Chapter 23 If the Communist Party does not pursue modernization, the ruling foundation will be shaken

Just now you said: "If we really want to build socialism, we must first turn peasants into workers, and secondly turn workers into intellectuals, and turn 'blue-collar workers' into 'white-collar workers'. This is the law of historical development." It reminds me of a point that you often promoted before, which is: the most exciting event in the entire 20th century was "1956, the first great turning point in the United States when 'white-collar' workers surpassed 'blue-collar' workers. ". The first representative of the "Three Represents" is "representing the development requirements of advanced productive forces".What is advanced productivity?Modern science and technology are the growth points and pioneers of new advanced productive forces.

Until the 19th century, the new advanced productive forces, whether it was the quality of workers, or advanced production tools, labor objects, and production management, all relied on the accumulation of craftsmen's technical experience and improvements on the basis of it.Without the guidance of scientific theory, there will be no science and technology that can be transformed into productivity in the true sense. Even Watt's invention of the steam engine that set off the earth-shattering "Industrial Revolution" is the same. Since the birth of thermodynamics, electromagnetism, and chemistry in the 19th century, the results of scientific research have been applied to production, and science and technology have become more and more closely linked to production. After the 20th century, the situation changed fundamentally.Deng Xiaoping said: "Modern science opens up the way for the progress of production technology and determines its development direction. Many new production tools and new processes are first created in scientific laboratories. A series of emerging industries, such as polymer synthesis Industry, atomic energy industry, electronic computer industry, semiconductor industry, aerospace industry, laser industry, etc. are all built on the basis of emerging science. Of course, whether it is now or in the future, there will be many theoretical studies, and people have not yet seen it. Its application prospects. However, a large number of historical facts have shown that once a major breakthrough is made in theoretical research, sooner or later it will bring about huge progress in production and technology.” Science is like this, and technology also requires complex research and development. The results obtained in the laboratory are then applied to production to create new advanced productivity.

Microelectronics technology, bioengineering technology, new materials, new energy, etc. are increasingly showing the important characteristics of modern science and technology.In particular, microelectronics technology has huge and profound radiating power and penetrating power, which has revolutionized a series of industries.Now which big company does not have a huge scientific research institution and a large amount of scientific research funding?At the same time, it is this technological innovation mechanism that in turn promotes the rapid development of modern science and technology.Today, scientific research has increasingly become an important production process, more and more enterprises have the nature of scientific research, scientific and technological personnel engaged in scientific research and other mental workers have increasingly become the main force of social production and social progress military.

As a result, in 1956, the United States was the first to enter a great turning point in which "white-collar" workers outnumbered "blue-collar" workers. In 1956, the proportion of mental workers in the United States reached 50.2%, which opened a new era in which mental workers became the main force of social labor. In 1996, when I visited the United States, there were still 10% of the "blue-collar workers" in the United States, which created extensive conditions for the comprehensive and free development of people.Marx once called communism "a society whose basic principle is the comprehensive and free development of each individual".

Engels once summed up communism in one sentence at the request of others. He said it was a famous saying in the "Communist Manifesto": "There, the free development of everyone is the condition for the free development of all people." Now, in a few developed countries Physical labor has been reduced to a considerable extent, and mental labor has become the chief labor of mankind.The division of labor and the elimination of opposition between physical labor and mental labor are not achieved through the combination of physical labor and mental labor, but through the process of ebb and flow, through the efficiency brought by the information superhighway. Huge improvement to complete.Faced with this situation, how can we Communists not keep pace with the times and consider our own reality and future class foundation?How can we bury capitalism if we neither represent the advanced productive forces nor represent the population as the most advanced technological class in society?How to build socialism?If our party in the future eliminates the division of labor and confrontation between physical labor and mental labor, and successfully reduces the proportion of manual workers and "blue-collar workers" in the population to a small minority in society, and insists that it is only the vanguard representing the workers, Still insisting on taking the working class as the leader and the worker-peasant alliance as the basis, the Communist Party will enter into a dilemma when it comes to power: one is whether you want to modernize, if you don’t, history will eliminate you; the other is if you modernize, you can’t It only represents the immediate interests of a few people.

All the ruling parties started with the slogan of "enriching the country and strengthening the people". After coming to power, they cannot solve this problem and can only collapse, including the Kuomintang.Even if food and clothing are solved, a well-off society must be solved; even if a well-off society is achieved, prosperity must be solved.Human desires are unlimited.No matter which leader of yours comes to power, he has to solve this problem.The desires of the people cannot be looked back, and the vested interests of the people cannot be violated.Therefore, the Communist Party must carry out modernization. If it does not carry out modernization, the ruling foundation will be shaken, the legitimacy of the ruling will be questioned, and the leadership will not be consolidated and will not last long.

Therefore, we must study the law of common development of mankind and the law of socialist construction.The common people want to live and work in peace and contentment, so we must act in accordance with the law.I don't intend to say that the latest scientific and technological achievements such as computers, multimedia and information superhighways are realizing socialism and communism, or that human beings will rely on information superhighways and so on to realize socialism and communism, but I must say that this new technological revolution belong to socialism and communism.I must say that Deng Xiaoping's thesis is really wonderful: "Science is inseparable from the realization of human aspirations, the elimination of poverty in the third world cannot be separated from science, and the maintenance of world peace cannot be separated from science."