As the title suggests, reposted from a personal chat, hoping to provoke widespread discussion and also help clarify doubts.
luanma: Marxists do not violently declare that old culture is heresy and evil, and that it should all be burned. That is not the approach of Marxism.
daydayup: So what’s the situation with overthrowing demons and evil spirits?
luanma: Of course, wrong things should be overthrown, but that doesn’t mean they are useless.
luanma: For example, statues of gods, they are created to deceive people, but Marxists are not going to smash the statues.
luanma: Because although the ideas conveyed by the statues are religious superstitions, the people who made the statues are the working people.
luanma: The more exquisite the statues, the higher the craftsmanship of the working people.
daydayup: Weren’t many cultural relics smashed back then?
daydayup: That’s what I remember being said.
daydayup: Why destroy cultural relics that have historical research value?
luanma: Maybe we should start a post to discuss this.
luanma: Cultural relics need to be analyzed specifically, looking at the specific situation at that time.
luanma: For example, places like Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou.
luanma: That shouldn’t have been smashed. At that time, the Red Guards even said they would defend Lingyin Temple with their lives.
luanma: I don’t know if you’ve seen this picture.
luanma: This was posted by the Red Guards.
luanma: Those who wanted to smash Lingyin Temple back then were actually some of the privileged classes within the Party, some bourgeoisie who infiltrated the Party. They wanted to smash Lingyin Temple to divert the attention of the people at that time, so that the people would no longer focus on criticizing them, but instead vent their anger at the dead and inanimate objects.
daydayup:
Ah, I’ve received it now.daydayup: The amount of information is a bit overwhelming, I’m confused.
luanma: No problem, if you don’t understand, you can ask. But I think it might be good to repost the chat logs on the forum for open discussion. Others will definitely know more, and they can also help answer your questions.
@daydayup Can you talk about your impressions of these vandalized artifacts, where these impressions come from, whether they are reliable, and which social class the person speaking belongs to.
To be honest, it is actually the bourgeoisie that has carried out extensive destruction of cultural relics, such as various tomb raiding and selling of artifacts, and there are even novels like “The Lost Tomb” that glamorize tomb raiders and spread their influence.
The background of the Tomb Raider Notes is mostly after the restoration, which actually reflects the rampant tomb raiding activities at that time, because during the socialist period, people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and the proletarian dictatorship was unprecedentedly strong, leaving no space for tomb raiders. Moreover, Tomb Raider Notes also promote very vulgar claims that whitewashing tomb raiders, saying that archaeology is just legal tomb raiding, and adopting a “mutual understanding” philosophy that is worse than bad, but it also indirectly reflects that the so-called “archaeology” of the Chinese Communist Party’s officialdom is actually all tomb raiding.
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It seems to be from a book, I saw a TV show called National Treasure before? I can’t remember it very clearly.
Will the bourgeoisie still go tomb raiding?!
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丙希赏析 丨 故宫文物被拍卖？究竟有多少文物被掉包了…… Although the headlines often highlight tomb robbers, thefts of cultural relics from various museums are not uncommon, let alone those of unknown origin. In fact, the bourgeoisie may use these tomb robbers to obtain antiques. However, some associations are far-fetched, like the bourgeoisie’s tacit approval of human traffickers, which can help them acquire organ transplant donors or buy and sell women and children to satisfy their various private interests.
Is there tacit approval of human traffickers?! I still don’t quite believe it. If there is tacit approval, why would they still crack down on human traffickers?
The crackdown is fake, while tolerance is real. In fact, those involved in buying and selling women are usually wealthy farmers, new landlords, village officials, and local bullies from rural areas. They are the foundation of the current middle-class rule in rural areas. They buy women and children to serve as household slaves, which helps the middle class establish Confucian dominance in the countryside, allowing local tyrants to use Confucian chains to bind the impoverished villagers. For example, some village tyrants treat women as slaves, buying them to continue the family line and have their descendants inherit property, thus maintaining the next generation of village tyrants. Additionally, some very backward villages have clan systems, where various classes and social strata of villagers are nominally part of the same clan, and exploitation and oppression are carried out in the name of “same clan and kinship.” Those involved in trafficking women and children hope to perpetuate their own families and continue to exploit and oppress other impoverished farmers within the clan-based extended family system.
The so-called reform in China is actually a cover-up for their reactionary actions under the guise of justice, or they are forced to do some superficial work under the pressure of the people. This is true in all aspects of social life. For example, some netizens say that if traffickers are executed after being caught, no one would dare to sell women and children anymore, but the reform in China has always been lenient with traffickers. For instance, Yu Huaying easily escaped punishment the first time she trafficked children under a pseudonym, and continued to commit numerous crimes afterward. It was only under pressure from the people that she was sentenced to death.
Furthermore, the protection of rapists by the Chinese authorities is even more obvious. Raping young girls is only sentenced to a dozen or so years or even seven or eight years, which is a mere formality. Many victims are buried in history, and the rampant pornography in society clearly reflects the reactionary nature of the Chinese regime. Does the regime lack the power to ban such content? Of course not. On one hand, the ruling class that controls material production also controls spiritual production, and their decadence has created an extremely reactionary pornographic culture. On the other hand, this is used to numb the people, corrupt their morals, and even turn them into defenders of the reactionary rule.
It should be remembered that each class acts in its own interest; a class cannot act beyond its own interests to benefit the opposing class. Any improvements for the oppressed class are achieved through their own struggle.
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So that’s how it is…
I remember there was a case of a woman with chains before, and it seems to have been left unresolved as well. Thinking about it, I find it really terrifying.
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It is not that it cannot be done, but that it is not done.
During the socialist period in China, heinous crimes such as trafficking and rape were extremely rare. However, after the reform and opening-up, the disintegration of the socialist economy and the corruption of bourgeois ideology created many individuals influenced by reactionary ideas. The status of workers also fell to the lowest level, losing control over state power, and naturally, they could no longer defend their interests. The state apparatus serves the ruling class, so in today’s China under bureaucratic monopoly capitalism, it naturally serves the interests of this small group of people.
Actually, I also thought about the issue of the cooling-off period for divorce. It seems to be for the maintenance of marriage, but in reality, women face obstacles or even life-threatening dangers during this period, while men have never had to worry about this. It is very clear for whom the laws made by the ruling class serve. Although sometimes I also think that laws are good, but people just implement them wrongly, I still have to constantly remember the reactionary nature of the Zhongxiu government.
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The local authorities in rural areas rely on these village bullies to maintain control, so how could they truly crack down on these people? In ancient times, these individuals would be called “gentry” or “local worthies,” and the ruling class relied on these local power brokers to maintain regional dominance.
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A more typical example is that before Jiang Zemin’s death, there were protests across the country against human traffickers, who were driving vans specifically to abduct children. The Zhongxiu (中修) was specifically debunking videos of human traffickers in the comment sections, with only one sarcastic comment about Zhongxiu appearing. At that time, the Hu Xinyu incident also caused a stir; Zhongxiu’s reports were very suspicious, initially claiming Hu Xinyu’s body was incomplete, and later saying it was a hanging suicide. The matter was eventually dropped, and after Jiang Zemin’s death, the human traffickers temporarily ceased their activities. Additionally, a Zhongxiu official once revealed that he had ‘exchanged his organs several times,’ but the source of these organs is uncertain. I did not save a screenshot of this at the time, so you can ask others on the forum.
I remembered another thing: Shulan Hospital performs liver transplants without waiting in line, but the head of this hospital, Zheng Shusen, was exposed for possibly using executed prisoners’ livers for scientific research.
https://tieba.baidu.com/p/6054297810
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