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"Great unification" is the biggest obstacle to the democratization of Chinese society.
——To establish a modern democratic society, the old system of unification must be completely dismantled.
Today, I'd like to introduce a new concept to all netizens: "Great Unification." Everyone has heard of "Great Unification," but the Great Unification I'm proposing today is the CCP regime's extreme and absolute application of this concept—its politicization, institutionalization, and socialization.
First, what is "Great Unification"? According to Wikipedia, Great Unification is a concept of national unification in China since the Western Zhou Dynasty, emphasizing the unification of various systems. Examples include unified calendars and laws, unified government decrees, national unity, ethnic unity, unified etiquette, unified weights and measures, and unified writing.
The concept of "unified rule" is a deeply rooted imperial ideology and governing philosophy in Chinese society, with a history of thousands of years. While the national unity, political order, calendar system, etiquette, weights and measures, and written language in the concept of unified rule may have had some progressive significance and a certain degree of timeliness and historical relevance in the backward feudal era, with the advent of democratic politics and the free market economy, unified rule as an ideology has become a shackle that hinders social development and progress.
After the CCP seized state power, in order to maintain the one-party dictatorship and totalitarian rule of the Communist Party, it not only fully inherited the mantle of traditional unification, but also further extreme and absolutized it, transforming it into a political system and social institution for ruling China, turning the traditional concept of "unification" into today's social reality of "unification".
Lü Honglai: "Great unification" is the biggest obstacle to the democratization of Chinese society
The CCP regime's "great unification" is not only about national unification, government orders, etiquette, ethnic unification, weights and measures, and written language, but has also gone to extremes to achieve political unification, economic unification, ideological unification, cultural unification, and propaganda unification. Moreover, the entire country, from top to bottom, must absolutely adhere to the comprehensive and unified leadership of the Communist Party and accept the Communist Party's absolute unified command, unified decision-making, unified deployment, and unified action.
In order to consolidate the CCP's one-party dictatorship and totalitarian rule, today, under the CCP's unified political system, the tentacles of one-party dictatorship and totalitarian rule have extended to all aspects and corners of society, becoming a major political obstacle to China's path toward freedom, democracy, and the rule of law!
More importantly, under the authoritarian rule of the CCP regime, China has entered an era of "great unification." This so-called era of great unification means that unification is no longer merely an ideology or concept, but a real political system and social institution that opposes universal values and is completely opposed to human civilization. It is naked authoritarian rule, which is incomparable to "great unification."
"Great unification" is nothing but naked autocracy and dictatorship; it's the official expression of one-party totalitarian rule, just as robbery is described as "land reform," mass slaughter as "suppressing counter-revolutionaries," and drug production and trafficking as "charcoal burning." Therefore, our opposition to "great unification" today is not merely a matter of thought, ideas, and ideology, but a political struggle between freedom and autocracy, democracy and dictatorship, rule of law and rule of man, civilization and barbarity—a contest between justice and evil. This is the core and essence of the issue.
The forced unification promoted by the CCP regime has caused far more harm to Chinese society than mere unification itself. Under this unified political system, Chinese people have lost their basic human rights, their fundamental personality and dignity. Society has degenerated, politics have become corrupt, and right and wrong have been reversed. For the sake of power and profit, no bottom line has been abandoned.
While I believe the concept of a unified empire is far outdated, it is significantly different from the unified empire promoted by the CCP regime, and the two cannot be compared. In particular, it is unfair for some scholars to attribute the social harm and negative consequences caused by the CCP regime's current unified empire to the traditional concept of a unified empire.
Lü Honglai: To establish a modern democratic society, the great unification must be completely dismantled.
The specific harms of a unified China to the Chinese nation are as follows:
1Great unification is the root of political autocracy and dictatorship: The essence of great unification is political autocracy and dictatorship, which means that the whole country must obey one person or one party. This will inevitably lead to a high concentration of power. The political system of great unification is autocracy and dictatorship, and the society of great unification is an autocracy and dictatorship society.
2. Great unification is the natural enemy of political pluralism, ideological pluralism, and cultural pluralism: To uphold great unification, it is necessary to uphold the unity of politics, ideology, and culture. Because cultural pluralism will inevitably lead to ideological pluralism, and ideological pluralism will inevitably lead to political pluralism, which will endanger great unification. Therefore, if great unification is upheld, there can be no political pluralism, ideological pluralism, or cultural pluralism. It will inevitably lead to a backward society with centralized political power, a single economic model, and a single social structure.
3. Great unification is the pretext for suppressing all political dissidents: To achieve great unification, it is impossible to allow political pluralism, and the existence of political opposition and political dissidents cannot be allowed, because the existence of any political opposition and political dissidents will pose a direct challenge and threat to great unification. Therefore, maintaining great unification becomes the political interface for severely suppressing any political dissidents and political opposition and eliminating political opponents.
4. The deep-seated reason for the formation of a huge bureaucratic privileged class and serious corruption in China today ：is that the large unification leads to excessive concentration of power, which makes it impossible to effectively supervise and restrain power. This inevitably creates a privileged class, resulting in power-money transactions and rent-seeking, which breeds corruption. Since power is greater than the law and power is not effectively supervised and restrained, it ultimately leads to the fact that no official is not corrupt. Therefore, the large unification is the direct reason for the formation of a huge bureaucratic privileged class and serious corruption in China today.
5. The fundamental contradiction between the unified system and the free market economy: Under the unified system, the economy must obey the unified leadership, command, decision-making and deployment of the CCP. This makes it impossible to have a true free market or true economic freedom. What there can be is only bureaucratic capital, government-business market and government-business economy.
6. The deep-seated reason for the widening gap between rich and poor in Chinese society is the great unification: As a superpower with 1.4 billion people, China has vastly different ethnic groups and regions. Each region and ethnic group needs to formulate its own development goals and plans based on its actual situation. When all power is concentrated in the central government, it not only severely restricts the actions of local governments, but also causes resources and wealth to flow to the regions where the interests of the ruling class are concentrated, leading to a further widening of the gap between rich and poor in different regions.
7. Unification is a stumbling block to the establishment of a rule-of-law society with judicial independence: because judicial independence itself requires breaking up unification. The hallmark of a rule-of-law society is equality before the law, requiring those in power to also abide by the law, and the separation of powers: mutual checks and balances. These are all incompatible with unification. Without unification, there can be no true rule-of-law society. To establish a rule-of-law society, it is necessary to completely overthrow unification. Unification is the stumbling block to establishing a rule-of-law society.
8. The Great Unification is an insurmountable barrier to the nationalization of the military: The nationalization of the military means that the military belongs to the state, the military is only loyal to the people and the constitution, and the military must not obey any political party or individual; for today's party army, which is absolutely loyal to the Communist Party, absolutely obeys the Party's command, and takes the execution of the Party's political tasks as its mission, it is an insurmountable barrier. To achieve the nationalization of the military, the Great Unification must be completely broken.
9. Genuine autonomy is impossible under a unified system: Under the rule of the CCP, there are nominally five autonomous regions for ethnic minorities, as well as the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions. However, in reality, none of the five autonomous regions are truly autonomous. All five are under the strict control of the CCP, with CCP-appointed Party secretaries serving as the top leaders of the autonomous regions, i.e., the grassroots governments. They must absolutely obey the unified leadership, command, decision-making, and deployment of the Communist Party. Where is there any ethnic autonomy to speak of ?!
Today, we must not only eradicate the lingering poison of traditional "unified" ideology, but also oppose the CCP's "unified" system and institutions. Because unified rule is nothing but naked autocracy and dictatorship, a shield for its implementation. Only by completely breaking down this unified system can China escape one-party totalitarian rule, fully mobilize and unleash the initiative, enthusiasm, and creativity of all ethnic groups and regions, fully leverage the unique characteristics and advantages of each region and ethnic group, truly create a new situation where all regions and ethnic groups compete and develop together, and ultimately create a political landscape characterized by social integrity, abundant talent, diverse perspectives, and a flourishing economy.
——To establish a modern democratic society, the old system of unification must be completely dismantled.
Today, I'd like to introduce a new concept to all netizens: "Great Unification." Everyone has heard of "Great Unification," but the Great Unification I'm proposing today is the CCP regime's extreme and absolute application of this concept—its politicization, institutionalization, and socialization.
First, what is "Great Unification"? According to Wikipedia, Great Unification is a concept of national unification in China since the Western Zhou Dynasty, emphasizing the unification of various systems. Examples include unified calendars and laws, unified government decrees, national unity, ethnic unity, unified etiquette, unified weights and measures, and unified writing.
The concept of "unified rule" is a deeply rooted imperial ideology and governing philosophy in Chinese society, with a history of thousands of years. While the national unity, political order, calendar system, etiquette, weights and measures, and written language in the concept of unified rule may have had some progressive significance and a certain degree of timeliness and historical relevance in the backward feudal era, with the advent of democratic politics and the free market economy, unified rule as an ideology has become a shackle that hinders social development and progress.
After the CCP seized state power, in order to maintain the one-party dictatorship and totalitarian rule of the Communist Party, it not only fully inherited the mantle of traditional unification, but also further extreme and absolutized it, transforming it into a political system and social institution for ruling China, turning the traditional concept of "unification" into today's social reality of "unification".
Lü Honglai: "Great unification" is the biggest obstacle to the democratization of Chinese society
The CCP regime's "great unification" is not only about national unification, government orders, etiquette, ethnic unification, weights and measures, and written language, but has also gone to extremes to achieve political unification, economic unification, ideological unification, cultural unification, and propaganda unification. Moreover, the entire country, from top to bottom, must absolutely adhere to the comprehensive and unified leadership of the Communist Party and accept the Communist Party's absolute unified command, unified decision-making, unified deployment, and unified action.
In order to consolidate the CCP's one-party dictatorship and totalitarian rule, today, under the CCP's unified political system, the tentacles of one-party dictatorship and totalitarian rule have extended to all aspects and corners of society, becoming a major political obstacle to China's path toward freedom, democracy, and the rule of law!
More importantly, under the authoritarian rule of the CCP regime, China has entered an era of "great unification." This so-called era of great unification means that unification is no longer merely an ideology or concept, but a real political system and social institution that opposes universal values and is completely opposed to human civilization. It is naked authoritarian rule, which is incomparable to "great unification."
"Great unification" is nothing but naked autocracy and dictatorship; it's the official expression of one-party totalitarian rule, just as robbery is described as "land reform," mass slaughter as "suppressing counter-revolutionaries," and drug production and trafficking as "charcoal burning." Therefore, our opposition to "great unification" today is not merely a matter of thought, ideas, and ideology, but a political struggle between freedom and autocracy, democracy and dictatorship, rule of law and rule of man, civilization and barbarity—a contest between justice and evil. This is the core and essence of the issue.
The forced unification promoted by the CCP regime has caused far more harm to Chinese society than mere unification itself. Under this unified political system, Chinese people have lost their basic human rights, their fundamental personality and dignity. Society has degenerated, politics have become corrupt, and right and wrong have been reversed. For the sake of power and profit, no bottom line has been abandoned.
While I believe the concept of a unified empire is far outdated, it is significantly different from the unified empire promoted by the CCP regime, and the two cannot be compared. In particular, it is unfair for some scholars to attribute the social harm and negative consequences caused by the CCP regime's current unified empire to the traditional concept of a unified empire.
Lü Honglai: To establish a modern democratic society, the great unification must be completely dismantled.
The specific harms of a unified China to the Chinese nation are as follows:
1Great unification is the root of political autocracy and dictatorship: The essence of great unification is political autocracy and dictatorship, which means that the whole country must obey one person or one party. This will inevitably lead to a high concentration of power. The political system of great unification is autocracy and dictatorship, and the society of great unification is an autocracy and dictatorship society.
2. Great unification is the natural enemy of political pluralism, ideological pluralism, and cultural pluralism: To uphold great unification, it is necessary to uphold the unity of politics, ideology, and culture. Because cultural pluralism will inevitably lead to ideological pluralism, and ideological pluralism will inevitably lead to political pluralism, which will endanger great unification. Therefore, if great unification is upheld, there can be no political pluralism, ideological pluralism, or cultural pluralism. It will inevitably lead to a backward society with centralized political power, a single economic model, and a single social structure.
3. Great unification is the pretext for suppressing all political dissidents: To achieve great unification, it is impossible to allow political pluralism, and the existence of political opposition and political dissidents cannot be allowed, because the existence of any political opposition and political dissidents will pose a direct challenge and threat to great unification. Therefore, maintaining great unification becomes the political interface for severely suppressing any political dissidents and political opposition and eliminating political opponents.
4. The deep-seated reason for the formation of a huge bureaucratic privileged class and serious corruption in China today ：is that the large unification leads to excessive concentration of power, which makes it impossible to effectively supervise and restrain power. This inevitably creates a privileged class, resulting in power-money transactions and rent-seeking, which breeds corruption. Since power is greater than the law and power is not effectively supervised and restrained, it ultimately leads to the fact that no official is not corrupt. Therefore, the large unification is the direct reason for the formation of a huge bureaucratic privileged class and serious corruption in China today.
5. The fundamental contradiction between the unified system and the free market economy: Under the unified system, the economy must obey the unified leadership, command, decision-making and deployment of the CCP. This makes it impossible to have a true free market or true economic freedom. What there can be is only bureaucratic capital, government-business market and government-business economy.
6. The deep-seated reason for the widening gap between rich and poor in Chinese society is the great unification: As a superpower with 1.4 billion people, China has vastly different ethnic groups and regions. Each region and ethnic group needs to formulate its own development goals and plans based on its actual situation. When all power is concentrated in the central government, it not only severely restricts the actions of local governments, but also causes resources and wealth to flow to the regions where the interests of the ruling class are concentrated, leading to a further widening of the gap between rich and poor in different regions.
7. Unification is a stumbling block to the establishment of a rule-of-law society with judicial independence: because judicial independence itself requires breaking up unification. The hallmark of a rule-of-law society is equality before the law, requiring those in power to also abide by the law, and the separation of powers: mutual checks and balances. These are all incompatible with unification. Without unification, there can be no true rule-of-law society. To establish a rule-of-law society, it is necessary to completely overthrow unification. Unification is the stumbling block to establishing a rule-of-law society.
8. The Great Unification is an insurmountable barrier to the nationalization of the military: The nationalization of the military means that the military belongs to the state, the military is only loyal to the people and the constitution, and the military must not obey any political party or individual; for today's party army, which is absolutely loyal to the Communist Party, absolutely obeys the Party's command, and takes the execution of the Party's political tasks as its mission, it is an insurmountable barrier. To achieve the nationalization of the military, the Great Unification must be completely broken.
9. Genuine autonomy is impossible under a unified system: Under the rule of the CCP, there are nominally five autonomous regions for ethnic minorities, as well as the Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Regions. However, in reality, none of the five autonomous regions are truly autonomous. All five are under the strict control of the CCP, with CCP-appointed Party secretaries serving as the top leaders of the autonomous regions, i.e., the grassroots governments. They must absolutely obey the unified leadership, command, decision-making, and deployment of the Communist Party. Where is there any ethnic autonomy to speak of ?!
Today, we must not only eradicate the lingering poison of traditional "unified" ideology, but also oppose the CCP's "unified" system and institutions. Because unified rule is nothing but naked autocracy and dictatorship, a shield for its implementation. Only by completely breaking down this unified system can China escape one-party totalitarian rule, fully mobilize and unleash the initiative, enthusiasm, and creativity of all ethnic groups and regions, fully leverage the unique characteristics and advantages of each region and ethnic group, truly create a new situation where all regions and ethnic groups compete and develop together, and ultimately create a political landscape characterized by social integrity, abundant talent, diverse perspectives, and a flourishing economy.
