13 March 2006

Liu Xiaobo: Hu Jintao regime fire shots left and right

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最近,胡温政权打压媒体和严控舆论之不智,倒霉的不管是自由派,也波及左派。自《新京报》和《冰点》被整肃之后,自由派文化网站爱琴海也被杭州市网管封杀。与此同时,三个左派网站中国工人工农兵BBS”共产党人也被当局封杀;被大陆新左派力挺的香港中文大学财经教授郎咸平也被封杀,上海有线电视第一财经频道的脱口秀节目《财经郎闲评》在227日突然被上海有关部门下令停播。

Recently, the Hu Wen administration has been indiscriminate in repressing the media and controlling public opinion—not only were liberals doing it tough, but the leftists too. After Xinjing bao and Freezing point were purged, Aegean Sea, a liberal culture website, was closed down by the Hangzhou network management as well. At the same time, three left wing websites Chinese Worker, Workers, Peasants and Soldiers BBS and Communist were closed down by the regime; so also was Lang Xianping, a professor of finance at Chinese University of Hong Kong much touted by the PRC’s new left forces. “Lang’s Leisure Com­ments on Finance,” his talk show on Shanghai cable TV’s No. 1 Finance Channel, was suddenly ordered to stop broadcasting by Shanghai Relevant agencies on 27 February.

郎咸平成长于台湾、就读于美国,就业于香港。他以公司财务专家身份品评大陆经济改革,强烈批判大陆国有资产流失、国退民进问题,揭露一些企业界人士以收购名义,对国家资产巧取豪夺,由此刮起所谓的郎旋风。郎咸平已经变成大陆媒体追逐的热点人物,不断在各种媒体上露面,有些电视台还请他主持专题节目。

Lang Xianping grew up in Taiwan, studied in US, and is employed in Hong Kong. Apprais­ing China’s economic reforms in his role as corporate finance expert, sharply critic­ising the erosion of state assets in the mainland and problems of “withdrawal of the state in favour of the people,” exposing some people in the business community public who, claiming to pur­chase, take over state property by force and deceit—from all this a so-called “Lang tornado” has blown up. Lang Xianping has become a personality pursued by the mainland media, constantly appearing on all the media, and invited by television stations host special programs.

据报道,停播的表面原因是经济理由,而实质原因却是政治黑状有关。因为,郎咸平的直说敢言的风格使《财经郎闲评》每周两次,重播五次,很受欢迎, 跻身于上海有线电视节目收视率排行榜前三名,偶尔还能排到第一。由此可见,《财经郎闲评》获得了巨大的成功。但郎咸平的成功招致那些被他批评和揭露的企业 界人士的怨恨,他们联名告状,以莫须有的罪名指控他背景复杂动机可疑,他在中国大陆挑起一些经济话题的争论,起到了李登辉和陈水扁不能起 到的作用

According to reports, broadcasting ceased for economic reasons, but political factors were actually in the background. His daring style of frank speech led to “Lang’s Leisure Comments on Finance” airing twice a week and being rebroadcast five times, and was very much in demand, winning it top three, and occasionally even top rating on Shanghai cable TV. This shows how hugely successful “Lang’s Leisure Comments” have been. But his success incurred the hatred of the business community public figures whom he had criticized and exposed. They jointly complained, accusing him of “fabricating charges” “having a complex background” and “dubious motives,” of provoking dissension over economic issues in the PRC, “playing a role impossible for either Li Denghui and or Chen Shuibian.”

六四后,中共的既定方针就是坚定不移地反自由化反和平演变,大陆的自由派知识分子和开明媒体、自由主义网站一直是现政权打压的重点。但为了维护权力和严控舆论,左右开攻也是中共常态,江泽民当政时期,也封杀过老左派邓立群等人把持的极左刊物《真理的追求》和《中流》。

After June Fourth, the CCP’s the policy was steadfast “counter-liberalization” and “counter- peaceful evolution”, the mainland liberal intellectuals and the enlightened media, and liberal website were always key points of suppression by the regime. But in order to maintain power and strictly control public opinion, the Party’s standard approach has been to attack both left and right. When Jiang Zemin was in power, he also closed the ultra-left publications Zhenli de zhuiqiu [Seeking truth] and Zhongliu [Mainstream] dominate by people like the old leftist Deng Liqun, etc.

虽说与江泽民政权相比,胡锦涛政权在意识形态上的左转是不争的事实,胡锦涛本人崇尚西柏坡精神延安精神,屡屡前往革命老区作秀;在现行政策上高举亲民旗帜、关注社会公正奇缺,用帮助农民工追逃欠薪和废除农业税来体现关注弱势群体。

While in ideological terms the leftward turn of the Hu Jintao regime compared with that of Jiang Zemin is an indisputable fact, and while Hu Jintao advocates the spirits of “Xibaipo” and “Yan’an”, and repeatedly makes a show of going to these old revolutionary liberated areas, raising the flag of the people and devoting attention to social justice are actually very scarce in current policies, concern for disadvantaged groups is displayed by [merely] helping rural migrant workers to pursue their back pay and abolishing the agricultural tax.

然而,就当下中国的现实而言,以独裁特权为自称的各级权贵家族,早已形成了各自的利益集团,其特征是:1只进不出的封闭性;2只增不减的刚性;3,权贵集团主宰公共决策。所以,两极分化和社会不公等问题的日益加重,在根本上不是因为物质再分配的不公正,而在于基本权利分配的极端不 公。也就是说,首先是官权与民权之间的巨大不平等,才导致物质利益再分配中的巨大不平等。

However, in terms of China’s present reality, powerful official clans at various levels who claim dictatorial privilege for themselves, have already formed their own special interest groups whose characteristics are: 1) a closed nature where they “only enter, never exit”; 2) a rigidity that is “only increased and never reduced”; 3)control of public policy by powerful official groups. The constantly intensifying problems of polarization and society inequity etc., hence is due basic­ally not to unjust material redistribution, but to a highly inequitable assign­ment of basic rights. In other words, the huge inequity of material interest redistribution as between officials and people is caused by the huge inequity of rights.

无论胡温政权的意识形态高调唱得多么华丽,但其现实统治却是极端机会主义的,只要对政权稳定这一最高目标构成挑战,它才不管挑战来自何方、意识形 态认同如何,只要它觉得且权威遭遇挑战、政治稳定遭到威胁,内在的权力恐惧就会推动它痛下狠手,管他左右,统统封杀。早在2003年,河南的左派张纤夫、 张正耀,因散发《毛泽东——我们永远的领袖》传单而被判刑。

Despite its magnificently intoned and lofty ideology, the rule of the Hu-Wen administration is in fact extremely opportunistic—whatever constitutes a challenge to the regime’ supreme objective, stability, no matter where it comes from, or how ideologically acceptable, as soon as it feels its authority is under challenge, its political stability is threatened, its inherent fearfulness for its power will impel it to use cruel methods, exert control over left and right and close down everything. As early as 2003, Henan leftists Zhang Qianfu and Zhang Zhengyao were sentenced for issuing a circular reading “Mao Zedong—Our Eternal Leader”.

在当下中国,凡是自称左派的人,大都是机会主义的,高官们如此,知识界名流亦如此。比如,面对胡锦涛政权的左右开弓,号称优先关注底层利益的新左派们,再次表现出首鼠两端的机会主义。大陆的新左派人士从来不敢抗议当局对言论自由的压制,而专干落井下石的卑劣勾当。

In China, those calling themselves leftists, whether senior officials or intellectual celebrities, are mostly opportunists. For instance, facing the Hu Jintao regime attacks on both the left and the right, the new leftists, who style themselves as concerned for the interests of the lower strata, once again displayed shilly-shallying opportunism. China’s new left personalities have never dared to protest the regime’s suppression of freedom of speech, but specialise in mean acts of hitting people when they are down.

比如,大陆的三位著名新左派中国青少年研究中心研究员王小东,政治学者兼《国际社会科学》杂志副主编黄纪苏,中国政法大学教授杨帆,他们接着官方整肃《冰点》的时机,对自由派知识分子李大同和袁伟时落井下石。在一个座谈会上,他们指责李大同与资本家相勾结、向强权屈从;指责袁伟时宣扬奴化影射史 ,并称义和团所代表的民族主义属于不容挑战的国家信仰。当这种信仰被挑战时,政府利用行政手段关闭冰点的行为也不能排斥,但需要按照法律进行。也就是说,新左们从来不在乎任何人的言论权利,非但不关心自由派的言论权利,而且对同道的言论权利也漠不关心。比如,河南的左派张纤夫、张正耀,因散发《毛泽东—— 我们永远的领袖》传单而被判刑时,没有一位新左派站出来表示关注;反日游行中,上海当局逮捕了在网上组织游行的汤晔,也没有一位爱国者站出来捍卫汤晔的权利;最近,中国工人工农兵BBS”共产党人三个左派网站被当局封杀,至今也没有听到任何一位著名新左派的抗议声。

For instance, mainland three renowned new leftists—Wang Xiaodong (China young people research center Researcher), Huang Jisu (political scholar and deputy Editor of the journal International Society Science), and Yang Fan, professor at the Chinese University of Politics and Law— taking advantage of the official purge of Freezing Point, hit liberal intellectual Li Datong and Yuan Weishi when they were down. At a seminar, they accused Li of collusion with capitalism, submitting to might; and accused Yuan of publicising “servile ten­d­entious history,” and said the nationalism represented by the Boxers belonged to an unchall­engeable “state faith.” They would not exclude the government’s actions in closing Freezing Point by administrative means when this “faith” was challenged, but it needed to be done legally. In other words, new left lack of regard for anyone’s right to an opinion, is not only for those of liberals, but to those of people of the same convictions. For instance, when Henan leftists Zhang Qianfu and Zhang Zhengyao were arrested because their leaflet entitled “Mao Zedong —our eternal Leader”, not one new leftist stood up to express concern; and during the anti-Japan demonstrations, the Shanghai authorities arrested Tang Ye who had organised demonstrations on-line, yet not one “patriot” stood up for his rights; and when the three leftist websites—Chinese Worker”, Workers, Peasants and Soldiers BBS and Communist—were recently closed down by the authorities, no sound of resistance has been heard from well-known new leftists so far.

新左派的民粹主义旗帜很绚丽,舞起来,令人眼花缭乱;新左派的社会公正腔调很高昂,唱起来,让人难以企及;新左派的爱国主义口号很响亮,喊出来, 还有点震耳欲聋;但,除了绚烂、响亮、高亢的表皮之外,他们就是没有对底层民众的实际关怀,也没有对野蛮强权的实际反抗,更没有对真正损害国家利益的独裁政权的谴责。

The populist banners of the new left are resplendent, fluttering and dazzling; their melody of social justice is uplifting, soaring, incomparable; their patriotic slogans are resounding, stentor­ian, but also a little deafening; but, the brilliant, soaring, resounding outer show apart, they have neither genuine concern for the lower strata, nor genuine resistance to the barbaric power, and even less condemnation of a dictatorial regime that genuinely harms the national interest.

这样的行为,已经远远超出个人行为的犬儒化了,而堕落为言论杀手的帮凶。

Such behavior far exceeds cynical personal behavior, but and has degenerated to being accomplices in murdering opinion.

200639日于北京家中(《苹果日报》2006311日)

Beijing, 9 March 9, 2006 (Apple Daily 11 March 2006).



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