Up to 1830, the balance of trade being continually in favour of the Chinese, there existed an uninterrupted importation of silver from India, Britain and the United States into China. Since 1833, and especially since 1840, the export of silver from China to India has become almost exhausting for the Celestial Empire. Hence the strong decrees of the Emperor against the opium trade, responded to by still stronger resistance to his measures. Besides this immediate economical consequence, the bribery connected with opium smuggling has entirely demoralized the Chinese State officers in the Southern provinces. Just as the Emperor was wont to be considered the father of all China, so his officers were looked upon as sustaining the paternal relation to their respective districts. But this patriarchal authority, the only moral link embracing the vast machinery of the State, has gradually been corroded by the corruption of those officers, who have made great gains by conniving at opium smuggling. This has occurred principally in the same Southern provinces where the rebellion commenced. It is almost needless to observe that, in the same measure in which opium has obtained the sovereignty over the Chinese, the Emperor and his staff of pedantic mandarins have become dispossessed of their own sovereignty. It would seem as though history had first to make this whole people drunk before it could rouse them out of their hereditary stupidity.
我倒是很想讨教某些别有用心的人:一个工人,有点积蓄不去读夜校,不去购买一些高营养的食品,而是习惯性地把钱花在讨老婆生孩子,甚至是花在找小姐发泄兽语和酗酒上,那么如果他不从这种一贯愚蠢的习性中摆脱出来,难道我们应该说是妓女犯罪勾引他或者是酒精犯错麻醉了他?难道我们说他这种生活习惯愚蠢就是说他本人天生愚蠢吗?
再者:我们今天,广大农村地区依然是流行非要生到男孩才罢休的风俗,即便自家的资源、财产、田地都不足以支撑养活3个女孩。难道我们要说这是国家分给土地太少了?请问多少需要多少土地能满足无穷的繁殖欲?这种世代相传的习俗难道不用愚蠢还要用明智来形容?
当马克思分析鸦片为什么没有成为1830~1840年西方主流社会腐败的麻醉剂,却成为了导致中国沦为殖民地的原因时,他深刻看到,如果不是满清政府的自身腐败和愚民政策,那么鸦片本身只是鸦片而已。恰恰是中国几百乃至几千年愚蠢的封建专制制度导致了中国在鸦片战争中失败。……
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