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发布日：2010年5月30日
Topic:
The Way Out for China (Part X) -- Wei Jingsheng
标题： 《中国的出路》之十 -- 魏京生
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The
Way Out for China, Part X
--
Wei Jingsheng
In
the previous 9 sections, we have roughly talked about the advantages of a
democratic politics, as well as some special characteristics of democratic
politics that make it different from other political systems. Some friends are not so satisfied and
complained. They said that I did
not talk enough about human nature; that there are corruptions and some
officials are rotten and selfish, etc.
That lack of discussion would influence people to accept a democratic
system, due to your flattery which is not truthful, etc.
This
kind of criticism is different from the jubilant hails by the newspaper of the
Communist Party. Initially,
whenever the Chinese Communist Party observed the dark side of Western
democracy, it would speak in high spirit and with the force of justice: see,
how dark is the Western society!
Do you not see the goodness of socialism? Although the Communist Party grabbed your property and raped
your wives and daughters, it safeguarded your rights of living. You should be deeply grateful, like the
dogs and horses are thankful to their owners.
However,
nowadays, the common Chinese do not believe that anymore. Although they were lied to for many
years, they still think they are human beings, instead of draft animals. They are not satisfied with their
bitter lives, while watching the Communist Party members enjoy their lives of
luxury and debauchery. So they
insistently ask the Communist Party: why can't we enjoy the equality, freedom
and prosperity you have talked about?
Why do people under your so-called "faked democracy in the
West" enjoy them instead? We
would rather have a true "faked democracy", instead of your false
"true democracy".
The
old Chinese said: laws could not be forced on what the common people
believe. So even with enforced
military police, the Chinese Communist Party is still unable to solve the issue
of ideology with the general public.
So its tune to propagate the dark side of the West has changed. Instead, the Communist Party says: Do
you not see that they are just as corrupt as us? What we have, they have too. So what hope do you have? Just behave yourselves and be a good slave as Karl Marx
said.
Some
friends' criticism is obviously more thoughtful. They have been studying Western democracy for many years
with all their hearts and have observed a lot of problems as well. So they discovered that these problems
are associated with some basic faults of human nature, such as selfishness,
greed, cruelty, and cunning, etc.
As long as these things are in existence, there will be internal fights
and mutual massacres within the human race. To summarize, there will always be unhappiness, a lack of
freedom, and imperfection, which is not the ideal "Christian"
society, and thus just as undesirable as the Communist Party and all the
dictatorial governments. If it is
undesirable, then it is just as well not to have it. Thus, the reached conclusion is to tolerate it regardless
what happens, and live in the imagined world of God. This kind of corollary is exactly the main weapon for the
"United Front Department" of the Chinese Communist Party to
"harmonize" the overseas churches. It is said that it was quite successful to achieve what the
military police could not solve by the shaft of a pen. This itself once again proved the
historic experience of the Communist Party that "a shaft of a pen is more
important than a shaft of gun".
The
prerequisite for the propaganda of the Communist Party that confused people is
the "perfectionism" since the May 4 movement in China. In particular, after the Communist
Party took over the power, the "perfectionism" has almost excluded
all the other factions, with esteem as a primary goal. Because the description of Communism
indeed sounds almost perfect, to touch the not-so-perfect democracy against
Communism is almost like throwing an egg against a rock. So the emotional youths have been
one-sidedly leaning in belief in Communism.
Yet,
reality has cruelly shattered these emotional youths' dreams. Why? This is because the prerequisite of that perfection of a
religion is the perfection of human nature. Yet, in reality, there does not exist the perfection of
human nature. Religion has dealt
with this inconsistency for thousands of years; after all, the prophets
themselves have acknowledged their own failings. So by designing a social system according to the
non-existing perfection, will only result in what the Communist Party got,
which is extreme imperfection.
If
we understand this reason, then we know why the Western democracy is
successful. Although it is only a
limited and relative perfection, even imperfect to the standard of
perfectionism, its limited perfection is operable and realizable. Its prerequisite is built on a base of
reality, instead of a base of vain hopes.
This reality is that human nature is not perfect, but could be guided
toward kindness as well as toward evil.
The social system is exactly the biggest factor which would guide for
the better or to the evil.
When
there is a good social system, then it could restrain the evil while promoting
the goodness. Then we can achieve
a reality with relative and limited perfection. Is it possible to realize a system designed according to
vain hopes? The shared state and religion
during the Middle ages and the Communist countries from the last century have
done experiments to reach that perfection. The result is what we see, without much dispute.
Since
the Western democracy is not perfect, it means there is room for improvement. The more we get to know the Western
democratic countries, the more we will find out that the system is not
perfect. Naturally we want to
improve it and lose patience with that.
So when we are stuffed with the idea of its imperfection, some extreme
people would think it as an extremely evil system with no difference from the
Communist Party. This is the
reason that some friends were obsessed with that idea.
As
they became disappointed, they wanted to improve human nature, so they went
back to the origins of Christianity more than two thousand years ago to when
the new religion was founded. The
experiment in the past two thousand years has proven that human nature could be
improved, but not changed from its root.
There are multiple ways to improve human nature for the better: such as
education, religion, etc. All are
indispensable and effective methods.
Yet, the most effective one is the political system. After all, interests are more important
than ideology. This fact is one of
the deeply rooted traits of humanity, which cannot be changed overnight. Even as scholars still try to find an
even better way to improve human nature, politics and reality do not stand
still.
To
hear Mr. Wei Jingsheng's commentary, please visit:
http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2010/WeiJS100514ChinaWayOut10.mp3
(Written
and recorded on May 14, 2010.
Broadcasted by Radio Free Asia.)
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Wei
Jingsheng Foundation News and Article Release Issue: A546-W319
魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号： A546-W319
Release
Date: May 30, 2010
发布日：2010年5月30日
Topic:
The Way Out for China (Part X) -- Wei Jingsheng
标题： 《中国的出路》之十 -- 魏京生
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《中国的出路》之十
-- 魏京生
在前面的九节里，我们粗略地看到了民主政治的好处；看到了民主政治不同于其他政治体制的一些特点。有些朋友不太满意。说你没有谈到人性，没说民主也有贪污腐败，官员自私，等等。这影响到人们接受民主制，因为你的吹捧不够真实，等等。
这种批评和共产党报纸的兴高采烈、欢呼跳脚不同。共产党早先一看到西方民主的阴暗面，就兴高采烈地、义正词严地、理直气壮地说：看，西方有多黑暗，还是社会主义好吧。尽管共产党抢了你们的财产；奸污了你们的妻女，但共产党保障了你们的生存权。你们应当感恩戴德，就像狗和马那样感谢主人。
可现在老百姓不买账了。他们虽然受骗多年，可还是觉得自己是人不是牲口。他们对共产党花天酒地，而自己却吃糠嚥菜的生活不满意。他们追着共产党问：你们说的平等、自由、富裕我们怎么享受不到呢？怎么西方的假民主倒能享受到呢？我们想要西方那个真的假民主；不想要你们这个假的真民主。
古语说：法不责众。就是共产党加强了武警也解决不了公众意识形态的问题。于是宣传西方阴暗面的口气改了改，从兴高采烈改成了欢呼跳脚：“你看，他们不是和我们一样腐败吗。我们有的他们都有，你们这些穷棒子还有什么指望呢？乖乖的当马克思说的奴隶吧。”
有些朋友的批评显然不是上述的两种。他们倾心研究西方民主多年，看到了它的许多弊病。于是发现这些弊病都和人性的一些基本内容相关，比如自私、贪婪、残忍、狡诈，等等。这些东西只要存在，人类的内斗、自相残杀、、、总之，不幸福、不自由、不完美就永远存在，就不是基督教的理想国，就和共产党以及一切专制政权一样要不得。既然要不得，那还不如不要。于是和共产党得出了一样的结论：还是忍着吧，反正都不怎么样。这种推论，正是共产党的统战部把海外教会和谐掉的主要武器。据说比较成功。武警没办到的事情让笔杆子轻轻巧巧地办到了。这又一次证明了笔杆子比枪杆子重要的历史经验。
共产党的宣传迷惑人的前提，是利用了五四以来的完美主义。特别是中共执政以后，完美主义差不多是罢黜百家、独尊完美了。因为共产主义的描述确实相当完美。拿那个不完美的民主和共产主义一碰，简直就是以卵击石。所以愤青们一边倒地信仰了共产主义。
可是现实很残酷地打碎了愤青们的梦想。为什么呢？因为那个宗教完美的前提是人性的完美；现实中并不存在人性的完美。宗教熏陶了几千年，不也才出了那么几个还不算完美的圣徒吗？按照不存在的完美设计出来的社会制度。实行起来就是共产党这个样子，极端地不完美。
懂得了这个道理，就知道西方民主制为什么成功了。虽然它只是有限的、相对的完美；按完美主义的标准甚至很不完美。但它的有限的完美是可操作，可实现的。它的前提建立在现实的基础上，而不是建立在梦想的基础上。这个现实就是人性并不完美。它可以被引导向善；也可以被引导向恶。社会制度恰恰是对人有最大引导和压制作用的因素。
有了好的社会制度，才可以抑恶扬善。才可以有一个相对完美的、有限完美的现实。按照梦想设计的体制有没有可能实现呢？中世纪的政教合一和上世纪的共产党国家，给我们做了完美的实验。结果大家都看见了，而且已经没有什么可争议的了。
西方式的民主既然是不完美的，就有改善的余地。越是深入了解西方民主国家，就越会发现它太不完美了，就按耐不住想要改善它，满脑子都是它的不完美。极端一点儿的就会觉得那是个万恶的制度，和共产党没什么区别。这就是有些朋友走火入魔的原因。
失望之余，他们又想从改善人性入手，回到了两千多年前创建宗教时代的老路上去了。但是，两千多年来的实验证明，人性是可以改善的，但是不可能根本改变。而改善人性的办法很多，教育、宗教都是不可或缺的有效的办法。但最有效的还是政治体制。毕竟利益比思想更重要。这也是人的劣根性之一，暂时还改变不了。政治、现实不可能停在那儿，等待学者们找出一个改善人性的更好办法。
聆听魏京生先生的相关录音，请访问：
http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2010/WeiJS100514ChinaWayOut10.mp3
（撰写并录音于2010年5月14日。自由亚洲电台播出。）
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