Today I’m going to talk about a movie, a German movie, "Goodbye, Lenin"
. There are only purely private affairs in the world, not purely political events. In "Goodbye, Lenin," an East German mother who was devout to communism fainted after witnessing her son being arrested during a parade. The unconsciousness lasted for 8 months, and when she woke up, East Germany had undergone earth-shaking changes.
The Berlin Wall fell, and the power of capital swarmed into East Berlin like snowflakes rising from the arms of beer. The mother's daughter, Ariane, became an employee of the RuRGER king car fast-food restaurant, her class enemy, providing a KFC-like Khan Fort. The Adolf Hennecke TV Repair Cooperative, where the mother's son Alex (the male lead) belongs, went bankrupt. Alex was laid off and went to a limited liability company that installed TV antennas. And my mother’s neighbourhoods were laid off one after another. East Berlin was graffiti by the capital, and communism was shaken on the earth in 1989. The United Socialist Party fell (equivalent to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), the German Democratic Republic became history, and the troubled underground music flooded East Berlin in the name of liberal democracy. And Ariane, mother's daughter, found a West German boyfriend who was sloppy. Perhaps communism is established by the rebellion and sense of justice of young people, and it is also the sense of rebellion and justice that destroys it in the end.
In short, when my mother awoke, East Germany had fallen.
The doctor told Alex that his mother could not be stimulated. Alex knew that the biggest stimulus at the moment was to let her know that East Germany was over. In the words of Alex, "Mom married our socialist country". (She is probably equivalent to a representative of the National People's Congress). Alex made a ridiculous decision-hide it. He won't let her know what happened in Berlin until his mother recovers. From then on the story is full of black humor.
Spreewald brand canned cucumber
Spreewald brand canned cucumber may ditch the memories of many East German elderly people. Perhaps Spreewald is the only factory in East Germany that produces canned cucumbers, because why build two factories that produce the same products? Only deputies to the people's congress with problems in their heads would suggest that.
Alex's mother wanted to eat this brand of canned cucumbers, which stumped Alex. The socialist department store was closed, and there was only one hard socialist frozen chicken left in it. Instead, the capitalist Supermarket rose to the ground. There was no spreewald cucumber that Alex's mother wanted to eat in the Supermarket. It was a good fortune of the planned economy. Only canned cucumbers from the Netherlands are on the shelves. Seeing that, the great prediction of globalization in the "Communist Manifesto" has been realized on the shelves in front of Alex. Today, 20 years later, the canned cucumbers on this shelf in East Berlin may come from China-a society with Chinese characteristics. Doctrine cucumber.
Poor Alex couldn't buy spree wald cucumbers. Fortunately, he found an empty bottle of spreewald cucumbers in the trash can downstairs. Pour the Dutch cucumbers into this bottle, and he could give it to his mother.
My mother finally ate the spreewald cucumber, but she made a new request. She wanted to watch TV. Alex knew that West German TV would show some programs such as beautiful women squeezing cream onto their big breasts and rubbing them. My mother will ask, is this socialist big breasts? Fortunately, Alex has a friend who wants to be a director. The friend pretends to be a news anchor, so that his mother can always know the great construction of East Germany's socialism.
But paper can’t contain fire. Capital’s power made East Berlin streets full of foreign cars. Alex drove Japanese Suzuki’s car. Haha, in the 1980s, it was Japanese capital that destroyed cities all over the world. During the game, when a large number of West Germans poured into East Germany, housing prices here were much lower.
Finally one day, a huge advertising banner was dragged on the building opposite to my mother's room, with the words cocacola written on it. This is the great successor of capitalism and the most valuable brand in the world. It seems that the city was occupied by capital, and the victory started from street fighting.
We all wear red scarves.
"Our hometown is not only a city, but also a village. Our hometown and forests are also full of trees. Our hometown is the grass on the greenery."
The East German kid wearing a red scarf was in front of his mother Alex. Singing, this is the happiest time for the NPC deputies. The children continued to sing: "The crops in the fields, the birds in the sky, the animals in the land...".
I was surprised that children in East Germany also wear red scarves, and they come in blue and red. As far as I know, children from North Korea also wear it, Vietnam and Cuba are so hot, and wear it, I wonder, our socialist children are tired of living! I remember when I was fighting when I was young, I took the red scarf out of my pocket. It could be used by people. It was very painful, second only to the key chain.
Lenin, why can't we have a little personal sorrow? Democracy is based on the private interests of the vast majority of individuals. Am I wrong? Lenin. When personal interests conflict with the interests of the country, if the individual always gives way to the country, then no one can represent the country, and neither can the people. The country becomes a machine that not only enslaves the people, but also enslaves the ruler. itself.
Why are every socialist country so similar, and the details are so similar. They are all keen on rockets to the sky. Sports strength and economic strength are always unmatched. Leaders always exist as heroes. Information blockades and frequent or continuous cleanings are called comrades. The national emblem likes to use rice and wheat. , Well, too much.
If a decision is made, not through a selfish and greedy person to play on his own, but a person with noble character to judge by himself, then there is only one paper between goodwill and cruelty. For example, if only the rich can afford golf, and the poor start to hate the rich, then the government simply makes golf illegal, so that it is convenient and efficient to solve the problem of social harmony. But the result of conniving the government in this way is nothing more than the expansion of national power. When the government wants to point out that playing table tennis is illegal, there is nothing you and I can do.
In the past, we attributed the disharmony between most people to class contradictions. After 1955, we in China cut off all the disgusting classes, but we were surprised to find that the disharmony has not disappeared, and even intensified, which is different from what is written in the book!
At this time, we are not reflecting: "Oh, it turns out that most of the disharmony is not caused by class contradictions." Rather, we suspect that "the bourgeoisie has not been cleansed, they are hidden among the workers and peasants." So there are three antis and five antis. Monsters and monsters.
Democracy is always wordy. The literal translation of the US Senate is home for the elderly. A group of people with different interests argued with each other, and the decision was delayed. So our elites began to reason that lack of efficiency is caused by disputes, which are due to different interests, and the roots of different interests are different classes. Therefore, in order to improve efficiency, everyone must be transformed into a class. This is indeed what we did. Intellectuals were also included in the working class. After the communalization of peasants, wouldn’t they also be working class?
Yes, we have become a class, a happy family, but are our interests aligned? No! Has the argument gone? No! The efficiency has improved. No country has China built the atomic bomb as fast as it can. Chairman Mao gave an order to smelt steel by the whole people. Let me ask which country has China with high efficiency.
But let us not forget that socialism is a yearning for social fairness. The Big Brother Soviet Union has turned her into a tool for improving efficiency. Other socialist countries have followed suit, and socialism has since gone astray. In fact, no economist can explain why the socialist mode of production can liberate the productive forces, including Marx himself. He only explained it from a philosophical perspective, but what I want to see is concrete things, but he is saying , Why do people get old? Answer, quantitative changes cause qualitative changes; how did Watt invent the steam engine? Answer, look at the essence through the phenomenon. Facts tell us that highly abstract things are often wrong or nonsense.
The fact is that it is not a proper mode of production that brings high growth to the Soviet Union, but a dictatorship, a government with the same power as God. With a powerful central government, what the Soviet Union can do is, in the name of the country, to still export food in exchange for capital during the Great Famine. It is to make the working class hungry and build a steel plant with the money saved. Therefore, the Western countries in the Great Depression learned Keynesianism from the Soviet Union, not the most essential thing of communism, the ultimate freedom of mankind. Centralization of state power is only one of the means to achieve it, and now he has become the warm home of the bureaucracy.
Then you would say, yes, isn't this just the virtue of communism? high efficiency. I want to tell you that this has nothing to do with communism. The same thing happened in Germany and Japan. What caused high economic growth was the centralization of government power and low human rights. Communism just rationalized the centralization of power. The only difference between the Soviet Union and Japan and Germany is that it can make the people feel that they are at a loss for a common and empty ideal. Let me tell you, at this time, the country we love is no longer owned by the people or the government. It has changed. Become a living thing, an evil living thing. The state drags us into unnecessary wars, the state creates unnecessary demand, and then we turn our energy and resources into commodities that meet this demand. For example, the school bought dozens of meters from profiteers during the evaluation of Cha Cha teaching. Banners, red carpet. In a country under bureaucratic governance, we see such a scene. Everyone seems to be busy, performing their own duties, but half of the things they produce meet the derived needs. To make it clear, it is those who cope with it. The needs of superiors, and those that shouldn't exist, such as body armor, or the coils used to go to Beijing to report to the imperial court, these coils feed the train driver, the inn staff, and the reporters of the Northern Weekend. So I said that when the unemployment problem arises, encourage public money to eat and drink, and conduct cross-evaluation everywhere. The demand they drive up is limitless.
On the eve of the Cultural Revolution, people seem to be fairer than before, but between people and the government is unfair. The government has too much power. This is also one of the root causes of Mao Zedong's launch of the Cultural Revolution. The power of the government was returned to the people. Yes, it was indeed returned to the people. The people could even rush into the provincial government to extract criticism from the governor. How can the American people who claim to be democratic have power in China? Is it big? However, without the protection of the government, the unfairness between people has reappeared, and it is far worse than before the liberation. Everyone lives in panic, especially people from bad backgrounds.
When power is handed over to the government, there will be unfairness between the people and the government, and when power is returned to the people, there will be unfairness between people. This is the vicious circle of state governance.
Mourn the giant, mourn the giant
When Alex joined the neighbourhood to conceal her mother, her sister hated Alex's behavior. She said: "We are in a socialist elderly club." The old neighbor Ganske is obviously the one who complained the most. The bankruptcy of state-owned enterprises made him unemployed at retirement age. He has good reasons to think that socialism is better than capitalism. And mother's colleague, the old professor became an alcoholic. In fact, the unemployment rate in East Germany is still above double digits until now.
But we must see that it is not a "handful of" politicians who choose capitalism, but the ordinary people of East Germany. Similarly, it is not "bourgeois liberalization" that overthrows socialism, but the conscience of the people of East Germany, the natural conscience of mankind. This kind of conscience is sympathy for the suffering of others, and is the unremitting pursuit of human happiness. As the "Communist Manifesto" says, "the working class has no national boundaries" and this kind of conscience also has no national boundaries. He is destined to transcend all "isms" and become the foundation of national ethics.
In fact, they did not choose capitalism, they just chose happiness under capitalism. How many will care about politics? People care about their own lives. Only those who claim to be elites will claim to care about "human beings." These elites include Pol Potter, Hitler, Fan Zhongyan, Stalin, and Zhu Yuanzhang. . . . . . If all the people in the world become people who "worry and worry about the world first, and enjoy the world afterwards", there will be a massacre in this world next month. Believe it or not.
If you want to ask the people why they chose capitalism, it is not that the people rigorously deduce that capitalism is better than socialism. Just because, on this side of the wall, we can download your favorite song from the website for 99 cents, while on the side of the wall, we can only watch women with wigs jumping white-haired girls year after year; On this side, we can eat delicacies from all over the world and watch the highest A film, while on the side of the wall, we can only eat spreewald cucumbers and watch the morning news, midday news and evening news.
The great changes are undoubtedly painful for the elderly. Adam Smith told us that when everyone benefits from each other, the total benefits of society will increase, and order will naturally form, rather than the "chaotic state" that Engels called. This order is the market. The role of the government is to repair this inaccurate and inoperable order. And I want to say that the government originated from the management of public affairs (just as the owner committee originated from the confrontation with the property company), but the government is composed of people, and people are greedy. Who can guarantee that this "owners committee" will degenerate into rule Who? The answer is the market. The influence of capitalists and financiers on government behavior (collusion between officials and businessmen called by angry youth) is not necessarily a bad thing in my opinion, because it brings about checks and balances of power. Of course, the market alone is not enough, but it is the most important.
However, the old people in East Germany did not have the opportunity to come into contact with this kind of "criticism." In Alex's words, they married themselves to the country one after another. When GDR collapsed, they became widows.
The climax of the film is when the statue of Lenin from the helicopter fell through the streets and finally met Alex's mother head-on.
Alex's mother sneaked out of the house. She looked at Lenin under the helicopter, or Lenin was looking at her. Bolshevik Lenin held a book in one hand and made an inviting gesture with the other. He seemed to be saying, "Child, let me go." Or he was saying, "Now only China is socialism. Let's go there. How do others eliminate the divide between the rich and the poor." But he is most likely saying, "Is the rope used to hang me and the rope used to hang Saddam both made in the Yangtze River Delta in China?"
Alex's mother finally Still dead, Alex put his mother's ashes in a small rocket, let it fly into the sky, and bloom into a firework.
The huge crimson empire stretches from the Laijun River in East Germany to the Vladivostok in the Pacific Ocean, from Siberia in the Arctic Ocean to the red high cotton at the equator. Far as the Caribbean, snort as Mongolia, and North Korea. From the Muslim Tatar homeland to the Confucian East Asian countries, from the Orthodox Kiev Warsaw to the sugar cane fields in Cuba. The red empire stretches forever, easily crushing the cultural ethics that have accumulated for thousands of years, and obliterating the powerful social forces like religion. So far, only communism has this power.
However, this red behemoth completely disintegrated in 1990. You can say that the blood of the martyrs was in vain. You can say that an experiment that condensed all the fanatic desires in human history ended in failure. But what I want to say is that the human spirit of praising the father of the day is worth it. Saint Zan, history will never forget communism. I have come, I have seen it, and I have conquered. Communism is the limit that human spiritual power can reach so far.
Finally, let's finish with Alex's words.
This country, the country that my mother had left forever, she believed in all her life, and
will never change until death. This country has never existed in reality.
This country can only be remembered when I remember my mother.
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