Communist Party general secretary Hu Jintao is definitely forgetting Mao’s admonition to think of the class struggle every minute. Hu wants to build a “harmonious socialist society”, basically in 15 years time, by 2020.
The concept of a harmonious society is very much Confucian, everybody should know his place, act accordingly and everything will turn out fine. Well, that’s rather far removed from today’s China. Harmony is impossible to attain in a class society, whether you think about class struggle every minute or not.
Hu Jintao’s measures, which should lead to this harmonious society on the other hand are very recommendable. Here we go!
Creating a social security system covering everybody, perfecting the legal system, expanding democracy, defending human rights, narrowing the wealth gap, increasing employment, improving the government’s public service, promoting moral standards, securing public order, protecting the environment, developing education, fighting corruption, constructing a clean government, pursuing social harmony, stressing fairness, listening to people’s grievances, stimulating rural development, aiming for sustainable growth, saving energy, encouraging domestic demand, balancing regional development or to sum it up, build a democratic society under the rule of law, a society based on equality and justice, an honest and caring society, and a stable, vigorous and orderly society in which humans live in harmony with nature.
Got that? Well, try memorizing the above paragraph by heart :-)
A harmonious society may never be realized, but if the measures taken to pursue that ephemeral vision improve Chinese society, so much the better.
And you can definitely forget about a harmonious world as long as the White House exists…
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