Some people may be surprised after reading this title.
Today I read the article "The fighter who once shocked the country is gone" from "Global People Magazine".
article wrote:
His life lived up to the times.
The name Hu Fuming is closely tied to an article. He is the main author of " practice is the only criterion for testing truth " and the winner of the title of "Reform Pioneer".
On January 2, 2023, Hu Fuming passed away at the age of 87.
The article called Hu Fuming "igniting the fuse of emancipating the mind" and "a passionate fighter who dared to speak the truth in a special era."
Let us also tell the truth today: Practice is the only criterion for testing truth. This sentence was said by Chairman Mao.
once wrote a special article. When I found Chairman Mao’s words about practice being the only criterion for testing truth, his account was blocked and the information was no longer available. I saw one recently:
According to research, in 1845 Marx raised "the question of the standard for testing truth." 118 years later, in November 1963, Liu, Deng and others wrote "Two Lines on the Issue of War and Peace - Open Letter of the Five Commentaries on the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union" at the East Lake Hotel. After this article was printed, the instructor revised and added "Social practice is the only criterion for testing truth...".
At that time, I also read an article "The level of the large collective economy is similar to that of the national football team", which criticized the success of New China's large collectives based on the failure of today's football marketization. These people are not seeking truth from facts at all. What is more important is that they completely deny it. Young people do not understand the true situation of New China in the past 30 years. Before the market-oriented reform, Chinese football was one of the best in Asia and basically remained in the top three. Japan, South Korea, and Syria were all defeated. In 1994, the year when football became club-oriented and market-oriented, the Chinese football team defeated the then World Cup champion Argentina 1:0 in an international match.
So what happened next?
Starting from 1994, Chinese football began to decline. It dropped from 40th in the world rankings in 1994 to 79th today, a drop of 39 places in 38 years. Football tycoons entered the game.
This is that practice is the only criterion for testing truth. But some people are unwilling to accept the truth. I have to continue to deny it.
Lao Xu wrote an article, but it could not be published on a platform. He deleted Chairman Mao's words that "social practice is the only criterion for testing truth" and then published it, but it was under control. However, WeChat, which used to be strictly controlled and blocked many accounts, has been released. WeChat has indeed changed a lot recently and has become a lot more relaxed.
In fact, it is not easy to tell the truth nowadays, and your posts will be deleted and your account will be banned. But today, from the perspective of history and reality, "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth", Lao Xu dared to tell the truth.
I dare to tell the truth, and I also see the relaxed public opinion environment today. Although some forces demanded that Sima Nan and be blocked and heavily criticized Sima Nan, Sima Nan's account was not blocked and Sima Nan continued to talk. Today I also saw an article published by the platform "The lessons learned in Xiaogang Village are worth pondering. Only by finally returning to the collective economy can the door to wealth be opened." The article begins:
Since 1978, Xiaogang Village divided farmland into households. After 38 long years, the people have been living in poverty. Finally, in 2016, the divided land was recovered and returned to collective ownership. Only by coordinating rational utilization and strengthening the collective economy did the door to wealth open.
Therefore, it is an indisputable fact that the household distribution of farmland in Xiaogang Village ended in failure.
Xiaogang Village is located in Xiaoxihe Town, Fengyang County, Chuzhou City, Anhui Province. In 1978, the "Eighteen Arhats" of Xiaogang Village made a declaration of life and death and pressed their red fingerprints on the responsibility letter for allocating land to households in rural areas. This kicked off the process of allocating land to households in rural areas. People across the country heard the term " Xiaogang Spirit" for the first time through radio stations. The publicity that followed was that the people in Xiaogang Village had finally solved their food and clothing problem. Soon, household distribution of farmland spread across the country.
However, the distribution of farmland to households has not helped people get rid of poverty and become rich. In 2003, the per capita income of farmers in Xiaogang Village was less than 2,000 yuan, which was far lower than the national average. That year, the per capita income in the Yangtze River Delta region exceeded the 10,000 yuan mark, but in Xiaogang Village it was less than 20% of that in other places. Not only that, Xiaogang Village's collective external debt is high, and the village has been unable to elect a village leadership team for two consecutive years. No one dares to take over this mess.
It was not until 1983 that the villagers of Xiaogang Village bought their first tractor, which was purchased with a loan and policy support. Before the distribution of farmland to each household, tractors were basically common. With the distribution of farmland to each household, collective assets were equally distributed. The tractors in the village were rusted and rotted in the corners, and the various fields were divided. The villagers of Xiaogang Village returned to the status quo of manual farming. It has to be said that the distribution of fields to households has restricted the development of agricultural mechanization. As for the increase in output, improvements in seeds, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides have played a decisive role.
Some people described Xiaogang Village back then as: it crossed the subsistence line overnight and had not passed the poverty line for thirty years.
On the contrary, several villages that did not implement household distribution of farmland and insisted on taking the collective road continued to grow and develop under the promotion of the collective economy. The collective economy of Nanjie Village reached 1.7 billion yuan in 1984; the industrial output value of Daqiuzhuang in 1992 was said to have reached 4 billion yuan; the per capita income of Huaxi Village in 2003 was 130,000 yuan, and everyone lived in small villas; even the per capita net income of farmers in Dasai Village reached 2,200 yuan in 2003, more than 200 yuan more than Xiaogang Village.
"The household distribution of farmland in Xiaogang Village ultimately failed." In this case, Sima Nan would not dare to talk about such a thing. But these words have been said and distributed. Although it is not the official media but the self-media, we do insist that practice is the only criterion for testing truth, and we insist on seeking truth from facts.
Lao Xu dared to tell the truth. If he told the truth and told the truth, his account would not be banned.
Hu Fuming can tell the truth and dares to tell the truth. Old Xu also tells the truth today: Practice is the only criterion for testing truth. This sentence is the original work of Chairman Mao. The sentence
cannot be denied.
Regarding "Practice is the Only Criterion for Testing Truth", the author Hu Fuming also said that this is the soul of Mao Zedong Thought.
On the 129th anniversary of Chairman Mao's birth on December 26 last year, Lao Xu's article "China's century-old practice has proved that Chairman Mao is wise, correct and great" boldly stated this sentence: " Everyone admits that reform and opening up has an iconic article "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth." The author also admits that the title is Mao Zedong Thought and Chairman Mao's words. The author's recitation is not original, the original is Chairman Mao."
Lao Xu also said a lot:
Many people do not understand that in fact, Chairman Mao foresaw the historical process behind him during his lifetime, which is independent of human will. Let practice test who is right and who is wrong.
Great people have experienced this kind of thing many times. In the early days of the revolution in Jinggangshan, the "three-person regiment" from the central government seized Chairman Mao's command over the Red Army. They negated Comrade Mao's mobile warfare and engaged in fortress-to-fortress positional warfare, causing huge losses to the Red Army and the loss of the Central Soviet Area base. The bloody lessons proved that Comrade Mao was right. Zunyi Conference Chairman Mao regained his leadership position and military command power.
At that time, Bogu and Li De still did not admit their mistakes, saying that our tactics were successful foreign tactics and that it was not our fault that the Red Army could not win.
encountered the same problem again today, football collapsed, and the rich guys got in. Some people say that the marketization of football and football clubization have been successful abroad, but why have they failed in China?
Chairman Mao has long told them that China is China, not a foreign country, and Marxism must be integrated with China's reality. Don’t read a few books and study foreign languages for a few days and then apply Western free marketization. This is the bookism, dogmatism and subjectivism that Chairman Mao criticized during his Jinggangshan period. What has been proven in foreign practice may not necessarily work in China.
Some people say that the level of football in China today is like collectivization 40 years ago. This time they have put it to the test, and after showing the agricultural achievements of the People's Republic of China in the past 30 years, some people have other things to say. In 1949, China's total grain output was 110 million tons, and in 1979 it was 330 million tons, a three-fold increase in 30 years. Ranking second in terms of growth in the world, a small African country has a higher growth rate than China. Among the 20 most important products such as steel, oil, and automobiles, China has ranked first in the world in terms of growth in 28 products in the past 30 years, and food has not ranked first.
It is difficult to compare further. With the growth rate in the past 30 years, China's grain output should be 1 billion tons in the next 30 years, and by 2019, the 40th year, it should be more than 1.6 billion tons. In 2019, China's grain output was 660 million tons, a full billion tons less. This is the truth tested in practice. Whether you want to admit it or not, this has been China’s agricultural practice for more than 100 years.
Therefore, the central government has just held a rural work conference, proposing agricultural power and agricultural modernization, and once again emphasizing food security, because China is the largest food importer, and the Chinese people's jobs cannot be in the hands of the United States.
What is agricultural modernization? It means scale, intensification, and industrialization, and the starting point is land collectivization. Without collectivization, there would be no scale, intensification, industrialization, and modernization.
TV series " County Party Committee Courtyard " touches on agricultural issues. Issues such as land abandonment, unprofitable farming, no young people to farm, and the hollowing out of rural areas have all been raised. There are many problems. Guangming County's solution is to transfer land and centralize management. However, land transfer encounters many stubborn households who would rather leave the land uncultivated than transfer it. Another problem is that the turnover cost is too high and operators cannot bear it. Therefore, Guangming County only raised problems but did not solve them.
In fact, the solution is very simple. Land is collectively owned. This has not changed. Joint production contracting is not land privatization. Once you confirm this, won't it be solved?
Of course, agriculture is only a part of the economy, an important small part. New China's 30 years of industrial growth was confirmed in 1976, with a 19-fold increase. The next 40 years will be very big. The biggest statement is that GDP has increased by 300 times. This is a monetary comparison, but when compared with actual wealth, that is, with GDP’s ability to create wealth, the gap is too big.
I just saw someone from Hebei disclosed that a certain new district invested 30 trillion yuan, and I remembered that the total investment in the third-tier construction back then was 200 billion yuan. The number of factories built, cities built, railways, highways and railways built, and workers employed, may be much more than 30 trillion yuan.
A specific case, The Hongqi Canal was built at a cost of 120 million. Some people say that it will definitely not be built with an investment of 12 billion now.
Of course, the 30 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China cannot compare to the building of buildings and money printing that came later. The debt of 200 trillion, some say 300 trillion, is the unbearable burden of China's economy today.
can be practiced, but it cannot be compared or tested. Once compared and tested, the secret will be exposed. This article is going to be stuck. But today I am stuck and I have to write it down.
Why Chairman Mao is correct is because of Chairman Mao's epistemology , theory of practice , theory of contradiction, law of unity of opposites materialist dialectics.
The mistakes of some people are dogmatism, subjectivism, and one-sidedness. They split the economy into a planned economy and market economy, and oppose and unify the two, denying the unity and connection between the two. It is said that New China has been a planned economy for 30 years, and reform and opening up has been a market economy. They advocate that the planned economy and ownership by the whole people are bad, the market economy is omnipotent, and the privatized private economy is invincible and magical. However, practice has proved that there are many problems with marketization. There are too many private private enterprises and they cannot survive, so they call for national support.
A century of Chinese practice has proven that Chairman Mao is wise, great and correct. It reminds people of Vice Chairman Lei Jieqiong's inscription at Chairman Mao's former residence in Shaoshan: "The public is eternal, the private is temporary."
Finally, it must be said that Lao Xu is by no means denying anything or anyone. Lao Xu is holding high the great banner of reform and opening up, "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth", and affirming and praising Chairman Mao's great achievements.
