On October 18, the Zhihu question “To be honest, what do you think is the fundamental problem China is facing now?” was blocked by the platform, becoming a wasteland devoid of knowledge.
The following content is the answer of Zhihu users to this question:
Someone’s small account:
To be honest, the fundamental problem China is facing is that the truth cannot be told!! The fundamental problem cannot be discussed!!
Tangshi Sanbaishou:
The fundamental problem is: the truth cannot be told.
Or to be precise, in many, many cases where the truth should be told, the truth cannot be told (cannot be honest).
For example, in our exams, mathematics and chemistry are basically honest, right is right and wrong is wrong.
Chinese and history are a little more troublesome, there are many subjective opinions, and it’s okay.
As for Daoism or politics.
Hahahaha, seeing these 4 laughs of mine, you will understand that you can only answer according to the standard answer, even if you know that some questions are wrong or not absolutely correct, but you will still write “absolutely xxxx”, unless you don’t want points.
In addition, the school cafeteria served a rat’s head, and after a “serious and responsible official investigation”, the conclusion was: it was definitely a duck neck.
Not only did the student who ate it “voluntarily admit” that it was duck neck, but even the law enforcers who came to inspect also “voluntarily admitted” that it was duck neck.
Until the end, public opinion did not accept it (it seems that the people know whether the investigation results are true), and then they were identified, and it was found that they were lying.
But I think, who likes to lie from birth? In fact, in this case, they cannot tell the truth.
Salted fish:
Ideologically, there is no clear distinction between right and wrong, and some phenomena that cannot be explained and theories that are not in line with the times are instilled in the people, but they cannot be self-consistent, leading to confusion of thought.
In fact, those theories were reasonable when they were born, but the concepts in those theories were gradually rigidly and wrongly understood.
For example, capitalism.
The so-called capitalism in the era of Marx refers to the capitalists controlling the state power, and the capitalists being the masters of the society, not the market economy with the existence of capital in modern times.
Master means the master of being the master.
-ism means the meaning of being the master, in the market economy, capital has no dictatorship, how can we talk about -ism.
Whoever is the master is the -ism.
In the era of Marx, workers did not have the right to vote, but capitalists did.
Then, the capitalists controlled the parliament and the state machine, they gave themselves low tax rates, and they had various ways not to pay taxes, and they tried their best to exploit the workers.
Workers cannot protect their rights.
This is a bit like the end of the Ming Dynasty.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were capitalist sprouts, and large workshops appeared.
The capitalists and gentry groups at the end of the Ming Dynasty colluded to resist taxation, and the government could only pass on the taxes to the farmers in the north.
Then, the northern farmers revolted, and later, the Manchus entered the pass.
The Manchus and the Han army slaughtered the wealthy southern groups who refused to pay taxes.
From this perspective, Marx’s view that the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (capitalism) will inevitably perish is reasonable.
Marx, Engels, and many leftists all aimed to overthrow the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
Overthrow does not mean eliminate.
Two overthrow paths have emerged, one is peaceful.
In the bourgeois dictatorship countries, when most people show their strength and hope to participate in politics and be the masters, they have opened up universal suffrage.
Workers, through the advantage of numbers, through parliamentary struggles, peacefully overthrew the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
Capitalists still exist and can still participate in politics, but they cannot be dictators.
Then, new tax laws, new welfare, etc., various changes that are beneficial to the workers have appeared.
This is the democratic socialist path of the Second International (Socialist International), which produced modern welfarism.
(Singapore is one of the successful examples) Welfarism is actually in line with the thought of Marxism.
The public ownership advocated by Marx is essentially welfarism.
Under public ownership, all the value produced is theoretically owned by the whole society.
Under the market economy, the value produced is divided into three parts, one for the workers (wages and bonuses), one for the whole society (taxes), and one for the capitalists (profits) The first part is labor remuneration, which encourages workers to work hard The second part is the contribution to society The third part is the risk reward for capital The second part will theoretically be fed back to the whole society, but in fact, some of it cannot be converted into domestic demand The third part also has some that will not be converted into domestic demand, so there will be a gap between supply and demand (relative surplus of supply exceeding demand) This supply and demand gap is solved by public ownership in Marxism, and the output is fed back to the whole society and converted into domestic demand, thereby achieving a basic balance between supply and demand.
And in welfarism, it is through the government’s debt to issue welfare to the people to make up for this supply and demand gap.
This is the reason why modern welfare states dare to run deficits and dare to take on debt.
If this is not done, the supply and demand gap will lead to a decline in productivity and economic collapse.
Another path to overthrow the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie is revolution.
Some bourgeois dictatorship countries are not civilized countries, such as Tsarist Russia, etc., they have a strong winner-takes-all mindset, and they are accustomed to bloody suppression of opponents.
The people’s resistance will also be fierce.
After being radical, they turned the revolutionary goal of overthrowing the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie into eliminating the bourgeoisie.
The government incorporated capital, and the government obtained the surplus value other than the income of the workers.
This actually creates a problem: the government replaces the capitalists and occupies the ecological niche of the capitalists.
This actually creates bureaucratic monopoly capitalism.
And then two problems arise: one, as a risk taker, they do not want to take risks.
Therefore, they will use a planned economy to eliminate changes and eliminate risks.
This means that innovation is hated, and being different is even strongly opposed.
This is the reason why the Soviet Union could not innovate and could only follow at most.
Second, human nature is self-interested, and in the practice of the Soviet Union, the bureaucratic class, starting from their own interests, used the political and economic power and the state machine in their hands to actually hinder the people from being the masters.
This is the essential reason for the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the alienation of the people.
They have distanced themselves from the people and betrayed the people.
The original intention and ideal of the Soviet Union were good, otherwise so many people would not have supported it and fought for it.
However, the part of the people being the masters was destroyed by the selfish bureaucrats using system design and execution.
Night is cool and the autumn is like water:
Cognitive problems.
How to understand oneself, how to understand the world, how to understand civilization.
Therefore, I have listed the following questions: What is the driving force for the development of civilization? Where does social Darwinism exist? What is the main social contradiction in the development of Chinese history? Is freedom given and taken, as one pleases? Who is the enemy of social fairness and justice? Where does the legitimacy of power come from? Which of Confucianism and Legalism is the biggest problem that shackles China’s modernization? What is modernization? How to treat tradition? What should be the relationship between individuals and groups? Each question can be taken out separately and written into a very long article, but it is likely to be wastelandized by Zhihu.
In China, the answers to these questions are basically all wrong.
This leads to the reality in China: light on public reason, heavy on utilitarianism.
Light on facts, heavy on standing in line.
Light on logic, heavy on right and wrong.
The current mutual fighting between Palestine and Israel is a hot topic, and it is also the peak period for the wall to start suppressing different opinions on a large scale.
From a long-term perspective, it is self-evident who is more beneficial to China’s national security.
However, China’s cognitive problems have led to its own national behavior standing on the opposite side of its own long-term interests.
When you see that behavior and interests are twisted, there must be a source that is wrong at the beginning, and this source is cognition.
How to understand the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, how to understand the history of the establishment of Palestine, how to understand several Middle East wars, how to understand the coexistence of Israel and the Arabs.
However, the facts in the simplified Chinese circle are being cut, the logic is chaotic, the speech is contradictory, and the suppression is overbearing.
Faced with Hamas, Iran, and other organizations and countries that are determined to clear Israel, negotiation is of no avail, and a ceasefire is naive and ridiculous.
In the life and death struggle supported by each other’s beliefs, only fire and sword can ultimately determine the future.
Historical Garbage Recycling Station:
The fundamental problem China is facing is that no one dares to mention this fundamental problem.
Gilbert:
The most fundamental problem is that the people are not aware of their own power.
As long as they exert a little force, the shackles that bind them will break free.
But everyone chooses to wait for others to do it.
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Ten thousand light-years:
To be honest, the fundamental problem China is facing now is that there is no problem at all.
Any newspaper and magazine can prove this point.
You know, a perfect work of art does not need to be modified at all, and a perfect body does not need to evolve at all.
Is this a problem?
Nanhai Sanlang:
I have heard that the AIDS virus does not directly kill AIDS patients.
Its operating mechanism is to destroy the human immune system, making it ineffective.
Then, bacteria and viruses that are not easy to infect the human body can invade in large numbers.
Then, the most fundamental problem in the mainland is like the constitution of an AIDS patient.
Any small problem can become a big problem.
So all kinds of walls have been built.
Like bubble boy, the wall is the bubble that surrounds him, blocking all bacteria and viruses.
Anything that enters the mainland will be alienated, characterized, and pickled, and then it will develop to the point of being uncontrollable.
And the same as AIDS symptoms.
In summary, it’s a matter of constitution.
(I never delete comments)
Shui Mu Nian Hua:
Answer, the kidnapper kidnapped civilians, and the police are going to save them.
But the kidnapper is hiding behind the civilians and the knife is still against the civilians’ necks.
The kidnapper surrenders and goes to jail, which is good for both the kidnapper and the civilians, and the police don’t need to spend much effort, a win-win-win.
The current situation is that the civilians have been brainwashed by the kidnapper and have Stockholm syndrome, and are protecting the kidnapper everywhere.
And the kidnapper doesn’t want to go to jail, the possible result is that the police open fire, and the kidnapper takes the civilians to hell together, of course, in this case, the police have to spend some effort, and the result is only the police win.
When the gunshots ring out, the kidnapper will definitely die, and the civilians will either die or be seriously injured, it is not certain.
This is the fundamental problem we are facing, Zhihu, share the jokes I just made up.
magicnight:
There is no problem at all, don’t ask nonsense
Xun Ge Zhong Qu:
The problem we are facing at this stage is that the relations of production are hindering the development of the productive forces.
Fundamentally speaking, it is that the most fundamental problem has not been solved, the tradition has been smashed, but no universal recognition can be established to replace it.
I thought that relying on development could solve this problem, but the result was counterproductive.
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