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Date: May 29, 2010
发布日：2010年5月29日
Topic:
The Paradox of Marxism - Reaction to the Suicides of More than a Dozen Foxconn
Workers (by Wei Jingsheng)
标题： 马克思主义的悖论 -- 从富士康十几名职工跳楼自杀事件谈起(魏京生)
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The
Paradox of Marxism - Reaction to the Suicides of More than a Dozen Foxconn
Workers
--
Wei Jingsheng
Recently,
a hot topic of the Chinese news media both inside China and overseas is the
continuing suicide incidents of more than a dozen workers of Foxconn, owned by
Taiwanese businessman Terry Gou.
This rash of suicides has been called the "Foxconn
Incident". As these workers
jump to their deaths, the news media, especially in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and
Overseas, are still digging further for news. Yet, even with limited current knowledge of the situation,
we know that the degree of brutal exploitation of the Chinese workers by the
capitalists in China has far surpassed the sweatshops criticized by Karl Marx.
The
theory of Karl Marx was really not so good, as it brought a century disaster to
the human race. Yet, to the least,
Karl Marx was a person with some sympathy. Should he have the opportunity to comment on the Communist
Party in China nowadays, he would be regretting it all the way. This evidence is too horrible to look
at, and would force him to admit his own mistakes and overthrow the theory of
the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" that he created. It was exactly the capitalists under
the system of this type of dictatorship that were able to use the workers as
draft animals without restraint, which provides prove to Marx's theory of
"workers are only one essential factors of production."
Some
people might rebut: you do not have the evidence to say Terry Gou is a Marxist,
nor to prove the "Foxconn Incident" is related to the
"Dictatorship of the Proletariat". Indeed, Mr. Gou is not a Marxist, nor a self-claimed one. However, this "Foxconn
incident" is indeed related to the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat". Who are all the capitalists of the
whole world who like the Chinese Communist Party so much and have been spending
their money to lobby the Western governments in an effort to help the Chinese
Communist government? Why have the
so-called "free media" in the West, which are controlled by big
business, been shamelessly singing the praises of the Chinese Communist Party,
simulating peace and prosperity in China?
This
time, Karl Marx is right: driven by super profits, these capitalists dare to do
any bad things including killing and arson. Who offered the super profits to them? It is the investment environment of
cheap yet good workmanship in China.
If Chinese labor could produce good products, how can it be cheap? A lot of laborers in third world countries
produce cheap goods, but they were not as good quality. Many Western business enterprises have
searched the whole globe, yet found only a few investment environments which
could produce cheap yet good products.
China is the biggest one.
What
kind of special condition could allow the Chinese workers to produce good
products, yet to accept cheap pay and miserable conditions? The scholars groomed by the capitalists
study and produce whole bunches of specious theories to explain it in favor of
the capitalists. That is their
means of livelihood so we could give little criticism. However, we have found out that these
scholars often consciously neglect one important fact: the social environment
of the dictatorship.
That
dictatorship has helped the capitalists to destroy the most important adversary
in competition - labor unions.
Without the labor unions to represent the workers, there is no need for
the capitalists to pay reasonable wages to the workers. The "surplus value" of Karl
Marx is realized in China thoroughly and undisguised. So called "reasonable wages" by these capitalists
are only essential to maintain the most minimum living conditions. The so-called "equality between
men and women" reduced the wages into half. Most families cannot maintain their survival by solely
depending on one worker.
The
workers are human, not draft animals.
Besides wages, they need an environment to live like a human, not just
at home, but also in the workplace.
In the Orient, the Japanese style feudal tradition that is utterly
unreasonable is not enough to subdue youths. So the dictatorship has its big use. Not only can one be sent to jail for
organizing labor unions, but also if one is not submissive and servile he would
receive rounds of beating, with fists, even with clubs. There are reports of using electric
batons and handcuffs as well.
According to the official statistics of the Chinese government, the guns
owned by rich peoples' private armies in China have already surpassed what is
owned by the military police. So
it is very clear as who owns this dictatorship.
When
I was chatting with capitalists of various countries who invested in China, I
have asked them why they would not let the workers organize labor unions and
why the working conditions are so terrible. Their answers are basically the following two. One is that there are no labor unions
in the Chinese businesses, so if they allowed labor unions, all the other
businesses including the Chinese government would have their objections. The other is that labor unions would
result the Chinese Communist party having an opportunity to interfere with the
business; then it would be better off to invest in countries which were not
under the leadership of the Communist Party.
From
these answers, one would argue that it is not totally fair to blame these
capitalists. The duties of these
capitalists are to make money.
They do not have the responsibility to maintain morale. In the West, where there are normal
moral and legal standards, as well as labor unions to protect workers' rights
and interest, they must care about being "good" capitalists. However, under the conditions of the
dictatorship by the Communist Party, their greediness becomes like the bunny
rabbits in Australia, who, without natural predators, lost restriction and
swamped all over.
The
dictatorship of the Communist Party is exactly responsible for creating such an
environment of lacking natural enemies.
The capitalists are transformed into devils in that dictatorial
environment. In their own
countries, they would not dare to abuse workers to such a degree. Yet, just as Karl Marx said: they are
willing to turn themselves into devils when several times more profit is
offered.
When
we are talking about human rights, democracy, rule of law, and morality, some
people think it is just preaching.
However, let us look at the sweatshops of Foxconn. Let us look at our Chinese fellows who
have to jump to their deaths, to hang themselves, to drink pesticide to their
deaths. Can we still think
that these problems are irrelevant to human rights, democracy, and rule of law?
To
hear Mr. Wei Jingsheng's commentary, please visit:
http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2010/WeiJS100528killedChineseworkers.mp3
(Written
and recorded on May 28, 2010.
Broadcasted by Radio Free Asia.)
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Wei
Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A545-W318
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号： A545-W318
Release
Date: May 29, 2010
发布日：2010年5月29日
Topic:
The Paradox of Marxism - Reaction to the Suicides of More than a Dozen Foxconn
Workers (by Wei Jingsheng)
标题： 马克思主义的悖论 -- 从富士康十几名职工跳楼自杀事件谈起(魏京生)
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马克思主义的悖论 -- 从富士康十几名职工跳楼自杀事件谈起
-- 魏京生
最近一段时间，海内外中文媒体最热门的话题，就是台商郭台铭的企业连续有十几名职工跳楼自杀，被称为“富士康事件”。以海外和港台媒体为主的挖掘新闻的行动还在进行中。但仅仅从现有的消息来看，中国的资本家残酷虐待工人的程度，就已经远远超过了马克思批评的血汗工厂了。
马克思的理论不怎么样，它给人类带来了一个世纪的灾难。但马克思至少还是个有同情心的人。如果让他来评论今天的中国共产党，他肯定要把肠子都悔青了。摆在他眼前的这些惨不忍睹的证据，一定会迫使他不得不承认自己错了；一定会全盘推翻他自己创立的无产阶级专政理论。正是在这个专政制度下的资本家们，才有条件肆无忌惮地把工人当作牲口使用，实践了马克思的"工人不过是生产要素之一"的理论。
有人会反驳说：你没有证据说郭台铭是马克思主义者；也没有证据说富士康事件和无产阶级专政有关。郭某人确实不是马克思主义者，连自称都没有。但是，富士康事件倒的确和无产阶级专政有关。为什么全世界资产阶级都那么喜欢中国共产党，花钱帮中国政府游说西方各国呢？为什么大企业控制的西方所谓自由媒体，都在无耻地替中共歌功颂德、粉饰太平呢？
这回倒是马克思说对了。在超额利润的驱使下，杀人、放火，什么坏事资本家都敢干。是谁给他们超额利润呢？是中国价廉物美的投资环境。中国的劳动力既然物美，又怎么会价廉呢？很多第三世界国家的劳动力虽然价廉，但并不物美，无法生产高档次的商品。很多西方大企业搜遍全球，只找到了为数不多的几个价廉物美的投资环境。中国是最大的一个。
是什么特殊的条件，使得中国工人虽然物美，却又不得不接受价廉的条件呢？被资本家们豢养的学者们可以研究出一大堆似是而非的理论来替资本家解释。这是学者们的饭碗，无可厚非。我们只是发现他们有意识的忽略了一点：这就是专政的社会环境。
首先，专政替资本家们消灭了最主要的竞争对手--工会。没有了代表工人的工会，资本家不必付给工人合理的工资。马克思所制定的剩余价值理论，就彻底地、赤裸裸地在中国实现了。他们所谓合理的工资，仅仅是维持最低生存条件所必需的。男女平等的女权运动，再把它降低了一半。大多数家庭仅仅靠男人工作，已经不能维持生存了。
工人也是人，不是牲口。在工资之外，他们需要像人一样的生存环境。这不但在家里，在工作场所也一样。在东方，仅仅靠日本式的蛮不讲理的封建传统，已经不能制服年轻人了。这时候专政就派上了大用场。不但搞工会要蹲监狱；对工厂的主子们没有低眉顺眼，没有阿谀奉承，没有作出一付奴才相，也要饱以老拳，甚至棍棒。听说还用上了电警棍、手铐，等等。有钱人私人武装的枪支数，据官方统计已经超过了武警的数量。这个专政是什么人的专政，已经十分清楚了。
和在中国的各国资本家聊天时，我会问到为什么你们在中国国内不让工人组织工会；为什么中国工人的劳动条件那么差？他们的回答不外乎两种。一种是说：中国的企业都没有工会，我们允许工会，所有企业，包括政府都会有意见。另一种则说：有了工会，共产党的组织就会钻进来找麻烦。那我们不如换到没有共产党的国家去投资。
看来，过分指责资本家也不太公平。资本家的职责就是赚钱，他们没有维护道德的义务。在西方，有正常的道德、法律规范；有工会维护工人的权益；他们当好资本家就可以了。在共产党专政的条件下，这些资本家的私欲就像澳大利亚的兔子一样，没有了天敌，失去了制约，就会泛滥成灾。
给他们创造这个没有天敌的环境的，正是共产党的专政。他们是被这个专制的环境改造成恶魔的。在他们自己的国家，他们绝对不敢冒法律和道德的风险，如此虐待工人。正像马克思说的那样：给他们三、四倍的利润，他们愿意成为魔鬼。
当我们讲人权、民主、法制、道德的时候。有些人以为这是说教。看看富士康的血汗工厂；看看跳楼上吊喝农药的兄弟姐妹们，这些都和人权民主法制无关吗？
聆听魏京生先生的相关录音，请访问：
http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2010/WeiJS100528killedChineseworkers.mp3
（撰写并录音于2010年5月28日。自由亚洲电台播出。）
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