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Title: A Hundred Years Wasted, Two Extremes Reached -- Wei Jingsheng
标题：百年蹉跎，两个极端 -- 魏京生
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A Hundred Years Wasted, Two Extremes Reached
-- Wei Jingsheng
Recently, the CCP's public opinion has started to praise the Boxer Rebellion again. Most of the sober people in China and the world know that the so-called Boxer Movement was a group of idiot banditry under the connivance of the ruling group. Its ideological root was the self-satisfaction and xenophobia among the people at the bottom caused by the megalomania and isolation of the country since the Ming and Qing Dynasties in China.
China under Xi Jinping now seems to have returned to that era. The root of the so-called nationalism is megalomania and isolation of the country. From the public opinion, this self-satisfaction coupled with xenophobic tendencies has already begun long ago. Even racism, which has not been Chinese culture since ancient times, is rampant. It's indeed hard to learn something good, but easy to learn something bad quickly.
Back then, when European countries were learning from the successful cultural, institutional, and technological achievements of the world and rapidly moving toward modernization, China began the megalomaniac and closed-door isolation of the Ming and Qing dynasties. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Western cannons carried with new culture and new technologies stroked the self-confidence of this old empire. As a result, two backlashes arose: one extreme was Complete Westernization, dominated by half-knowing literati; the other was a movement to defend the backward system, based on ignorant religious and superstitious organizations. The struggle between these two created a wasted century in China – with every step forward it went backward two steps, until finally it reached the communist serf system that brought China two thousand years backwards.
After these two schools of thought competed, eventually a third faction appeared from the Complete Westernization faction. On the surface it was completely Westernized, as it learned from Communism, one of the freaks of Western thought. But in China, it actually was a hybrid of Western freaks and Eastern serfdom -- Soviet-style serfdom. In Russia, they had only gone backwards for more than a hundred years, and the Russian people's discomfort was not too serious. In China, under a more than 2,000-year setback, the Chinese people and society are seriously out of whack. This is the fundamental reason why resistance against Communism in China predates the Soviet Union.
Although Deng Xiaoping's half-way reforms had many shortcomings, he made China abandon its isolation and restore economic vitality. This is his great contribution to China. But, in order to not give up the autocratic politics of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Deng greatly restricted the development of the market economy. This shows that he had not chosen the path of modernization well, and was still hesitating and only half-way reforming. In the era of Xi Jinping, we are already faced with a situation of advancing or retreating. The so-called Chinese model, after losing the prospect of Western blood transfusion, has to find a new way out.
A step forward is to make up for the shortcomings of Deng Xiaoping's reform, by combining the reform of the political system with the reform of the legal and economic system, so China can embark on the path of healthy development of democracy and a market economy. This is the normal path of modernization. A step back is to return to Mao Zedong's Soviet-style feudal serfdom combined with a one-party dictatorship system. Comrade Xi Jinping has Stockholm Syndrome and likes the Soviet-style autocracy that persecuted his family in the past. He chose to go back to the Mao Zedong era, politically developing a Western-style modern autocracy with a serfdom-styled state-run planned economy, in order to cooperate with autocratic politics.
This road is obviously a dead end, and it can only make China fall behind and fall apart. Not only will it fail to preserve the one-party dictatorship of the CCP, but it will also lead to a catastrophe that is even more tragic than the Cultural Revolution. Does China still have a future? This is a question that friends of all factions will ask. Complete Westernization is impossible, and to stand still is also impossible, and the hybrid of a Communist system is even more hopeless. What should be done then?
Only by honestly studying the successful experiences of European and American countries, learning all the successful ideas, cultures, institutional and scientific and technological achievements in the world, and developing democracy and the rule of law on the basis of our own national culture, can we catch up with developed countries and enter the big modern family. Japan, Korea and Taiwan are examples of success in the East.
As the old Chinese saying goes: hasty attempts will cause delays. Mao Zedong and a group of May Fourth literati all wanted to run into communism or whatever-ism, but the result was a disaster. Yet Americans started from pragmatism and honesty to improve their lives, and have developed into the most advanced country in the world. This historical experience is worthy of our careful study. We should not be ambitious for things we are unable to reach.
(This English version is translated by Ciping HUANG, without any compensation. Wei Jingsheng and the Wei Jingsheng Foundation appreciate her decades of contribution, especially for allowing the use and distribution of her translations of these commentaries.)
Original link of the commentary broadcasted by Radio Free Asia:
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/pinglun/weijingsheng/wjs-09132022100231.html
To hear Mr. Wei Jingsheng's related commentary, please visit:
http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2022/WeiJS220912on2extremes.mp3
(Written and recorded on September 12, 2022. Broadcasted by Radio Free Asia on September 13, 2022.)
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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1508-W1088
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1508-W1088
Release Date: September 13, 2022
发布日：2022年9月13日
Title: A Hundred Years Wasted, Two Extremes Reached -- Wei Jingsheng
标题：百年蹉跎，两个极端 -- 魏京生
Original Language Version: Chinese (Chinese version at the end)
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百年蹉跎，两个极端
-- 魏京生
最近中共的舆论导向，又开始吹捧义和团了。中国和世界绝大多数头脑清醒的人们，都清楚所谓的义和团运动，就是一群愚不可及的刁民，在当权集团纵容下的土匪行径。其思想根源，是明清以来的自大狂加上闭关锁国，在底层人民中造成的自我满足和排外倾向。
现在习近平治下的中国，似乎又回到了那个时代。所谓民族主义的根本，就是自大狂和闭关锁国。而且从舆论上看，自我满足加上排外倾向，已经开始多时了。连自古就不是中国文化的种族主义，也泛滥成灾。真是学好不容易，学坏速成班。
当年，正当欧洲各国学习世界成功的文化、制度和科技的成就，迅速走向现代化之时，中国开始了明清时代的自大狂加上闭关锁国。到了清朝末年，西方的大炮携带着新文化、新技术，冲击了老大帝国的自信心。结果产生了两股反弹：一个极端是全盘西化，以半吊子文人为主；另一个就是保卫落后制度的运动，以愚昧的宗教迷信组织为基础。两相斗争，造就了中国的百年蹉跎，进一步又退两步，最终选择了落后两千年的共产主义农奴制。
两派思潮相争，最终从全盘西化派里边分化出了第三派--非驴非马的共产主义派。表面上全盘西化了，学习了西方思想的怪胎之一共产主义。实际上实行的是西方怪胎和东方农奴制的杂种--苏联式的农奴制。在俄国，他们只是倒退了一百多年，人民的不适应还不太严重。在中国就是倒退了两千多年，人民和社会严重地不适应。这就是中国的反抗早于苏联的根本原因。
邓小平的半吊子改革虽有很多缺点，但他使中国放弃了闭关锁国，恢复了经济的活力。这是他对中国的一大功劳。但他为了不放弃共产党的专制政治，极大地限制了市场经济的发展。这说明他没有选择好现代化的道路，仍然在踌躇蹉跎，半吊子改革。到了习近平这个时代，已经面临着是进还是退的局面。所谓的中国模式，在失去了西方输血的前景下，不得不找新的出路。
前进一步，就是补齐邓小平改革的缺陷，以政治体制改革配合法律和经济体制的改革，中国可以走上民主和市场经济健康发展的道路，这才是正常的现代化道路。倒退一步，就是回到毛泽东的苏联式的封建农奴制，结合一党专政的体制。小习同志斯德哥尔摩综合症，喜欢迫害他们全家的苏联式的专制。他选择了倒退回毛泽东时代，政治上发展了西方式的现代化专制，经济上再走农奴制的国营计划经济，以便于配合专制政治。
这条路明显是走不通的道路，只能让中国倒退落后，分崩离析。它不但保不了共产党的一党专政，还会导致比文革还更惨痛的大劫难。中国还有前途吗？这是无论哪一派的朋友们都会问出的问题。全盘西化不可能，固步自封也不可能，共产党的杂种体制更加没前途。怎么办？
只有老老实实学习欧美各国的成功经验，学习世界上所有成功的思想、文化、制度和科学技术成果，发展出自己国家文化基础上的民主和法治，才能赶上发达国家，进入现代化的大家庭。日本、韩国和台湾，是东方成功的例子。
古语说：欲速则不达。毛泽东和一众五四文人，都想跑步进入共产主义或者什么主义，结果都是灾难。而美国人从实用主义出发，老老实实地改进自己的生活，却发展出世界最先进的国家。这个历史的经验，值得我们仔细地好好学习。不要再好高骛远了。
(本评论的英文版本由黄慈萍翻译。魏京生和魏京生基金会感谢她数十年来有关的无偿贡献，特别是使用和发布此译文的许可。)
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（撰写并录音于2022年9月12日。自由亚洲电台2022年9月13日播出。）
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魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1508-W1088
Release Date: September 13, 2022
发布日：2022年9月13日
Title: A Hundred Years Wasted, Two Extremes Reached -- Wei Jingsheng
标题：百年蹉跎，两个极端 -- 魏京生
Original Language Version: Chinese (Chinese version at the end)
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A Hundred Years Wasted, Two Extremes Reached
-- Wei Jingsheng
Recently, the CCP's public opinion has started to praise the Boxer Rebellion again. Most of the sober people in China and the world know that the so-called Boxer Movement was a group of idiot banditry under the connivance of the ruling group. Its ideological root was the self-satisfaction and xenophobia among the people at the bottom caused by the megalomania and isolation of the country since the Ming and Qing Dynasties in China.
China under Xi Jinping now seems to have returned to that era. The root of the so-called nationalism is megalomania and isolation of the country. From the public opinion, this self-satisfaction coupled with xenophobic tendencies has already begun long ago. Even racism, which has not been Chinese culture since ancient times, is rampant. It's indeed hard to learn something good, but easy to learn something bad quickly.
Back then, when European countries were learning from the successful cultural, institutional, and technological achievements of the world and rapidly moving toward modernization, China began the megalomaniac and closed-door isolation of the Ming and Qing dynasties. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Western cannons carried with new culture and new technologies stroked the self-confidence of this old empire. As a result, two backlashes arose: one extreme was Complete Westernization, dominated by half-knowing literati; the other was a movement to defend the backward system, based on ignorant religious and superstitious organizations. The struggle between these two created a wasted century in China – with every step forward it went backward two steps, until finally it reached the communist serf system that brought China two thousand years backwards.
After these two schools of thought competed, eventually a third faction appeared from the Complete Westernization faction. On the surface it was completely Westernized, as it learned from Communism, one of the freaks of Western thought. But in China, it actually was a hybrid of Western freaks and Eastern serfdom -- Soviet-style serfdom. In Russia, they had only gone backwards for more than a hundred years, and the Russian people's discomfort was not too serious. In China, under a more than 2,000-year setback, the Chinese people and society are seriously out of whack. This is the fundamental reason why resistance against Communism in China predates the Soviet Union.
Although Deng Xiaoping's half-way reforms had many shortcomings, he made China abandon its isolation and restore economic vitality. This is his great contribution to China. But, in order to not give up the autocratic politics of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Deng greatly restricted the development of the market economy. This shows that he had not chosen the path of modernization well, and was still hesitating and only half-way reforming. In the era of Xi Jinping, we are already faced with a situation of advancing or retreating. The so-called Chinese model, after losing the prospect of Western blood transfusion, has to find a new way out.
A step forward is to make up for the shortcomings of Deng Xiaoping's reform, by combining the reform of the political system with the reform of the legal and economic system, so China can embark on the path of healthy development of democracy and a market economy. This is the normal path of modernization. A step back is to return to Mao Zedong's Soviet-style feudal serfdom combined with a one-party dictatorship system. Comrade Xi Jinping has Stockholm Syndrome and likes the Soviet-style autocracy that persecuted his family in the past. He chose to go back to the Mao Zedong era, politically developing a Western-style modern autocracy with a serfdom-styled state-run planned economy, in order to cooperate with autocratic politics.
This road is obviously a dead end, and it can only make China fall behind and fall apart. Not only will it fail to preserve the one-party dictatorship of the CCP, but it will also lead to a catastrophe that is even more tragic than the Cultural Revolution. Does China still have a future? This is a question that friends of all factions will ask. Complete Westernization is impossible, and to stand still is also impossible, and the hybrid of a Communist system is even more hopeless. What should be done then?
Only by honestly studying the successful experiences of European and American countries, learning all the successful ideas, cultures, institutional and scientific and technological achievements in the world, and developing democracy and the rule of law on the basis of our own national culture, can we catch up with developed countries and enter the big modern family. Japan, Korea and Taiwan are examples of success in the East.
As the old Chinese saying goes: hasty attempts will cause delays. Mao Zedong and a group of May Fourth literati all wanted to run into communism or whatever-ism, but the result was a disaster. Yet Americans started from pragmatism and honesty to improve their lives, and have developed into the most advanced country in the world. This historical experience is worthy of our careful study. We should not be ambitious for things we are unable to reach.
(This English version is translated by Ciping HUANG, without any compensation. Wei Jingsheng and the Wei Jingsheng Foundation appreciate her decades of contribution, especially for allowing the use and distribution of her translations of these commentaries.)
Original link of the commentary broadcasted by Radio Free Asia:
https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/pinglun/weijingsheng/wjs-09132022100231.html
To hear Mr. Wei Jingsheng's related commentary, please visit:
http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2022/WeiJS220912on2extremes.mp3
(Written and recorded on September 12, 2022. Broadcasted by Radio Free Asia on September 13, 2022.)
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Release Date: September 13, 2022
发布日：2022年9月13日
Title: A Hundred Years Wasted, Two Extremes Reached -- Wei Jingsheng
标题：百年蹉跎，两个极端 -- 魏京生
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百年蹉跎，两个极端
-- 魏京生
最近中共的舆论导向，又开始吹捧义和团了。中国和世界绝大多数头脑清醒的人们，都清楚所谓的义和团运动，就是一群愚不可及的刁民，在当权集团纵容下的土匪行径。其思想根源，是明清以来的自大狂加上闭关锁国，在底层人民中造成的自我满足和排外倾向。
现在习近平治下的中国，似乎又回到了那个时代。所谓民族主义的根本，就是自大狂和闭关锁国。而且从舆论上看，自我满足加上排外倾向，已经开始多时了。连自古就不是中国文化的种族主义，也泛滥成灾。真是学好不容易，学坏速成班。
当年，正当欧洲各国学习世界成功的文化、制度和科技的成就，迅速走向现代化之时，中国开始了明清时代的自大狂加上闭关锁国。到了清朝末年，西方的大炮携带着新文化、新技术，冲击了老大帝国的自信心。结果产生了两股反弹：一个极端是全盘西化，以半吊子文人为主；另一个就是保卫落后制度的运动，以愚昧的宗教迷信组织为基础。两相斗争，造就了中国的百年蹉跎，进一步又退两步，最终选择了落后两千年的共产主义农奴制。
两派思潮相争，最终从全盘西化派里边分化出了第三派--非驴非马的共产主义派。表面上全盘西化了，学习了西方思想的怪胎之一共产主义。实际上实行的是西方怪胎和东方农奴制的杂种--苏联式的农奴制。在俄国，他们只是倒退了一百多年，人民的不适应还不太严重。在中国就是倒退了两千多年，人民和社会严重地不适应。这就是中国的反抗早于苏联的根本原因。
邓小平的半吊子改革虽有很多缺点，但他使中国放弃了闭关锁国，恢复了经济的活力。这是他对中国的一大功劳。但他为了不放弃共产党的专制政治，极大地限制了市场经济的发展。这说明他没有选择好现代化的道路，仍然在踌躇蹉跎，半吊子改革。到了习近平这个时代，已经面临着是进还是退的局面。所谓的中国模式，在失去了西方输血的前景下，不得不找新的出路。
前进一步，就是补齐邓小平改革的缺陷，以政治体制改革配合法律和经济体制的改革，中国可以走上民主和市场经济健康发展的道路，这才是正常的现代化道路。倒退一步，就是回到毛泽东的苏联式的封建农奴制，结合一党专政的体制。小习同志斯德哥尔摩综合症，喜欢迫害他们全家的苏联式的专制。他选择了倒退回毛泽东时代，政治上发展了西方式的现代化专制，经济上再走农奴制的国营计划经济，以便于配合专制政治。
这条路明显是走不通的道路，只能让中国倒退落后，分崩离析。它不但保不了共产党的一党专政，还会导致比文革还更惨痛的大劫难。中国还有前途吗？这是无论哪一派的朋友们都会问出的问题。全盘西化不可能，固步自封也不可能，共产党的杂种体制更加没前途。怎么办？
只有老老实实学习欧美各国的成功经验，学习世界上所有成功的思想、文化、制度和科学技术成果，发展出自己国家文化基础上的民主和法治，才能赶上发达国家，进入现代化的大家庭。日本、韩国和台湾，是东方成功的例子。
古语说：欲速则不达。毛泽东和一众五四文人，都想跑步进入共产主义或者什么主义，结果都是灾难。而美国人从实用主义出发，老老实实地改进自己的生活，却发展出世界最先进的国家。这个历史的经验，值得我们仔细地好好学习。不要再好高骛远了。
(本评论的英文版本由黄慈萍翻译。魏京生和魏京生基金会感谢她数十年来有关的无偿贡献，特别是使用和发布此译文的许可。)
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（撰写并录音于2022年9月12日。自由亚洲电台2022年9月13日播出。）
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