"Professor Wu, it should be that the surplus value of eight people has been exploited!"
One student answered hesitantly.
"Haha, surplus value, I want to ask you, what surplus value do the people who can't even eat have? The problem in our country now is not the problem of surplus value, but also the problem of keeping everyone fed and clothed. These two
If the basic conditions cannot be solved, how can we talk about residual value? That’s bullshit!
Fool's Melon Seed is a typical private enterprise. Its vitality is far stronger than that of a grocery store, but it was arrested for employing eight workers...
You are students, I won’t talk about you, but now many senior officials can’t understand this matter, have all kinds of doubts about reform and opening up, and even want to obstruct it. They are idiots and have no understanding of economic laws. If they continue to do this
, that is the sinner of the country!"
The more Wu He talked, the more excited he became, and in the end he almost cursed.
The people sitting below were all dumbfounded. How dare this Professor Wu scold the top leaders of the country? Isn't this counter-revolutionary? The whole crackdown is still going on. What if he is arrested?
I really didn’t expect that Professor Wu, who is over 50 years old, still has such a hot temper. He is completely different from the gentle and elegant appearance of later generations. It seems that he was also an angry youth when he was young!
Wu He is a well-known economist in the country. The country's top officials always ask for his opinions when making decisions, so he is very clear about the opinions and opinions of the country's top officials.
What Wu He said is indeed true. Even after 20 or 30 years, the world has given the highest praise to the great achievements of the country's reform and opening up. However, in the early days of reform and opening up, many people in the country's top leadership had little regard for reform and opening up.
We maintain a vigilant attitude, not absolute support. The most important point is the big debate on whether there is exploitation in the private economy.
In the early days of reform and opening up, there were self-employed businesses. The so-called self-employed businesses were all small workshops based on family units. They bought some tofu and some steamed buns. For example, the breakfast shops that set up stalls outside in the morning in the capital are all called self-employed businesses. The country is very strict about this.
I support it, but as the scale of self-employed businesses grows larger and larger, it is inevitable to hire workers. This creates a problem. What is the problem? It is the question of how many people to hire.
Those who employ less than seven people are still called self-employed, while those who employ more than eight people are considered private owners, which is commonly known as "seven up and eight down". However, the country still has huge controversy over private owners.
Where does this "seven ups and eight downs" come from? It comes from the golden rule of socialism "Das Kapital". This book mentions that once a private employer employs more than eight people, it will inevitably
will start to carry out exploitation and actually embark on the road of capitalism. For a country led by the proletariat, the four words of capitalism are undoubtedly as ferocious as a scourge and no one dares to touch it.
At the beginning of 1983, the state also issued a notice, which pointed out: "Rural individual industrial and commercial households and experts in the planting and breeding industry, please help and lead apprentices, please refer to the "Several Policy Provisions on Urban Non-Agricultural Individual Economy" for implementation
, it is not appropriate to encourage hiring more helpers than the above regulations, and do not
Publicize publicity, and do not rush to ban it, but should take advantage of the situation and develop it into different forms of cooperative economy. Rural individual businesses and various service industries, which are flexible in operation and convenient for the masses, should be developed appropriately and given necessary support. Individual farmers
or partners conducting long-distance trafficking should also be allowed.
Precisely because of this high-voltage line blocking "seven up and eight down", many private owners across the country dare not hire more than eight workers. Of course, some smart southerners can avoid this line, that is, contract a company with
A collective enterprise is no longer a private enterprise.
Under the protection of their collective nature, they can hire more workers, but in doing so, property rights issues have hidden dangers. Once the company becomes bigger, conflicts will arise between the collective and the individual, and then there will be a battle.
As a result, many companies that were originally very profitable ended up going bankrupt.
The man named Nian Changjiang mentioned by Wu He is also a man of great influence. He is not famous now, but according to time, in eight or five years, his reputation as a fool will spread throughout the country. Not because
He was so courageous that the country's supreme leader, Deng Lao, mentioned his name during a meeting. This made him famous, and even the brand of "Foolish Melon Seeds" spread throughout the country, but that was two years later.
As for the matter, this year, he should be living in prison.
In Liu Lang's view, the transformation of the economic system in the early stage of reform and opening up was the highlight, but the most important thing was the change in ideology. In the past few decades, people have been exposed to the idea of class struggle, and they have no idea that capitalism is the enemy.
It is deeply rooted. As long as there is capitalism, there will be exploitation, and wherever there is exploitation, there will be resistance.
Is capitalism synonymous with exploitation?
Of course Liu Lang disagrees, so where does the wealth created by capitalism come from?
More than thirty years later, a book called "Small Island Economics" was published. This book has been on the top of the world's bestseller list for dozens of weeks in a row and enjoys a high reputation around the world.
It was absolutely unimaginable before that an economic book could sell so well. The fundamental reason is that this book is not a preaching type. The content is to tell everyone the simplest economic theory in the form of storytelling, that is, seven
An eight-year-old child can understand it, so this book has surpassed the traditional obscure and difficult-to-understand model of economic books and achieved great success. Liu Lang felt that it was necessary to write this book so that everyone can read it.
Change your thinking.
Wu He did not teach the content in the textbook in this class, but only talked about the current economic situation. His only purpose was to "brainwash" these students so that they could truly understand the benefits of the private economy, and at the same time tell them that the current economic situation
There is only one way for the country to go, and planned economy is no longer needed. Wu He’s class has given many students insights. They are likely to become the country’s economists in the future, as long as they have the seeds of cultivation in their minds.
The concept of "market economy is good" may be able to contribute to the country's economic development in the future.
Of course, in Liu Lang's view, Wu He's economic theory of the country has not yet been fully formed. The so-called complete private economy, that is, the market economy, does not actually exist around the world. Isn't there that saying "capital"
"ism also has plans, and socialism also has markets." Even in the era of very high marketization more than thirty years later, there are still many large state-owned enterprises in the country, and there is still a planned economy within the state-owned enterprises. Of course, the market economy is dominant
Yes, there is no doubt about this.
The class ended with Wu He quoting scriptures. It must be said that his eloquence was quite outstanding. The students were fascinated and gave him warm applause.