唐好色
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作者：唐好色 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
最近在讀Eric Hoffer 的 [The true believer]. 此書艾森豪總統曾經推薦. 這本書有中譯本, 名為[狂熱分子]
http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/china/chinafile.php?item=CN10773926
此書內容深刻, 妙語如珠, 精闢簡潔. 在此先引用一段:
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. The goals are concrete and immediate. Every meal is a fulfillment; to go to sleep on a full stomach is a triumph; and every windfall a miracle. What need could they have for "an inspiring super individual goal which would give meaning and dignity to their lives?" They are immune to the appeal of a mass movement. Angelica Balabanoff describes the effect of abject poverty on the revolutionary ardor of famous radicals who flocked to Moscow in the early days of the Bolshevik revolution." Here I saw men and women who had lived all their lives for ideas, who had voluntarily renounced material advantages, liberty, happiness, and family affection for the realization of their ideals--completely absorbed by the problem of hunger and cold."
Where people toil from sunrise to sunset for a bare living, they nurse no grievances and dream no dreams. One of the reasons for the unrebelliousness of the masses in China is the inordinate effort required there to scrape together the means of the scantiest subsistence. The intensified struggle for existence "is a static rather than a dynamic influence."
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Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became." In both France and Russia the land-hungry peasants owned almost exactly one-third of the agricultural land at the outbreak of revolution, and most of that land was acquired during the generation or two preceding the revolution. It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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改革不但艱難, 而且危險. 這大概就是老毛當年堅持共慘的原因之一. 不過這也正是老毛糟糕的地方. 就算是愚民暴民, 真正的政治家也要想辦法為他們謀福利, 把他們改造成中產階級, 而不是為了自己統治的穩定而讓他們永遠生存於赤貧. 今天,中國貧窮情況有很大的改善, 但霍弗描寫的那些現象也全部顯現.
改革如此艱難和危險, 也難怪今天洋共整天叫穩定, 他們[穩定]地走到這一步很不容易.
作者：唐好色 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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推薦: 埃里克‧霍弗的[狂熱分子]
