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Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A927-O256
中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A927-O256
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Date: March 19, 2016
发布日：2016年3月19日
Topic:
Notice of Cultural Revolution Seminar on May 13 and 14, 2016
标题：关于2016年5月13日与14日召开文化大革命研讨会的通知
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Notice
of Cultural Revolution Seminar on May 13 and 14, 2016
On
May 13th (Friday) and 14th (Saturday), the Overseas Chinese Democracy Coalition
and the Wei Jingsheng Foundation are planning to hold a seminar on "The
50th Anniversary of the Cultural Revolution" that is marked on May
16. We are planning to invite all
friends to join us, to tell us their own experience and perspective of this
subject. For those who could join
us in person, please contact the Wei Jingsheng Foundation at
HCP@WeiJingSheng.org and register, and include your biographical and contact
information for ratification. For
those friends who cannot join us in person, you may send your essay to us for it
to be circulated as a document during the seminar and/or to be published later.
The
organizers of the seminar think:
The
Cultural Revolution is not only a continuation of the May Fourth Movement, but
also the continuation of the learning of modern Western "Complete
Westernization" thinking in China.
In the cultural and political systems, most Chinese people took an
attitude of quick success and immediate benefit; while the intelligentsia took
an irresponsible attitude, by guiding the Chinese with self-righteousness and
little knowledge. With the
intervention from Japan and the former Soviet Union, it resulted in unnecessary
twists and turns in nearly a hundred years of history in China.
Power
struggles are the sub-themes of the Cultural Revolution. The biggest theme of the Cultural Revolution
was the implementation of the most radical communist ideal from the West. The "Destruction of the Four
Olds" destroyed the traditional Chinese culture and was a continuation of
the "Complete Westernization" thought. "Class Struggle" was a tool that matured in the
Soviet authoritarian rule.
Establishing a serf-like structure of industrial and agricultural
production system was a reactionary measure against the traditional market
economy and freedmen society in China.
When Mao Zedong eventually won the supreme religious authority, it also
proved the failure of Communism in China -- unless he could always make people
willingly give up spiritual freedom and accept impoverishment in their material
life.
Since
the 1980s, the repression of the Deng Xiaoping clique resulted a lack of
thorough and careful reflection of the Cultural Revolution. In order to maintain its dictatorial
and authoritarian system, the Communist regime in China does not allow people
to seriously reflect on the reasons of this evil generating history, so now
people are worried about another Cultural Revolution by the Chinese Communist
regime. The purpose of this
seminar is to let more people understand the evil reasons of the Cultural
Revolution, and to rally together to prevent the occurrence of a second
Cultural Revolution.
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中文版
Overseas
Chinese Democracy Coalition News and Article Release Issue Number: A927-O256
中国民主运动海外联席会议新闻与文章发布号：A927-O256
Release
Date: March 19, 2016
发布日：2016年3月19日
Topic:
Notice of Cultural Revolution Seminar on May 13 and 14, 2016
标题：关于2016年5月13日与14日召开文化大革命研讨会的通知
Original
Language Version: Chinese (Chinese version at the end)
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关于2016年5月13日与14日召开文化大革命研讨会的通知
中国民主运动海外联席会议和魏京生基金会，计画在2016年5月13日（星期五）与14日（星期六）召开以5.16为标志的“文革五十周年研讨会”，邀请各路朋友阐述自己的经历和观点。有条件到会的朋友，请与魏京生基金会联络（HCP@WeiJingSheng.org）并报名，并附上简历和联系方法，以备批准。因各种条件无法亲自到会的朋友，也可将论文寄给魏京生基金会，作为研讨会传阅文件，并备选为之后的出版物。
研讨会组织者认为：
文革是五四运动的延续，同时也延续了近代学习西方运动“全盘西化”的思想。在文化和政治制度方面，大部分中国人采取了急功近利的态度；而知识阶层采取了不负责任的态度，用一知半解和自以为是引导人民。再加上日本和苏联的干预，造成了近百年的曲折。
权力斗争是文革的副主题；实行西方最激进的理想共产主义，是文革的最大主题。毁灭中国传统文化的破四旧，是全盘西化思想的延续。阶级斗争，是成熟于苏联的集权统治的工具。建立农奴式的工农业生产结构，是对中国传统市场经济和自由民社会的反动措施。而毛泽东最终获得了至高无上的神权，也证明了共产主义在中国的失败--除非他能永远让人民心甘情愿地陷入精神上的不自由和物质上的贫困。
自一九八十年代以来，在邓小平集团的压制下，对文化大革命没有一个彻底和认真的反省。共产党为了维护他们的独裁专制体制，不允许人们认真反思这段历史罪恶产生的原因，
以至于现在人们担心中共政权将会再一次走向文革。本次研讨会的目的就是让更多的人了解文革之所以造成罪恶的原因，群起阻止二次文革的发生。
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