Recently, another unhealthy trend has emerged in the literary and historical circle. Many people began to whitewash Western colonists again, trying to beautify their aggression.
and so much that such an ignorant question was asked, in fact, this is not the first time such a question has occurred. As early as the 1980s, someone published an article saying that "it is the British capitalism that opened the door to China. If China did not resist, China would have already achieved modernization."
This article caused a great sensation at that time, and many scholars published articles to refute it.
So today we will take a look at what is wrong with the logic of this problem? Next time someone asks such an ignorant question, you can directly refute him!
First of all, netizens who can raise this question confuse the spread of capitalist civilization with aggression. For example, if you come to my house and teach me step by step how to use and make machines, everything is based on equal and voluntary basis, then this is called the spread of civilization. But if you come to my house and take everything away. And forcing me to work for you, I can only get a very small reward. And you can only kneel down and talk to you, so this is called invasion.
The most direct example is After the Opium War , the transaction volume of normal commodities such as cotton yarn and cotton cloth in Western trade only increased slightly, and some even fell. The only thing that has risen rapidly is the opium trading volume!
Secondly, capitalism comes to China not to help China develop. A wealthy and powerful China was not in line with the interests of the imperialist powers at that time, and a backward and poor China was in line with their interests. The arrival of imperialism not only did not help China's capitalism develop, but instead hindered the development of national capitalism.
The arrival of capitalism is not to make the Chinese richer, but to make the Chinese poorer.
Third, a more intuitive example is our neighbor India. India was invaded by Britain as early as the 16th and 17th centuries and was colonized for hundreds of years. Then do you think the Indian people have a good life? The people of India not only did not enjoy the happiness brought by capitalist civilization, but instead suffered more pain than before when they were ruled by feudalism and fell into a more destitute situation.
Generally speaking, people who believe that when facing aggression do not resist and can earn peace by begging are all delusional and ignorant.
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