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 Open an academic conference yesterday, after dinner we happened to sit in the middle of a bunch of leftist, across the two American left, about three Chinese left ( Chinese scholars are in the United States), also known as the

can imagine, I eat during the night were caught. There is a two American Left did not participate in the debate how, there is a debate with me half the time, half time with the New Left in the debate. I have a few around the main battlefield is the New Left in China, especially sitting on my right one. The following quote a few words and this is basically a dialogue on China's New Left.

I want to say that, although I few public enemy, but more debates music, good mood, the new left-brain or so, as always, paste, or so, as always, thought disorder, 0 multiplied by 3 or equal to 0, I, as a hardcore liberal, how can you not

left after many years, and new grips, I found a new way of speaking left there is a pattern in fact is, the general has the following characteristics:

1. Strategically advantageous position and great momentum:

(listen: to developing countries, capitalist countries is the prerequisite for the development of other countries not to develop grand narrative, then what can not change just like that what to eat. When the left is always busy concocting a variety of bomb-like grand conclusion, the disappointment is always very concerned about the definition of the right wing, arguments and logic such trivial matters, for example, every time I hear this enlightening remarks above, I would particularly would like to ask: Please clear you say And how to explain China, tigers and other developing countries to rise, what data to prove that the average living standard of people in developing countries is declining and you and how to demonstrate the reasons for the decline is that the developed countries ... ..., of course, they do not always wait for you to a grand conclusion to explore the details in the clear to go directly to the next grand judgments. To judge from the judge to larger, danced to the judge, to determine the rough, the basic spirit is high to keep the secret of the left, but unfortunately for me not defined, data, logic to determine the atomic bomb, but the plastic than the morning session rotten cabbage is also on the cheap.

2. Marxism to others, for their liberal:

(fragment of a dialogue:

Iraq: Marx Imagination I write poetry ... ...

: Ting Mei sounds really good this ideal, but I want to remind you that the prerequisite for the development of modern civilization is a highly specialized division of labor, a morning of fishing all afternoon to write poetry society, it is impossible or very difficult to invent computers, mobile phones, anti-cancer drugs, heart bypass technology ... ... (By the way, here I am just used to steal Smith only)

Iraq: mobile phones, computers originally dispensable ... ...

me: you are using mobile phones, computers do?

Iraq: ... ... ... ...)

(dialogue fragment II:

Iraq: the United States a nation XX% of the world's resources, if the world people have to maintain this standard of living, the earth is not enough 200.

Me: I agree, I agree with some developed countries there is way of life is devastating ... ...

me: Why do you want to the U.S. that had this devastating life to it?)

tell the truth,cheap UGG boots, on the resources, environmental protection, this issue, I am angry with the views of the left is not very different, and I never thought treasure resources, care for the environment that the patent claim is left, but I and the difference is with the teacher, when I live this every day to wash hot bath, filled with air-conditioning heating,UGG shoes, electrical appliances ranging life, enjoy it by the huge support the basic needs of industrial energy consumption, I shouted, wasted in the part of the guilt, so one side does not like Ah gentle massage to accept capitalism, while daring to derided capitalism. A vegetarian condemn the meat eater appreciate how cruel I was a meat eater meat quietly shut up I was respected, the most disgusting is that side of the big mouth and how not to eat meat side of the condemned meat moral character.

3. Double standards and contradictory:

(dialogue clips (Speaking of China's liberation, it was brought an old lady, how liberation can not afford to wear pants, and food to eat after the liberation of the Communist Party so special thanks to ... ...)

me: Why should thank the Communist Party? government is to feed the people, the government is perfectly justified to serve the community, the Chinese at every turn the old days feel a little better life, is above the deeply grateful to their rights as other people's gifts.

Iraq: But there are many governments simply can not do this service.

me: you can not do public service can criticize the government it, but do these services, you do not need to thank it.

Iraq: it can not say that ... ...

I: What do you think you should be grateful the U.S. government do? say Public Service, the U.S. government than China is much more than China, and your children for free on the public schools, welfare, much better than China Insurance ... ...

Iraq: ... ... (ideological struggle like))

also, thanks to the left angry youth that the U.S. government's harder than biting his tongue, but I'm wondering if you think of the people should have pants to wear, food to eat to thank the Government (not speak of that famine, no pants pressing also grateful to wear no food thing), then you should for their own lives in the United States to the U.S. Government knock off a few head?

4. Shamelessly:

(dialogue fragment:

Iraq: the capitalist countries did not allow you to pursue alternative development model, gave the possibility of blocking all.

I : Who blocked you? communism has given you a chance, give several countries in the ten experiments, and you failed,UGG boots, people also do not give you the opportunity to blame?)

track and field, running their own running too fast to blame the people fell, fell once again ran himself, and ran ten times ten times fall, but aggressive running champion ran in front of the call: You do not allow me to run! Gave you blocked my way! This, this, is not it a bit shamelessly.

5. The concept of fuzzy:

(dialogue fragment:

Iraq: how difference between the left right? I think the most important one is critical of capitalism ... ...

me: so and so on and so on, you do not tell me : (hesitated a moment) I think ... ... in fact, generally speaking ... ... ... ... ... ... most of the time left on the market economy is skeptical ... ...)

capitalism categorically said, speaking of the market economy began to hum and haw. What is capitalism? Swedish capitalism? American capitalism? Chinese contemporary capitalism? 19th-century capitalism? 20th-century capitalism? The word capitalism is so vague that I do not know what it refers. Left like to use the word capitalism, because the word a hundred years, has been vilified by definition a bad thing into a. To define a bad thing, and then criticize it, such a debate, too opportunistic, right.

6. Floating afloat, but only the idea of talking about the system

(dialogue fragment:

Iraq: problematic of capitalist society, with violence to maintain social inequalities, there must be an alternative development model .

me: you said that what is meant by alternative modes? you specifically give Tell me, do not tell me describe some blueprints, and then just do not tell me how to get there, you can not imagine a utopian light ... ...

Iraq: Why can not imagine?

me: you can imagine, I was particularly curious about the system characteristics of this utopia you what.

Iraq: Imagination Utopia is about the critical reality of ... ...)

tell the truth, I sympathize with the Left, because they always stay in the level of ideas rather than to talk about the system, which is the bottleneck and their Achilles heel. In fact, not that they do not want to, but they can not, because once the system and not start thinking about the big slogans large banner, you will find social change is nothing more than two: first, improvement, their so-called more successful (such as trade unionism, the welfare system ... ...); second, revolution, what they call No wonder the left to avoid talk about the system themselves, and talk about philosophy, because on the one hand they love the question about the level of the system revealed the secret. Therefore, only called that day Then I wonder, can not be a left-wing critique? Qin Hui, He Weifang is also criticism that is not right, do not also called for care of vulnerable groups? So that left only if a critical stance, it really would be nothing left.

Moreover, the New Left in so many royalists and openly defend the dictatorship, even the Chinese workers and peasants the right to freedom of association (trade unions, peasant associations) are against what is called the left? Even the freedom of speech are against, how to maintain If Marx and his old heard him in the grave there is such a unworthy descendants, you said he would not give the elderly a rage and then die?

7. Enigmatic, allusive:

(sentence patterns:

^&*%$ ※ ^% $ # ... ... Cited by the importance of this course is not what they say, but In fact, since you have to criticize the reality directly from reality, Seoul said Adorno Benjamin for a while while you in the end it is talking to the Chinese people, or catch up with the academic fashion it? Night with En-hua phone,UGGs, I said: left to speak, or that people do not understand the words used to cover up their own mess, and when you can understand what he said, you heard right away that it was one group nonsense.

always must not forget that classic joke: a Soviet and an American with freedom of boasting how their respective countries, the Americans said: also all right. rushed to the front of the U.S. president shouted,