A speech against money worship

Shakespeare said, "Money can turn black into white, ugliness into beauty, cowards into warriors …". This famous saying of the master is a wonderful irony of money worship. Zeng Guangxian said in his article: "There is truth if you have money, but it is not true if you have no money." This is also a whipping of the evil of money.

Now, it's time for me to save my strength without hesitation. Really, I really understand.

I remember someone saying that you can't make yourself too comfortable.

Yes, let yourself taste bitter when you are young, and it will be more delicious when you look back later. ...

The meaning of money worship

money worship

The so-called money worship is the thought and behavior of blindly worshipping money, taking the value of money as the highest value, and all values should be subordinate to the value of money.

Money worship is an ideological and moral concept of money first, which holds that money is not only omnipotent, but also the standard to measure all behaviors. People who hold the concept of money worship believe that "in society, you can't do anything without money" and "money is supreme". These values are considered to stem from the idea that capitalism encourages human beings to pursue self-interest.

Money worship often causes a lot of criticism, especially regarded by many conservatives as one of the symbols of materialism and moral decay in modern society.

Critics believe that money worshippers emphasize the importance of money so much that they become mercenary, and often only see the surface of many things, but fail to see the extreme emptiness of their connotation and spiritual level; However, some people think that the pursuit of a better and richer life is the nature of all human beings, and money worship is only a reflection of this nature in the atmosphere of modern capitalist society.

The manifestation of money worship

In the economic field

For example, some people separate economic benefits from social benefits and pursue economic benefits unilaterally; Some regions and departments sacrifice the overall interests and long-term interests of the country and the nation for the benefit of departments and units. What's more, chasing money and interests by hook or by crook not only ignores social morality, tramples on market norms, but even endangers the life safety of others, such as fraud and black-box operation in the field of financial securities; Fake and shoddy products in food, medicine, real estate, building materials and other fields ...

In the political field

A small number of leading cadres of the ruling party regard power as a means to seek money, which leads to corruption such as corruption and bribery, trading in power and money, and cheating on officials.

For example, some abuse power for personal gain, compete with the people, put the interests of small groups, departments and units above the interests of the masses, collect fees at will, raise funds at will, apportion them at will, infringe on the interests of the masses, and even enrich themselves; Some people crave enjoyment, eat and drink, squander money, and even degenerate ... these behaviors directly contribute to the proliferation of money worship.

In the field of culture

Mainly manifested in: some cultural activities are simply commercialized; Some cultural workers lack social responsibility; Some media blindly cater to vulgar tastes for the so-called market share, and even condone the wrong things to March in the market; Some scholars write books just to evaluate professional titles, gain capital and strive for fame and fortune. Some even rely on certain capital to make money and are willing to speak for it. ...

The origin of money worship

The spread of money worship has both ideological roots and social and historical roots.

The appearance of money worship is related to the long-term influence of feudal culture in China. Generally speaking, the mainstream of China's traditional culture is to despise interests and be ashamed of money. In the choice of justice and benefit, justice is always the first, and it advocates giving up life for justice and giving up life for justice. However, China's traditional culture has another side. Some people openly advocate egoism and hedonism, such as Yang Zhu in the Spring and Autumn Period, who publicly preached that "every penny is beneficial to the world, not for the world".

There are also folk sayings that "people die for wealth, birds die for food", "people don't do it for themselves, and the devil takes the hindmost" and "money makes the mare go". These ideas have always been believed by the ruling class in the real life of feudal society. It must be noted that after the founding of New China, these decadent, declining and negative thoughts have not completely disappeared. With the reform and opening up and the development of market economy, they reappear and are sought after by some people.

Money worship originated in feudal society, but it really became popular after capitalism came into being. Capitalism and money worship are like twin sisters, or money worship is an indelible cancer attached to capitalism. The reason why money worship prevails in capitalism is because the nature of the bourgeoisie (actually the nature of capital) is to accumulate wealth endlessly and pursue the appreciation of capital; Money, as the embodiment of wealth, can control everything in capitalist society.

It should be said that some people of insight in the west have long recognized the harm of money worship and criticized it, but it has not been eliminated, and it is impossible to eliminate it. After the reform and opening up, with the opening up of the country, these decadent ideas were introduced at the same time as capital, technology and excellent cultural achievements.

From the social and historical roots, the breeding of money worship is related to the imperfect rules of market economy. Establishing a socialist market economic system is the only way for China's economic development and social progress, which is conducive to further exerting the superiority of socialism. But at the same time, the weaknesses and negative aspects of the market economy itself will also be reflected in spiritual life.

Market economy has its own operating rules: first, market subjects should follow the principle of equivalent exchange in economic activities; Second, market subjects should pursue the maximization of interests or profits in economic activities.

At the same time, the market economy is still a kind of "consumption economy", relying on consumer-led production and consumption to drive the economy. The results are as follows: on the one hand, material interests and material wealth play an outstanding role in promoting economic and social development, which may induce people's profit-seeking behavior and stimulate people's desire for things or money, thus breeding excessive worship of money and leading to "everything depends on money."

On the other hand, "attaching importance to money" extends from the economic field to all fields of social life, and everything should be exchanged at equal value. All interpersonal and social relationships are regarded as monetary benefits. For example, when someone falls into the water, weigh the pros and cons before saving people; When you see a gangster robbing, you should negotiate the price first, then catch the gangster, and so on.

In addition, money worship is easy to appear under the condition of market economy, which is also related to the symbolization of wealth and economic activities. Market economy is inseparable from commodity exchange, and commodity exchange is inseparable from currency. As an intermediary, money has become the embodiment of wealth and commodities and the representative of universal values. With money, it seems that you can buy everything and have everything. This easily makes people have the illusion that money is everything, makes people worship money and money, induces people to pursue and possess money infinitely, and leads to money worship.

Judging from the appearance of money worship, money worship is ostensibly a worship of money, but behind this worship is actually hedonism and extreme individualism. A hedonist and extremely selfish person is bound to show money worship under the condition of market economy.

The harm of money worship

Money worship is very harmful. From the perspective of human development, money worship deviates from people's all-round development, deprives people of the richness of their essence, and makes people slaves of money; From the social point of view, the society where money worship prevails must be a society with materialistic desires, indifference, intrigue and self-fear, and a society with moral decay and lack of faith.

If money worship is rampant in the economic field, it will make the economic order fall into chaos, lose credibility, make honest work unrewarded, and make swindlers and blackmailers popular; If money worship prevails in the political field, the ruling party and government will lose the trust and support of the broad masses of the people, and the political power of the ruling party will be in danger of losing; If money is paramount in the cultural field, the whole society will have no spiritual support and cohesion, and social development will lose its meaning and value.

Ways to eliminate money worship

Scientific Outlook on Development must be established and implemented.

Judging from the emergence of money worship, money worship is the product of the development of human society to a certain stage and the product of the development of productive forces to a certain level and stage.

Therefore, to fundamentally eliminate money worship, we must persist in taking economic construction as the center and vigorously develop productive forces. However, the fundamental purpose of developing productive forces is to improve people's living standards and promote people's all-round development, which requires us to firmly establish and fully implement the Scientific Outlook on Development, and make it clear that development is not a unilateral improvement of economic indicators, but a comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development.

We must vigorously strengthen the construction of political civilization.

To eliminate money worship, we must first eliminate money worship among leading cadres of the ruling party. The power of example is infinite. Party member leading cadres of the ruling party should be practitioners of advanced morality and leaders of social moral progress. To eliminate the concept of money worship among leading cadres, it is necessary not only to carry out ideological and moral education, but also to eradicate the soil where money worship arises from the system

We must vigorously strengthen the construction of spiritual civilization.

Money worship is a decadent idea. To eliminate it, we must establish a noble pursuit of value in the whole society and vigorously strengthen the construction of spiritual civilization. News media carry forward the main theme and advocate diversity. Can't be kitsch, can't cater to low tastes.

It is necessary to publicize accumulated, healthy and progressive thoughts and behaviors, and to publicize thoughts and behaviors that are conducive to building a well-off society in an all-round way; We should have a strong sense of social responsibility and mission, be brave and good at criticizing those decadent world outlook, outlook on life and values, and purify the social air and living environment.

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