Chapter 36 Protecting the Voice of the Few Who Hold the Truth

It is difficult to sum up Qin Xiaoying's thinking style in one sentence, but using the method of elimination, as he himself said, I am not domineering, petty, sour, or evil, and may still have a little bit of sharpness.Not to mention how deafening a series of blockbuster thought bombs he dropped from 1979 to 1989, his articles since then have become more and more exciting. People must still remember the "say no" trend that was raging in China in 1996, and Qin Xiaoying also joined the ranks of "say no".It was he who realized the "fermentation of anti-American sentiment in China" at the first time, introduced "China Can Say No" overseas with a rational attitude, and enthusiastically wrote the sequel "China Can Still Say "No"" preamble.People can see that Qin Xiaoying at this time looks at the political and emotional suffering and venting of Chinese intellectuals with more rationality: "The unfortunate people in life often sigh like this when they look back at their lives: My failure lies in not knowing Say 'no'. The lucky people in life always conclude this way when they judge life: My success lies in saying 'no' at any time. No, it is undoubtedly a refusal; but what this 'no' refuses is not the truth. Therefore, the correct, unbiased 'no' is truth in itself, at least has an element of truth, has a trajectory of truth."

Qin Xiaoying is the first scholar in China who put forward the "socialist democratic minority principle" in the new era.Traditional democracy is the principle of the majority, that is, the minority obeys the majority.However, Qin Xiaoying believes that in order to develop socialism, another principle must be followed, that is, the minority principle, which protects the opinions of the minority, because the opinions of the minority may be correct.From "probably correct" to "correct", there is a process of exploration and verification.The society should give it a mechanism to let it make a voice, and let this voice always exist, but it cannot be the most powerful voice or become the dominant voice.In this way, once there is an opportunity for social and political transformation, this voice may become the main voice, and then everyone can quickly understand it.To make the voice disappear would cost too much, often irreparably, to make it reappear.Therefore, society must establish a mechanism so that a few people cannot become dominant in behavior patterns, but must exist in thinking.For example, "practice is the only criterion for testing truth" was a controversial issue many years ago. Now if someone opposes this assertion, it cannot become the mainstream of society, but such voices should exist.But don't forget that all truth has a time limit.He said that maintaining the truth that has been tested by practice does not mean that all realities are reasonable mechanical materialism and vulgar historical views.

A scholar who has studied Qin Xiaoying for a long time found that Qin Xiaoying is a person who cannot be summed up in one sentence, and it is also difficult to classify him as a leftist or a rightist ideologically.He is infinitely loyal to the party, but he is often a sharp-edged person; he has a close relationship with high-level political circles and theoretical circles, and he also knows the roots of popular thoughts and works hard to maintain them.This makes him a very individual, not blindly following, not timid, sensitive and rational, loyal and selfless. In May 2003, 25 years after the publication of the article "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth", Qin Xiaoying published a commentary article "Three Milestones of Emancipation of the Mind" in the "China Financial News", clearly pointing out that "three milestones The important thought of "representative" is "the third milestone of the ideological liberation movement in the new era".

He said that 25 years ago, the article "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth" blew the clarion call for China's ideological emancipation, and it was also this article that triggered a big discussion and debate about the standard of truth.This article aimed at the spiritual shackles imposed on people by Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four", the obscurantism, idealism, and cultural despotism that prevailed during the ten-year turmoil, and the "two whatevers". The standard of socialism cannot be found in the subjective field or in the theoretical field, it only exists in the social practice of millions of people.

Qin Xiaoying believes that the great discussion triggered by "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth" and Deng Xiaoping's speech "Emancipate the Mind, Seek Truth from Facts, and Unite and Look Ahead" in December of that year helped our party shift the central work to economic construction. It laid a solid ideological foundation and a broad social foundation, and thus opened the prelude to the new historical period of China's reform and opening up.He called them the first milestones of the ideological emancipation movement in the new era of our country. He defined Deng Xiaoping's 1992 "Southern Tour Speech" as the second milestone of the ideological liberation movement in the new era.Because Deng Xiaoping set the standard for judging the surname "capital" and "she" as "it should mainly be based on whether it is conducive to the development of the productive forces of a socialist society, whether it is conducive to enhancing the comprehensive national strength of a socialist country, and whether it is conducive to improving the people's living standards." , and came to the famous conclusion that "development is the last word".The correctness of this thesis has been repeatedly proved by the great practice of the Chinese people, which has accelerated the cause of China's reform and opening up in a healthy direction again, marking the basic completion of Deng Xiaoping's theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics.

The important thought of "Three Represents" put forward by Jiang Zemin was called by Qin Xiaoying the third milestone of the ideological liberation movement in China's new era.Qin Xiaoying believes that in the face of the complicated domestic and international situations, Jiang Zemin put forward the important thought of "Three Represents" with a thorough and fearless materialist attitude, the spirit of advancing with the times, and accumulating collective wisdom, which is the key to China's reform and opening up. The scientific conclusion that the cause has entered a new stage is the crystallization of the collective wisdom of the whole party, the inevitable result of the ideological liberation movement in the new era, and the correct policy and fundamental guarantee to guide the success of our country's political, economic, and social development.

The most important academic value of Qin Xiaoying's logical and rigorous theoretical article is that it has found a very convincing theoretical support point for my country's 252-month sustained economic growth. Qin Xiaoying once said that the continuation of Chinese civilization to this day must have a reason for its survival. The Communist Party of China is by no means an opponent of Chinese culture. No matter what form it appears in, it is a representative of Chinese culture. This cannot be denied.The second thing that cannot be denied is that the Communist Party of China is the ruling party with the longest sustained economic growth since World War II.If the Chinese Communist Party cannot promote the development of productive forces, the productive forces will have already competed with it.Therefore, he believes that the gradual reform of the Chinese Communist Party has been successful.

Although the term "milestone" is a concrete expression, Qin Xiaoying, as an ideological theorist, can objectively and vividly describe what the Chinese people have experienced in the past 25 years from closedness to openness, from poverty to prosperity, and from dreams to dreams. The in-depth experience of reality, highly abstracted and summarized, and so accurately grasped and expressed so precisely, does require considerable skill and vigor. Theory has no boundaries. As an outstanding scholar with theoretical thinking and constantly capturing the breath of the times, Qin Xiaoying, who is 55 years old today, still has undiminished vigor, and the critical light in his thinking will never have boundaries.Recently, when he saw a lecture by a certain scholar on history in Zhongnanhai, he couldn't help but be very angry, thinking that it was using extremely wrong views to mislead the decision makers of the party and the country.So, he wrote vigorously and wrote the article "The Traitor's View of History Is a Copy of the Hero's View of History".He criticized idealism in the study of the causes of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from a very special angle.He denounced the external cause theory and the traitorous view of history that are still "fashionable" on this issue.He said: The drastic changes in the Soviet Union and the East were due to the comprehensive result of the transformation of the economic system, domestic and foreign policies, and the transformation of the party's ruling class.The old Soviet-style economic system was a system that severely restricted productivity and eventually induced a rebellion in productivity without a breakthrough or transformation. It was a collapse of the decision-making system and the concept of governing the country.What Gorbachev did was just a scene in the process of collapse, a historical symbol, at best it accelerated the process.If we cannot understand the problem from this perspective, then China's socialist reform will be meaningless.The traitor's view of history is the new banner of historical idealism. Simply blaming the individual for the cause of the great turmoil is to dramatize the great lesson, to localize something of universal significance, to regard the inevitable as a coincidence, and to regard the cause of the great turmoil as an accident. The alarm bell turned into a drowsy wake-up call!

When we were about to end this article, I suddenly remembered what Qin Xiaoying said recently.He said: "It has been 25 years since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee. In this quarter of a century, we have synchronized with the thoughts of the Republic, and synchronized pain and joy. It can be said that the reform and opening up sings the wind, and the "Great Wind Song" all the way!" When he said this, his eyes were bright, and there was something flickering. Isn't Qin Xiaoying the one who sang "Great Wind Song"?