Chapter 27 The best option for the real world in the second part of the Three Dangerous Words

Xiaoxi protested: "Huh, a century-old dream come true? Sun Yat-sen will be pissed off again after he comes alive! The Three Principles of the Nation, Civil Rights, and People's Livelihood, where are the civil rights? After a hundred years, the civil rights are not trampled on by you at will, and you will be severely cracked down and arrested at every turn. People, go to prison." Fang Cao said: "Yes, you said that the social order is chaotic, contradictions are great, and evil forces are rampant, but who created this chaos? Isn't it caused by the corruption and incompetence of your Communist Party? The capital has been established for more than 60 years. Is it! Is the Kuomintang now in power?"

Xiaoxi said: "According to you, China has entered a prosperous age. Why can't the country be governed by law? Shouldn't China have the rule of law? It has been in power for more than 60 years, but it still can't achieve good governance! The problem is that your Communist Party doesn't want to Political reform, all policies have become opportunities for you corrupt officials to make a fortune. Can one-party dictatorship solve your own corruption? Look at the second generation of rich and second generations of officials you have raised, how outrageous! It is completely aristocratic capitalism .”

Fang Cao said: "The Communist Party is the most hypocritical. They lie with their eyes open all day long, cover up the truth, and falsify history. You lie to me, I lie to you, and they follow the example. Even the younger generation has learned it badly. A nation with the most integrity has fallen into this. Also said it was a prosperous age?" Lao Chen also joined in and said: "Let's talk about how to make the country rich and strong, how to occupy resources, how to stimulate economic growth, surpass the sun and catch up with the United States, the cost of your economic development is so high, and even the resources of future generations have been overdrawn by you. This If we follow the old path of the development of Western industrial countries, sooner or later, we will not be able to go on.”

Fang Caodi once did business in Africa and saw a different scene.When Chinese companies do infrastructure projects in Africa, they all hire their own Chinese migrant workers instead of local people, which will not help the high local unemployment rate.China's cheap small commodities flooded the African market, ruining the only remaining local manufacturing industry.The Chinese are no different from those old European colonialists, they are all colluding with the corrupt local elite ruling class to extract local natural resources instead of building sustainable economic development for the local area.

Xiaoxi added: "Why is a really rich and powerful country so fragile, unable to stand a little criticism, and trying to stifle freedom of speech? Seeing how you are afraid of the Internet, how does it look like a big country?" After Fang Caodi returned to China, he traveled around the minority areas, and traveled all over northern and southern Xinjiang in search of his father and Sheng Shicai's footsteps.His conclusion is: the Communist Party’s ethnic policy is a failure. The Han people complain about the unfairness of reverse discrimination, but the Uighur and Tibetan minorities feel humiliated and suppressed. The corrupt bureaucrats in Xinjiang and Tibet are deeply rooted. No complaints, no peace in Xinjiang and Tibet.Fang Caodi shouted loudly: "China cannot do without a federal system."

Lao Chen said: "You, He Dongsheng, are a typical Chinese Confucian student. You are full of thoughts about governing the country and the world. You want to be an official and an emperor's teacher all day long. You get excited when you get close to power. Once you enter the center of power, you support authoritarianism. You want absolute power in the name of To do big things is actually a matter of personal desire. Doing big things is not necessarily a good thing, but it can also be a big bad thing, and there will be endless troubles. Is this kind of example rare in the past few decades?"

He Dongsheng listened with a smile, as if he was enjoying the criticism, and then said: "You are all right, I can tell you more and more, which is worse and more ridiculous than what you know. We had a meeting two days ago to discuss The landslides in the Three Gorges Reservoir area lead to the catastrophe that will lead to the blockage of the Yangtze River. Everyone knows that this will happen sooner or later. I don’t know which government will be unlucky to wipe their ass. But I tell you, you can’t watch it. Others don’t need to carry water, they want everything. People always have to abandon something. It’s impossible for a big country to not have this kind of demolition, but it can only be like this. I can tell you a truth, China is no way to compare It's better now."

Xiaoxi asked: "What do you mean there is no way to be better than now?" He Dongsheng said: "Isn't there a God in the West? God created the world, and He is all good. It is impossible to deliberately create a bad world, right? But the world does have imperfections, so the philosopher Leibniz Just defend God, saying that although the world is not perfect, it is impossible to be better, because God has created the best of the worlds He can create. If God is like this, let alone China? The current situation in China is already in It is the best under the existing conditions, and no matter how good it is, it is practically impossible. You cannot assume that China has the British parliamentary tradition, or Nordic social democracy, or the vast land resources of the United States. China is China, and history is not white. The paper can be filled in arbitrarily, and it cannot be repeated. It can only start from now. I think that China today has found the best option in the real world.”

Old Chen said: "Voltaire satirized Leibniz's mentality that the world cannot be better, 'In the best of all possible worlds, everything is already the best'" . Fang Cao said, "I don't understand." "After all, it is to defend your one-party dictatorship," Xiaoxi said. "Then can you propose another complete, feasible and better option?" He Dongsheng asked. "Not being able to mention it doesn't mean I want to accept your choice," Xiaoxi replied. He Dongsheng understood the objections and criticisms of Lao Chen, Xiao Xi, and Fang Caodi.He knows that everything comes down to the double-edged sword of the Communist Party.Blame Trotsky and Lenin for creating a one-party dictatorship.In the 1920s, Kautsky, who had been taught by Marx and Engels, had already seen the problem, saying that the bureaucratic one-party dictatorship of the Soviet Union would be worse than Western capitalist society. No wonder Lenin hated Kautsky to the bone.

But today, can China’s capitalist one-party dictatorship with socialist characteristics be replaced?Or is it already the best option in the real world? It is true that a one-party dictatorship cannot solve its own corruption, and a one-party dictatorship will inevitably suppress speech and suppress dissidents.But can China be governed without a one-party dictatorship?Can it feed and clothe 1.35 billion people?Can it carry out such a big plan as the Ice and Fire Prosperity?Can China rise so quickly? Some people may think, now that China has risen and the prosperous age has begun, it is time to end the one-party dictatorship!Twenty years ago, He Dongsheng would have thought the same way. He might join the democratic reformers in the party, and even support a Chinese Gorbachev.But today, He Dongsheng has lost confidence in Western democratic systems.More importantly, he knew that after June 4, 1989, the Chinese Communists no longer had any ideals. As a monopoly group of the Chinese regime, the Communist Party was in power to protect itself, and became an official for profit. There would never be Gorbachev. character.He Dongsheng now not only lacks passion for political reform, but even cynically thinks that it should not be reformed, cannot be reformed, and once reformed, chaos will ensue.He said: Let China maintain the status quo and develop steadily for another 20 years, and then we will talk about it.At most, some small step-by-step reforms will be implemented, and good governance will be implemented gradually.He couldn't imagine what a post-communist democratic China would look like.He said sarcastically: Political reform?Is it that easy?The final transition is not the federal system you want, not the constitutional government of European-style social democracy or American-style liberal democracy, but a Chinese-style fascist dictatorship that combines nationalism, populism, nationalism, and nationalism.

Xiaoxi replied, "You are fascists now, do you still need a transition?" He Dongsheng was not angry: "Even fascism is only in its infancy now. You haven't tasted the real taste of fascist tyranny. Listening to your words, you know that you lack imagination for evil."In He Dongsheng's mind, the appearances of a few fascist careerists in the party appeared, and he thought that if these people took power, China and the whole world would have something to look at.He even developed a sense of mission and felt it was his responsibility to prevent them from taking the stage. He Dongsheng is clear about this. The party opponents of this government come from both the left and the right, but the biggest threat comes from the extreme right.The Ice and Fire Prosperity Project actually inherited the mantle of the reform and opening up market economy. For this reason, it offended many forces and made many enemies.Both the old left and the new left are opposed to the privatization of agricultural land. Many large state-owned enterprises are dissatisfied with the opening of their monopoly industries to private enterprises. Moreover, because of the deregulation and encouragement of competition, the opportunities for government-business collusion and officials’ rent-seeking have been reduced.What's more, for a ruling party where corruption has been deeply rooted, this government's attempt to introduce the Property Declaration Sunshine Act to expose the asymmetry between the official's legal income and actual wealth has also made many corrupt officials determined to join hands to bring down this government. Party careerists who want to seize power are always looking for the weakness of those in power.The biggest weakness of the current administration is nothing but the alliance with Japan and the suspension of border disputes.Hatred against the Japanese has a broad mass base, involving generations of people, and now they are suddenly sworn brothers with Japan. Although it is in the core interests of the country, many people still cannot stand it.The joint development of the border can easily be regarded as a loss of power and humiliation of the country.The careerists in the party have seen this clearly, knowing that as long as nationalist sentiments are ignited, and they are labeled as xenophobia, capitulationism, or even treachery, this government may be unable to resist, at least the popularity will be damaged, and the world will look at it. When the nationalist sentiment in China is turbulent, they will also think that China is actually an expanding and aggressive new empire. It has implemented the China threat theory, and it is on the verge of breaking out. It no longer trusts China. The ambitious have their hands in their arms.He Dongsheng is worried that if things go on like this, China's public opinion will be kidnapped by fascist careerists. He Dongsheng even misses the disappearing liberals a little bit. Without them as targets, all anti-liberal forces such as the old left, the new left, the national populism, the national quintessence, the extreme right, etc. are directly targeting this government.It is a pity that since the world has entered a period of ice and fire and China's prosperous age has officially begun, the liberals who are regarded as pro-Western have declined, and their ideas have lost their market in China. After reflection, most of the former liberals have become supporters of this pragmatic authoritarian government , thinking that the Western road cannot be followed, and agreeing with the current Chinese model is already the best option in the real world.The remaining unrepentant liberal luminaries are effectively silenced from appearing in the media, publishing, speaking or teaching.Now, the only ones who can occasionally make a guerrilla-like voice on the Internet are small fish like Xiaoxi who have slipped through the net.