returning to the economic system of 30 years ago. Predicting the future with this theory, the Workers' Party will certainly become less and less revolutionary, and will more and more honor the middle class in the same way that the feudal dynasty honored the yeoman peasant class. ”

Wu Jingyi was tired of hearing again: "What does the weakness of the middle class have to do with your joining the Alliance Party?" ”

Wu Jingzhong explained without hesitation: "In the agricultural era, yeoman farmers were the stabilizing force of the feudal dynasty, land annexation was out of balance, and peasants rebelled and changed the dynasty; In the industrial age, the middle class was the stabilizing force of the industrial dynasty, the capital was out of balance, and the proletarians rebelled and changed the dynasty. Under this theory, the middle class has become the yeoman peasant class in the new era, while communism has degenerated into a "peasant uprising" that violently mediates the merger of capital. ’”

"Every peasant uprising is a cycle of despair, in which the peasant generals overthrow the old dynasty and slowly become the ruling class of the new dynasty, and the endless greed of their descendants leads to new peasant uprisings. For example, Zhu Yuanzhang hated the corruption of the bureaucracy to the extreme, and he was still hated and scolded by the mainstream public opinion when the bureaucrats were harsh, but his grandson, his son, and even himself all quickly degenerated into the class he once hated. If the communist movement is only a peasant uprising that overthrew the old dynasty, and if the revolution overthrows the old dynasty and then becomes a greedy ruling class of the new dynasty, what historical positive significance can such a revolution have? ”

"This kind of revolution is not the revolution I want."

"This kind of communism or socialism is not the kind of doctrine I want."

"My ideal communism is by no means a trend of thought that can only occasionally resurgce when the economic crisis induced by capital mergers, but it should be a greater social relationship that goes beyond the exploitation of capital in an absolute sense. I believe that to put an end to capitalism, communism or otherism, it should be so strong that it does not have to wait for the capitalist government to kill itself, it should be so strong that it can defy all kinds of capitalist corruption and criticism as capitalism despises the sugar-coated corrosion of feudalism, and it should be able to easily crush capitalist social relations with great force. ”