: Peasant Consciousness and Bourgeois Consciousness: Peasant Consciousness and Bourgeois Consciousness

Author: Zhao Zhongyue
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: Selfish and profit-driven peasant consciousness, a consciousness that harbors filth and corruption, eventually converging into repulsive states: flattery, gloating, petty greed, harming others for personal gain, gossiping, kicking those who fall, forgetting loyalty for profit, being envious, servile and fawning, saying nice things to one's face while scheming behind one's back.
Peasant consciousness and petty bourgeois consciousness are like two infinitely harmful yet stubborn viruses, which have posed a strong obstacle to the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and pose a corrosive threat to its very foundation. They not only hinder the development of productivity but, more dangerously, with their common origin, they continuously merge and spread, severely deteriorating normal human relationships and corrupting the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. The resulting hypocrisy and ugliness are appalling.
They will spread from generation to generation—if we pay no attention; they will poison us at every moment—if we ignore them. Peasant consciousness and petty bourgeois consciousness will ultimately endanger the happiness of every one of us. Improving the quality of the entire nation must start with examining these two types of consciousness. Now, how to recognize, eliminate, resist, and ultimately resolve these two types of consciousness has become an important issue that every Chinese person cannot avoid.