Chapter 10 Crisis Theory: Overwatch, Innovation and Reconstruction

Mencius said: "If you go out, you will be invincible and suffer from foreign troubles. If you enter, you will have no family and supporters, and the country will perish." Any ideological theory starts from recognizing the real crisis and takes the resolution of the crisis as its refuge.The sense of crisis in Pan Yue's article is particularly strong, and the crisis covers a very wide range.Among them, the most important are international security, agricultural crisis, education crisis, cultural crisis and social crisis, resource and population crisis and so on. An article in "Business Weekly" on March 31, 1997 commented: "'Crisis Theory' is Pan Yue's most persistent proposition. Pan Yue disagrees...that the current situation is a good judgment. On the contrary, he believes that mainland China is prosperous Behind the appearance, there are hidden great crises across the century, such as the decline of state-owned enterprises, the collapse of national industries, the decline of social morality, backward education, a large number of farmers abandoning their farms and moving to cities, financial constraints, and local bureaucrats seizing the economy and resources. Scarcity but abuse of plundering and development strategies, surrounded by great powers, all kinds of crises may break out at the beginning of the 21st century.” What is valuable is that what Pan Yue did was not just pointing out the crisis or predicting the potential crisis, people feel fresh and pertinent Yes: The solution proposed by Pan Yue is quite different from the traditional cliché.

In the process of reform and opening up, while various stages of mainstream thoughts have brought great achievements to China, they have also caused the inevitable extension of many major issues and formed many fringe ideas. The scope of their research involves socialism, traditional Chinese culture, and modern politics. Civilization and many other fields.Many scholars work independently in related fields, but only Pan Yue has shown the ability to integrate various fields.In other words, the texts of Pan Yue that we have seen so far are not so much Pan Yue's personal thoughts as Pan Yue is a master of these thoughts.

Since the turmoil between the Soviet Union and the East, the biggest question that has haunted China is the future of socialism.Pan Yue is one of the true watchmen of socialism in China's ideological circles today.However, the watchman's eyes did not stop at the traditional socialist ideology and values, but tried to combine them with the nationalist elements in China's modernization process, the excellent fruits of traditional Chinese culture, and the modern Western civilization. A part of the concept of democracy and the legal system is comprehensively evaluated and considered, and a new path is explored.It can be seen that Pan Yue's basic starting point is that the primary stage of socialism is an inevitable and insurmountable historical stage in the process of China's modernization.Pan Yue advocated facing up to all acute contradictions and problems in social reality, and believed that they could be resolved by re-establishing a correct ruling party concept that conforms to the interests of the majority of the Chinese people.

Pan Yue's emphasis on the emotion and understanding of nationalism is due to his deep understanding of the nature of the Chinese Communist Party itself.The practice of the Communist Party of China also proves that only when national interests are taken as the guideline and socialism is used as the political structure, can Marxism better provide ideological guidance for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.At the same time, facing the obvious progress of Western society, Pan Yue also believes that absorbing the achievements of democracy and the rule of law, which are the common political heritage of mankind, is an inevitable choice to enrich Marxism and an important connotation of realizing socialist democracy.

Facing the crisis of the social value and ethics system, Pan Yue emphasized the need to attach importance to the further combination of Marxism and traditional Chinese culture.It is believed that the fundamental reason why Chinese civilization has survived for thousands of years is that the independence and compatibility of Chinese civilization make it a political, cultural and ethical system shared by the big family of the Chinese nation.Only when Marxism is supplemented by Chinese civilization can it become the ideological weapon that unites the Chinese nation. The sincere watch for socialism is the starting point of all Pan Yue's thoughts, and trying to walk a new path between traditional socialism and capitalism that adapts to the characteristics of the new situation is the basic direction of all the watchman's explorations.On the premise of ensuring the nature of socialism and the ruling of the Communist Party, he actively synthesized constructive opinions in various fields to form a new idea based on Marxism, supported by China's excellent cultural traditions, and framed by democracy and the rule of law. system.Its basic theoretical content includes Mao Zedong's New Democratic Program and Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles, covering the positive thinking and research results of socialism, democratic socialism, nationalism, Chinese traditional culture, democracy and the rule of law in the Chinese ideological circle over the years .

Pan Yue's emphasis on rebuilding China's social value and ethics system is interlinked with his views on religion.Pan Yue’s views on religion’s role in strengthening social morality and consolidating basic social consensus are part of his thinking on the social value system. Pan Yue and others have observed and summarized the cultural crisis over the past 20 years since the reform and opening up, and found that these crises are manifested as: people have lost their philosophy of life and their direction of struggle; people do not have a stable view of social wealth and order that is recognized by both the government and the people ; Cultural development lacks innovation; cultural self-confidence is gone.The current Chinese cultural crisis is the vacuum of the main value system.The value vacuum will inevitably bring about the alienation of interpersonal relationship, the grotesqueness of interpersonal behavior and the chaos of social order.The solution is not to fully accept the cultural value system of developed countries, but to go back and find a prescription from the inherent culture.Pan Yue believes that in the 21st century, human beings should pursue a philosophy of life that combines tradition and innovation. This philosophy of life cannot be sought outside, but must be extracted from the essence of traditional culture through dialectical reflection. "The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is the century-old dream and unremitting pursuit of Chinese people all over the world. The important foundation of national rejuvenation is cultural rejuvenation. The rise of world environmental culture has brought great opportunities for the rejuvenation of Chinese culture. The development of socialism with Chinese characteristics Environmental culture is to strive for the rejuvenation of Chinese culture, and to strive for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”

In terms of how to realize the revival of the Chinese nation's culture, Pan Yue put forward a series of important viewpoints: He advocated the establishment of a multicultural view based on traditional Chinese culture.Have a positive attitude towards Chinese traditional culture.It advocates the integration of multiculturalism with traditional culture and the establishment of a basic cultural value with a multi-identity basis that is recognized by the vast majority of Chinese people.And actively use traditional culture to improve ideology in order to complete the reconstruction of Chinese social culture and moral system.