From the article of 'Petrel'
No.584 / June 9, 1996
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The seventh anniversary of Tiananmen Square prodemocracy protests
Dissatisfaction of whirling contradiction and general public
In the shadow of superficial "Stability"
Fantasy of collapsing prosperity
June 4 when Tienanmen plaza dyed sea of blood -- Seven years already passed from that. To the way at the ordinary year, Chinese authorities put the Beijing city, especially the plaza surrounding under a strict precaution system, by imprisoning the democratic activity person or doing "Preventive confinement", Chinese authorities try to get over June 4 peacefully manage. However, the problem is "What occurs on this day?" or not "What does not occur?". Does the system contradiction of China which caused the Tiananmen Square prodemocracy protests faced the cancellation or deepen? -- It is a problem.
The answer is naturally clear. What indicts by student, sympathizes with it by worker people, and became opportunity which develops into large-scale demonstration and meeting struggle -- The expansion of the difference between lack of "Democracy" and bureaucrat's rot and rich and poor etc. become aggravated further far from any not being solved. Years of seven years were years enough to expose the fantasy which a bourgeois bureaucrat which is that "Reformed and opened" route enriched the entire people had made public.
Whether contradiction that exists inside this system deepens how much becomes clear from some indices at once in back of the superficially rapid economic development between these.
Inactive management of a government-owned enterprise
The one from 70% to 80% in a government-owned enterprise that is still a kernel of "Socialist market economy" even though the specific gravity decreased to it is deficit management and it burdens the entire economy. However, it is not resultful at all though it is a putting voice of the reformation.
A government-owned factory is holding facilities at the company house, the hospital, and the school, etc. for "Surplus the number of men" and them in addition to the equipment which becomes superannuated. So that a government-owned enterprise may give the result as "Capital", "Rationalization" can do nothing but do the management to a government-owned enterprise. The brewing of a large amount of unemployment and an uneasy society is inevitable if government-owned enterprise does so. Then, a government-owned enterprise can do nothing but keep still holding "Surplus the number of men and facilities".
However, the delay and the have no rations of pay are successive because there are a lot of enterprises which fall into the shutdown and the curtailment of operations because of the deficit management. Because the worker does not have work even if going to office, the salary of about 70% is gotten, the stall and the open air commerce, etc. are done actually, and starvation is surpassed.
According to the investigation which the group of the young man researcher in China brought together, the virtual unemployed and the half unemployed say that descending about 20,000,000 persons and the three-quarter in whole land are workers of a government-owned enterprise. If the number of men arrangement of a government-owned enterprise is inevitable, the increase of the unemployed might be also inevitable.
Declining farm village
On the other hand, 120,000,000 of 420,000,000 work people are called surplus manpower also in the farm village part. It is in a stagnant tendency recently though the farm village manpower which the rural districts enterprise absorbed has already exceeded 100,000,000 and every 10,000,000 farmers are going out to the work away from home. They flow in the city and are composing the lowest, near inhabitant layer in the city as a low wage worker and a vagrancy person. This is a soil which prevails of the heinous crime and prostitution, etc.
Because the farm village investment has been pressed by a vigorous industrial investment in recent years, it is easy for a so-called infrastructure of the farm village (fundamental production base) to lag behind, to become superannuated, and to receive damage due to a natural calamity such as shining at the downpour and the day. A direct economic loss due to a natural calamity of last year corresponds to 30% of a national financial income by 186,300,000,000 yuan (about 2,420,000,000,000 yen).
Pressing a severe load to the farmer (various cost collections and obligation work, etc.) continues still, too and the difference of the life level of the city and the farm village just extends. Farmer's net income a person is 1,578 yuan (monthly income 131.5 yuan, one yuan is about 13 yen) on the average, city workers'30% or less though city worker's average pay of last year is 5,500 yuan during year, 458 yuan on the average of the moon, according to statistics of a national statistical bureau. Farmer's outflow to the city will not become weak even if becoming strong.
Expansion of difference of rich and poor
It is necessary to note that there is a big income difference by the city also in the city part. According to the investigation of a recent private organization, average monthly incomes of the worker in a specially economic district Shenzhen are 1,747 yuan and it is large amount of moneys very, comparatively with that Beijing is 619 yuan, Shanghai is 832 yuan, Kuangchou (Cantonese ministry) is 879 yuan. The comparison between city parts has a difference three times near. (the worker in Shenzhen that especially, the monthly income of the large amount of money has obtained the monthly income more than the annual income of the farmer.)
Average monthly incomes of the worker home are about 900 yuan, from 1,200 to 1,700 yuan also in a large city except Shenzhen, considering that there are a lot of man and wife working in double harness in China. This has the great difference compared with the farmer. This is an average income to the last and it is needless to say to a part of privileged bureaucrat and the new bourgeoisie to obtain the high incomes not compared with the worker.
For instance, the boutiques of a famous brand line up underground at the international trade center in the center part in Beijing and sell high-level clothes which price from 4,000 to 10,000 yuan or more, and it is said that guest's majority there are Chinese. It is said that the cooking which does as many as 400-500 yuan a person is being eaten by Chinese in a Japanese restaurant of the fashion recently.
That is, A bourgeois hierarchy that buys the worn high level clothes by times the monthly income of an average worker how many and eats the cooking of the price more than the salary for one month is formed in China plain. Even this might be a result of "Reform and open" route. The bureaucrat bourgeoisie and "Private organization" capitalist which adhere to bureaucrat are formed under the rule of a national bureaucrat who has powers continuously and it came to compose the rich rule class clearly distinguished from a general worker.
On the other hand, formation of the bourgeoisie, formation of wide worker class on the other hand (Huge farmer who becomes pauperism as the reserve) -- This shows being formed a social condition that the class struggle develops really in China. The history does not uselessly spend time. Seven years after the Tiananmen Square prodemocracy protests were years by which the class struggle of the worker was prepared.
Sarcasm of "Soul civilization"
Now, the Jiang Zemin regime tries to deal with the deepening contradiction of the society and general public's dissatisfaction by campaigning for "Soul civilization construction". They assume that the cause of disorder and rot of social order, rampancy of crime, deterioration of public peace etc. is that the development of economy not accompany the construction of "Soul civilization", and say "Soul civilization construction". What sarcasm that a bourgeois bureaucrat in China which has been entirely pursuing "Material civilization" calls "Soul civilization" at this time is.
This year is miraculously moved a cultural large revolution and falls on the 30th anniversary. "Real Powers sect bureaucrat" that hated the Cultural large revolution as "Disturbance" that destroyed a social economic system of China and made it retreat, calls "Soul civilization" that is, ideology revolution ("Cultural revolution"). Even this It is as if even this "The history is repeated, the first time as a tragedy, the second times as a farce" (Hegel) was realized.
A national bureaucrat in China is tremble with fear in "Evil" of the bourgeois economy which oneself drew out and can do nothing but call the fight with it. However the fight should stay to the last in the area of "Soul". The reason for it is that they dread the worker's turning to this system the halberd of the criticism ahead to say nothing of this. However, there might not be worker who lends the ear to such preaches of course. The worker in China will be conscious of the problem no this time "Cultural revolution" and nor "Social revolution". Even it is inevitability of the history. (A statistical figure in the sentence is quoted from "Depths of the China reformation and opening" that was serialized to the title on May 21 of April 30 of 'World weekly report'.)
(Ken'ichi Suzuki)