The US-Soviet hegemony seems to be a long-standing and widely discussed topic, aside from the heavy sub-topics of the institutional disadvantages of totalitarianism and the large and small disasters it has caused - in fact, after the dust settles and the archives are lifted, it is the United States. The all-round uproar of the business model and the silent reflection of socialism. But at the beginning of the US-Soviet competition, why were there so many supporters or sympathizers of communism in the capitalist camp? So that the American McCarthyism will carry out political persecution in the name of anti-communism? Could it be that all the sympathizers are black widows, spies sent by the CPSU to the U.S. imperialists? In "Long Live Caesar", the communist "kidnapping" in the seaside villa, drinking afternoon tea and discussing the issue of capitalist exploitation and alienation, is very similar to the sociologists who used to work in Vienna and Paris salons? None of them are spies!
The large number of European elites who took refuge in the United States during World War II was one of the important factors in the post-war rise of the United States. The experimentalism and rationalism represented by these financiers/scientists/sociologists represented the connotation of the European elites of the European Continent, and the liberalism that was the cornerstone of the founding of the United States. , Democracy, although not contradictory, but there are many differences. To put it simply, some of these elites do not have so many capitalist aspirations to maximize surplus value, and they are "people who are out of vulgar taste." They deduced inaccurate but far-sighted modernization construction plans in the laboratory, in the study, and in the salon, pursuing the end of history; they designed a system to eliminate human greed like a groundwater system, and ushered in a new human being society. They claim to represent the future, and they come from the future.
This is why the image of the communist elite has a heroic tinge, they are ambitious, like white lotus flowers among the bourgeoisie in pursuit of material comfort, and sonorous and powerful in the midst of the hype. When the communist screenwriters sent Xiao Xianrou star to defect to the Soviet Union on a submarine, Xiao Xianrou was tall and straight, and his eyes were firm. —In "Bridge of Spies", in contrast to the shots of the court trial between the Soviet Union and the United States, the people's court is solemn and solemn, and the red flags are covered with the shots like waterfalls, representing the high enthusiasm and even the excitement of modernization. In the eyes of these idealistic people, their pursuits are completely different from the vulgar taste of capitalist hibiscus indulging in sensuality.
And these elites' shared dreams in the United States are what the mainstream capitalist society is most afraid of. After all, it's not terrible to attract the low-level diaosi. What's terrible is that the dazzling vision of socialism has attracted a group of social elites "out of vulgar taste". The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union is a competition for modernization. The modernization pursued by these experimental elites with no worries about food and clothing is not a refrigerator and a color TV car in every household, but the space station plan in Kubrick's "A Space Odyssey"; these rationalist elites are not alone. Motivated by self-interest, they are mad scientists who sacrifice surplus value to achieve justice. In other words, the core incentives of capitalism do not work for them.
Mainstream economics makes human self-interest a theoretical cornerstone, not because it is correct and moral, but because it is predictable. An altruistic motive, a sacrificial claim, how long can you expect it to stay on track?
This is exactly the problem. Gao Bing Gao pursues the elites to achieve justice, but they are only a small group. Most people's pursuit is the self-interest of their wives and children, and the fat and water will not flow to outsiders. To make matters worse, the elite thinks they have composed - as Milan Kundera quotes - an idyll for all. Rationalism tells them that killing one person to save a hundred people is benevolence and righteousness, and that some dissonant notes can be sacrificed for the main theme of everyone. To make matters worse, the madrigal for all has given too much power to people who are out of vulgar taste, not subject to checks and balances, and these elites have also been alienated, they are not as white lotus as they originally thought, they even appeared. Internal cleaning, everyone knows what happened later.
I was wondering, what happened to the people in the movie? The Communist screenwriter was arrested, and after serving his sentence, he could only "can't stand the corruption of your bourgeoisie, and you have to build capitalism with you". What about the little fresh meat star who defected to the Soviet Union? His alienation or the annihilation of his future dreams, which one will happen first?
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