Chapter 30 Edison's Failed Inventions (2)

Today I will take a specific material, a specific antique, and a specific voice that can still be conveyed in a hundred years.Today we recall that Edison could record his voice in this machine, and he could hear his own voice, and Mao Zedong could also record his voice in this machine, or a newer machine developed later, to Hearing his own voice, but what did that voice prove?proved itself a failure.This failure does not mean that Mao Zedong's other contributions were obliterated, so Deng Xiaoping made it very clear that it was not that Mao Zedong's other contributions were obliterated, but that he found that Mao Zedong had obliterated himself.Therefore, we saw in the 1981 "Resolution on Certain Issues Concerning the History of the Party Since the Founding of the People's Republic of China" that it was mentioned that the "Cultural Revolution" initiated by Mao Zedong was initiated and led by Mao Zedong, but Mao Zedong clearly deviated from the track of Mao Zedong Thought .Why? We can see that due to Edison's mistake, he made one of his own achievements, one of his own inventions, with a 30% discount.In other words, because of Mao Zedong's mistakes, his own Mao Zedong Thought was also compromised by 30% or 80%.So, later Deng Xiaoping stepped forward, and he said that it would be 30-70%.Thirty-seven percent means that 70% of Mao Zedong's contribution to China is positive, and 30% is wrong, which is called thirty-seven percent.In fact, three to seven is what Mao Zedong said to Deng Xiaoping before his death.He said that after my death, I felt very happy and happy to be expelled by Sanqi.And 37% is also Mao Zedong's evaluation of Stalin, that is, three points of mistakes and seven points of credit.

When I said these words, according to Deng Xiaoping's standards, I didn't say that Mao Zedong had no credit. No, he still had 37% credit.But it must be said that he did one thing he didn't understand, that is, he ignored productivity.In other words, he knows how to revolutionize, but not to engage in economics.He felt it himself.So I just showed him what he said, that is, he felt that the imperialists would see our jokes and see if we could do a good job in the economy, and they really were laughed at by others. So in the era of Deng Xiaoping, he said that we should look at the history of the "Cultural Revolution" as a whole, which proved that Comrade Mao Zedong's main thesis of launching the "Cultural Revolution" was neither in line with Marxism nor in line with China's reality, and it was completely wrong .Did you see that? Comrade Mao Zedong bears the main responsibility for the overall, long-term serious leftist error of the "Cultural Revolution".This is where his tragedy lies, the tragedy of Mao Zedong.This is a document officially issued by the Communist Party of China and released publicly.

This lesson tells us, it's called the Edison lesson, the Edison model, what I call it, the first time you do it right, but the second time you do it wrong, you overthrow yourself and see you overthrow.So in the end, what did Deng Xiaoping conclude? That is, we must use the accurate and complete Mao Zedong Thought to guide our entire party from generation to generation.In other words, Mao Zedong himself ignored the complete Mao Zedong Thought, which is why this mistake occurred, because he was basically pragmatic, but when you don’t understand economics, you act recklessly, you “Great Leap Forward”, “Cultural Revolution” ", if you act recklessly, you will make yourself unable to close the game while you are alive, and see with your own eyes that the Chinese revolution has encountered a certain degree of setback.

Let's look at it again. He said that although Mao Zedong made serious mistakes during the "Cultural Revolution", as far as his life is concerned, his contributions to the Chinese revolution far outweighed his faults. His achievements came first. His mistakes are secondary.Therefore, we have now made it very clear that Deng Xiaoping said that the criticism of Mao Zedong’s mistakes in his later years should not be excessive or out of line, because negating such a great historical figure means negating an important history of our country, which also leads to ideological confusion. Chaos leads to political instability.

My entire program today is to tell you how Mao Zedong made mistakes, and the result of his mistakes was that the situation in China, from the "Great Leap Forward" to the "Cultural Revolution", delayed 20 years of youth, How many people paid the price, the whole country paid the price. At this time, we can see that Edison's mistake was actually small.Why? That was a personal cost to Edison, a tragedy in so many of his own inventions, this machine.When we see the electric light shining on us now, we think that it is the electric light invented by Edison, and we thank him for his contribution, but what did Edison think when he was dying? Thinking about it would make him miserable.Why? It's just that he doesn't understand the market.He only invents things, he doesn't understand the market.The market does not need this kind of thing, the market does not need this cylindrical type, which is very inconvenient to use, the market does not need this kind of thing, but Edison insists that his method is right.Just like Mao Zedong, during the "Cultural Revolution", he said that we want communism, everyone has no money, everyone is equally poor.This is wrong.

Therefore, Deng Xiaoping made it very clear: If you are poor, everyone is poor. This is not socialism.Not being able to create productive forces is neither socialism nor communism.If you have money, you can have communism, if you don't have money, you can have communism.Therefore, having money is communism.Poor and rich, rich is communism, rich is socialism, rich is socialism.Poor communism is a lie, and real communism is by no means poor. This story tells us that Edison's model reminds everyone that all great revolutionaries and pioneers must reflect on themselves: Did you do the second step right? When you did the second step wrong, you will see it with your own eyes. s failure.