I smiled and said: "There is no point in discussing this issue. If we continue to discuss it, I will be really reactionary."
In fact, the so-called "party culture" in the final analysis means "the party should decide everything." Such a culture is certainly conducive to the stability of the regime, but it will inevitably cause huge impact and damage to traditional culture, because when everything is determined by the needs of the party culture,
When standards are measured, much of our traditional culture will disappear.
And this is indeed the case now. Our traditional culture is gradually disappearing, and the Chinese people have no faith. Now that our country has opened, the brainwashing party cultural education can no longer work at all, which has caused people's faith to become even more confused.
, so people can only go back to their most primitive desires, which is why people have such a fanatical worship of money as they do today.
The core of "party culture" is actually "feudal". The feudal nature of "party culture" can be seen everywhere, which isolates the party's leaders from lower-level officials, and isolates the party from society. First of all, it is reflected as a feudal hierarchy
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"Party culture" is expressed in the form of "slave culture". Superior leaders regard subordinates as "slaves" and pass them down level by level. China's "party culture" is not reflected in the bureaucracy of other countries.
The culture of respecting authority is reflected in the "slave culture" of fearing power and flattering power. Of course, this itself is also a part of traditional Chinese culture. Chinese people only have a tradition of fearing or flattering power, and have never had a tradition of respecting authority.
"Slave culture" has reached its peak. The only thing subordinates want to do is to please their superiors, so they inevitably tell lies. What is the result? Some people have pointed out that telling the truth within the party has become the most difficult thing in the world.
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Of course, the speech here is not limited to the ordinary conversations in the process of communication, but is also reflected in the speeches of various leaders within the party, communiqués, policies and other documents that need to be expressed in words. The documents of "Party Eight-Party Writing"
, can only be understood but cannot be expressed in words. Even experts and scholars can only interpret the information that needs to be conveyed between the lines.
At the social level, no one can understand these documents. When the subordinates cannot understand the documents, they have to use other ways to figure out the intentions of their superiors. When the people cannot understand the documents of the ruling party, they have to use other ways to figure out the intentions of the ruling party.
, communication between the relevant parties is interrupted, and there is an invisible "city wall" between them.
Manifested in actual policy behavior, whether it is decision-making or policy implementation, this culture is manifested in that it is only "only for the top" and not "only for the bottom."
From the perspective of rulers or superiors, they certainly hope that subordinates can achieve a balance between the superiors’ policy will and social needs based on the actual situation, so that on the one hand, they can obtain policy information that reflects reality from subordinates, and on the other hand, they can make the policy
can be executed.
However, in a "top only" culture, subordinates will not consider the actual situation and social needs. Many policies can neither reflect the actual situation nor be implemented. If they are to be enforced, it will inevitably deepen the contradiction between the system and society.
, thus going against the original will of the rulers and superiors. Another serious consequence of the "superior" culture is the "elite elimination", that is, those cadres who have independent thinking and can do things are regarded as aliens and cannot be eliminated by their superiors and superiors.
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Related to this is the "party culture" known as the "secretary gang culture". Under any system, secretaries are very important. But China's secretaries have their own feudal characteristics, which are somewhat similar to the "house slaves" of the feudal era.
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For many leaders, everything can be lacking, but secretaries are indispensable. Whether it is their own work, external relationships, or even family relationships, they all need secretaries. With such a high degree of dependence on secretaries, secretaries are simply the "gateway" for some leaders to the outside world.
"Must pass through". In other words, the secretary is the leader's "castle". In this sense, the secretary effectively isolates the leader from the real world.
Furthermore, the secretary is also the "brain" of the leader. Many leaders are obsessed with trivial matters all day long and have neither interest nor time to think about problems, especially big problems, so they need secretaries to be their "brains" and to serve them.
Think about the leadership and prepare all the speech materials for the leader. In this sense, it is no wonder that some people say that the secretary is the leader's "leader". On many occasions, the quality of the secretary determines the success or failure of a leader.
More importantly, the "party culture" that can be fatal to the survival and development of the party is the unregulated power competition within the party. In the feudal era, there was no political competition because the royal power was highly monopolistic and belonged to the emperor himself or
The emperor's family. However, there was disguised competition under the emperor. Competition occurred among members of the emperor's family and among bureaucrats at all levels. In the old days, there was a saying of "cronies". "Cronies" were tools of political competition. Because royal power was a monopoly
, in most cases, the emperor has the legitimacy and the ability to restrict or even eliminate "crony" politics.
Times are different now. Whether it is the transfer of power at the top or the general "change" or "generation change" of leaders, power is relatively dispersed. Especially after strongman politics, political competition is inevitable.
However, there are no clear rules for competition. The situation is often that the power struggle between the parties often reaches a fever pitch. At the local level, fierce political struggles often lead to attacks between party cadres, using real swords and guns, and even "
Assassination".
Similarly, "clique culture" of one kind or another has become popular, and "mountainism", "cliques" and "gangs" among cadres have become more and more popular. Competition between gangs often leads to different forms of "fire fights" between them.
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Once this method rises to the central level, it can cause serious damage to the party as a whole. For ordinary people in society, they cannot enjoy any of the benefits of this method of political competition, but they have to bear its negative consequences.
Consequences, even bad consequences. In traditional royal societies, palace struggles can hurt innocent people in society. The existence of the modern version of this phenomenon cannot be denied.
All these combined reflect the lack of humanitarianism within the party. Neither the vertical superior-subordinate relationship nor the horizontal political competition can reflect any humanitarian spirit. "Slave culture" means that subordinates are not treated as human beings;
The political competition of "the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit" will inevitably manifest itself in the cruel and ruthless nature of political struggle.
Once "party culture" extends to society, it will create antagonism between the ruling party and its government and society and the people. The "party culture" mentioned here is not the party's culture in the general sense, but the sole ruling party's culture.
"Party culture" means the internal culture of the rulers. This internal culture of the rulers will inevitably affect the relationship between the rulers and the ruled.
The first is the impact of "inhumanism" within the party on society. If the ruling party does not have humanism within the party, it will naturally be difficult to implement humanitarianism towards society and the people.
The core of traditional Chinese philosophy is humanism. But Chinese humanism is fundamentally different from Western humanism. Chinese humanism, no matter which version it is, begs officials to treat ordinary people as human beings.
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In some classic Confucian quotations, such as "Water can carry a boat, it can also overturn it", and "The people are the most valuable, the country is second, the king is the least important", etc. The main subject in them is still the royal power, which means that the royal power is for its own benefit.
Interests must be treated kindly to the common people. This is because Confucianism often regards the monarch and his own group as the embodiment of morality and is superior to the common people. The monarch and scholar-bureaucrats are not bound by the law, but can stand above the law.
Therefore, China has never been able to produce a legal culture in which everyone is equal before the law. At best, it can only have a legal culture that governs the country through laws. The people will always be an object to be controlled. In such a culture, humanitarianism is always just an ideal.
And it cannot become a reality.
Western humanism is to design political and social systems based on human nature. Because everyone is evil by nature, laws are needed to restrain everyone, both the rulers and the ruled. Everyone is before the law
Equality, this is the spirit of the modern rule of law.
The feudal "slave culture" within the party extends to society, manifested in the fact that officials often think of themselves as the people's masters or "blue sky masters" and must make decisions for the people. In fact, they regard the people as "slaves." Within the party,
Superiors treat subordinates as "minions". When they reach the lowest rung of the power ladder, grassroots cadres cannot find "minions" within the party, so they have no choice but to treat ordinary people as "minions." The phenomenon of taking out their anger and bullying the people often develops into "officials"
The degree of "forcing people to rebel". The daily conflicts in Chinese society between officials and the society and the people are not only due to material interests, but also a direct reflection of the officials' contempt for the people.
Under the influence of such "party culture", many members are extremely selfish not only in various relationships within the party, but also in the relationship between the party and its government and society and the people. Party members cannot transcend their own narrow interests.
Interests, the ruling party cannot transcend its own narrow interests. Because the CCP is the only ruling party, when party members and the ruling party as a whole cannot transcend their selfish interests, they will inevitably be isolated from society and the people.
The problem is that today's society is, after all, very different from the feudal era. The people and the entire society have undergone tremendous changes. In traditional society, both the feudal power "hierarchy" and the "slave culture" have ideologies.
Legality; that is to say, this culture is accepted by society and the common people.
However, today, when the people and society themselves do not think of themselves as "slaves", and when they have a high degree of recognition of political and social equality, if party and government officials continue to embrace the feudal "party culture", they will harm their relationship with the people, and
Conflicts between societies will become inevitable.
By now, many people have realized that culture is a kind of soft power. A positive "party culture" helps the party's survival and development, but a negative "party culture" accelerates the party's decline.
decay.
China's feudal "party culture" undoubtedly belongs to the latter. If allowed to continue and develop, this "party culture" will eventually ruin the fate of the ruling party. There is no doubt that only by vigorously transforming the "party culture" of the ruling party
"Defeudalization and building a "party culture" based on the rule of law where everyone is equal is the only way for the ruling party to survive and develop. (To be continued)