These Eight Types of Thought Should Be Swept into History’s Trash Bin

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These Eight Types of Thought Should Be Swept into History’s Trash Bin

Xuefeng

August 21, 2025

The reality we see today is the fruit of the ideas and concepts humanity has carried through history.

If our present world were peaceful and auspicious, where people lived securely, smiled freely, and held hope and confidence for the future, then continuing with present thoughts and concepts would be correct.

But if our world is restless, filled with crisis, anxiety, fear, and despair, then this proves the prevailing thoughts are wrong, and they must be swept into history’s trash bin.

1.  Patriotism: All patriotic thought obstructs the forward progress of humanity’s civilization. Those who loudly glorify patriotism are, in truth, a reactionary force against history. Such ideas must be discarded.

2.  Marriage and the Nuclear Family: The mindset, programs, and systems of marriage and the small family hinder social development and the liberation of individuality. To cling to marriage and family as sacred is to cling to the foot-binding cloths of a bygone age. These thoughts belong in the trash.

3.  Money: Money is the devil’s tool, bait used to lure humans into ghostly realms. Once society elevates money as supreme, abandoning the pursuit of an ideal society, it falls into a condition more brutal than the wild. Today, without money one cannot even move a step—this is against the intention of the Greatest Creator. Therefore, the ideology of money must be swept away.

4.  Private Property: In humanity’s current stage, the idea that “private property is sacred and inviolable” has served a role. But to enter advanced civilization, this idea must be abandoned. Otherwise, humans can never experience the paradise of “owning nothing, yet possessing everything.” Let it be clear: all forms of violation—whether of another’s home, body, dignity, rights, or property—are barbaric and inhumane. What I stress is this: the very concept of “private property” is a catalyst for humanity’s fall.

5.  Anti-Utopian and Anti-Communist Thought: Such ideas must also be discarded. Hayek’s denial of utopia is baseless; the Soviet Union was not a utopia, nor are socialism and planned economies utopia. Utopia is humanity’s hope for a beautiful life, and the program that guides its realization. To strangle this yearning is itself a crime. Hayek never lived in utopia—like one who has never tasted watermelon, how could he know whether it is sweet or bitter? As for communism, the misunderstandings are outrageous. True communism is the Great Harmony, where all citizens of Earth share sunlight, air, water, and resources peacefully and harmoniously. Is this wrong? Is it better that some eat without labor until bloated, while others toil and still go hungry? Marx’s theory was incomplete and shallow. It cannot define true communism, nor can Lenin or Mao’s practices be taken as its realization.

6.  Constitutions and Laws: All constitutions, laws, regulations, and institutional codes throughout human history must be swept into the trash. Why? Because laws today are already abundant and detailed, from national constitutions to the UN Charter and human rights acts. Yet reality remains unsatisfactory. Ask the people—are they content? If most say yes, the laws are right; if not, the laws are flawed. Would discarding laws throw humanity back to the savage age? Absolutely not. For I have prepared a complete set of new values, and a program for production and life. When the human soul is purified, laws are unnecessary; without purification, no amount of legislation can solve the root problem.

7.  National Borders: The very idea of borders must be discarded. Goods should flow freely, and people should move freely. Borders serve only the tiny few in power; they offer nothing to the common people.

8.  Competition: The thought of competition must be swept away. The essence of competition is this: whoever is clever, whoever holds power, whoever has the strongest fist, whoever dares to walk the gray areas—such a person seizes the high ground, enjoys the best of everything, and rules from above with arrogance. In essence, it is survival of the fittest—but in the end, there are no winners, only losers. Even after a hundred years of life, one must keep struggling, guarding one’s place, fearing rivals who may surpass them overnight. Yet economies do not require competition to prosper. By awakening truth, goodness, beauty, love, faith, and sincerity within human nature, society can flourish and provide for all, without want or worry.

Readers of this message, do not be angry, do not argue. If you believe your way is right, follow it, and be happy. If you are not happy, then you are surely less wise than I.