英語検定ライティング準１級（第435回）

社会主義「結果平等はモラルが低下する話」

1970年代後半に私たちはまだ中学生だった。社会のテストで人民公社という中国の経済政策を書き込む問題があった。その頃は文化大革命が終結したはずだったが社会のテストでは堂々と結局は失敗する政治システムを書くように出題されていた。
In the late 1970’s, we were junior high school students.
We were required to write the word “People’s Commune” into the answer blank when we took the social studies’ exams and we asked what China’s organization in the villages should be, but none of us precisely understood its meanings because it was evaluated highly in Japan.
In those days, China’s Cultural Revolution had ended, but we had to write the five Chinese characters in the test, which failed to make it, instead, the catastrophic political errors, which demonstrated that the communism fails to outweigh the capitalism, but its details about the reason that the former couldn’t be successful wasn’t something indispensable in the exams, and we memorized only its incidents’ names because we wanted to get high scores.

自然災害で田畑がピンチに陥っても農民はその危機的状況を放置していた。なぜなら自分の土地ではなくて国のものだから。自分のものは重要だが他者のものはどうでもいいのが結論だ。彼らの共有財産に対する負の姿勢は大飢饉を産むことになる。
Various natural disasters hit on the rice and vegetables fields, which brought numerous farmers into the deadly, lethal, critical, threatening and frightening situations.
However, they left these fields as they were because they weren’t their properties, in fact, these fields were owned and managed by the government, simultaneously, which enabled them to be lazy without being profitable.
Others’ belongings is something trivial and unimportant.
As a result, their attitudes towards common properties made negative contributions to their neighborhoods, in conclusion, where they suffered from terrible disastrous famines and numerous people starved to death, he says.

資本主義の世界では努力と才能と運命で成り上がることができる。その一方で共産主義の世界ではサボる方が頑張ることよりもいい。もらえるものが同じなら面倒なことは極力避けて通りたい。資本主義の世界でも公務員だとシステムは社会主義だ。
In the capitalism world, we could become a millionaire or someone successful with efforts, talents and fortunes.
On the other hand, in the communism world, not to make efforts and not to take pains should outweigh someone enthusiastic towards their duties and their work, he says.
The former became more profitable than the latter.
When our incomes and salaries are the same, we want to avoid something burdensome and troublesome because such duties fail to make us be productive and profitable.
To our regret, in the official servants’ businesses, such workplaces exist, where someone lazy tend to win the executive position with something unpersuasive, he says.