From Chief to Ball

Forerunners always have a naive side and their own flaws, but it is this naivety and flaws today that give future generations the opportunity to mock their naivety.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the one sitting in the middle is an emerging and most vulnerable political force.

The internal members are diverse.There are philanthropists out of sympathy, those at the bottom who pin their hopes on the upper-level charity, some young upper-level people who reflect on various injustices today, skilled artisans who lack capital, students in school, and all kinds of utopianism, who try to conspire with assassination Such methods directly promote the establishment of anarchic and free extremists in a county.

These people are united by the idea of ​​"doing small and beneficial things first, while discussing the future", and because the number is small, there has not yet been a huge internal division.

Owner farmers have no interest in this party, old guilds and bureaucratic aristocrats oppose it, mine owners and the existing bureaucratic bourgeoisie hate it, petty bourgeois and skilled craftsmen who have experienced years of apprenticeships only sympathize but do not support it.

The real basics, those lowest-level employees who don't need years of apprenticeship, are still very few in number and have no strength of their own.In the same way, the nascent industrial bourgeoisie as a twin is rarer, with smaller political rights and fewer people.

Just like those sitting on the left and sitting in the middle today, they will stand together for a long time and unite to fight against the group of people who are conservative or even reactionary.

These two forces, which will become the mainstream and the basis of contradictions in the future, are naturally united at this time, first fighting for bourgeois freedom and democracy, and then parting ways.

At that time, those who sit on the left will promise that the employees will help them get what they want, and promise to give the employees what they want after they get their rights.As for whether to give or not, that is another matter. When we reach that step, it has already proved that we have entered a new era.

Every time the left side grows by one point, dozens or even hundreds of times of hired workers will become supporters in the middle.

Small workshop owners, handicraftsmen, and self-cultivating farmers, they will naturally stand on the right at this time, conservatively opposing big industry, large workshops, hydraulic machinery, and large farms.

They need the old era to maintain their survival, and even try to go back... However, they will be ruthlessly annihilated in the end.Either become a workshop owner, or become a poor hired laborer, so that they can change their positions and support what they should support.

The task at this stage is to help the emerging bourgeoisie on the left who support the free market win, not to go beyond the era at this time.

We need to do things in stages, so that at this stage, the two groups of people who are in dire straits can stand together.After success, laissez-faire and freedom became the mainstream of the times, that is, after it became the conservatism and tradition of the times, those who sit on the left will naturally sit on the right.

Radical at this time is conservative in the future, just look at what is the mainstream.Only the future that sits in the middle now is still in the middle, but the radicalism and conservativeness in the future are different from the present, and the main contradiction in the future is also different from the present.

In the long run, the goals of the left and the middle are the same: to curb bureaucratic capital, oppose plutocratic politics, eliminate handicrafts, oppose guilds, capital freedom under the guise of freedom, amend laws, reorganize the council, and determine the ideology of freedom and equality And so on.

In the short term, it is also a split among the group of people sitting in the middle.Some moral citizens with utopianism and handicrafts as the main body will stand against the machine revolution; some who believe in the goodness of human nature will unconditionally compromise with those on the left; the anarchist public extremists will despise this place for not being radical enough and leave to form a party; After getting out of the fog, some people will turn right quickly, and racial or nationalism will rise rapidly, demanding stability so as to facilitate the acquisition of overseas land benefits.

Ordinarily, Chen Jian should sit firmly on the left at this time, but now the group on the left is a bit ugly, and it is easy to be seized by the elements of the old era to attack, and it is easy to confuse the hired class to retreat.

This requires some people to stand up and use the vision of defending the bourgeoisie to eliminate some ills and construct the morality of the new era, so as to ensure the survival of bourgeois society and prevent being attacked by conservative and reactionary forces.

Economics, philanthropy, humanitarianism, labor environment improvement, interest legislation petitions, charitable organizations, alcohol and gambling learning science associations, Marist sentiments, etc., use improved methods to fill in the moral vacuum of the new era in advance-this is exactly It's what Chen Jian is doing.

Get out this kind of comforting thing, so as to prevent hired workers from smashing machines, supporting utopias, supporting regression to the level of land, and guild alliances opposing innovation and free competition.At the same time, it also dresses up for the new class who don't know how to put on makeup, so as not to be criticized by others.

In other words, it is to tell the employees as much as possible: the bourgeoisie is just, and everything they do is for the better life of the employees.

To fight for the bourgeoisie is to hire yourself for your own sake.

When the twins of capital have not yet occupied an absolute dominant position, this kind of propaganda is progressive and united.

Maybe in the future this kind of argument is just to avoid self-destruction, but now it is to prevent being wiped out by the reactionary old forces.

To fight for the short-term goals and interests of the working class, but also to represent the future.The short-term is to help the bourgeoisie establish its rule; the long-term is to propagate, debate, research and sort out theories, and complete its own liberation with the help of the material and political conditions after the bourgeois rule.

This is not contradictory. On the contrary, we should unite all those who can unite and try to overthrow the remnants of the old system.First reach the peak of human alienation, and drag all the small farmers and handicraftsmen into the "free" forced labor that is forced to survive, and it is difficult to survive without labor, and then take the second step.

This is roughly the current internal and external situation. Apart from nationalism, various trends of thought have emerged, and the old-era issues still have the upper hand, but the problems of the new era have emerged, but they have not yet reached the point of becoming mainstream contradictions.

Chen Jian looked up at the clock in front of him, and finally people proposed to discuss the fourth topic - if everyone is eligible to participate in politics and have the right to vote, will it cause the vast majority of the poor to be voted by the majority? When it comes to depriving minorities of the right to own property in name, whether it is reasonable to require real estate and property restrictions for voting rights--Chen Jian gave another proposal.

"It's too late today, and we have a long time to come. Let's go back and rest first, think about what we discussed today, and then think about what we will discuss in the next ten days. For a group of three or five people you know well, you should first decide what to do in the next ten days." Discuss things, and then gather them together, pick out three or four topics that everyone is most interested in, make a decision ten days in advance, and make preparations."

"At that time, I will go to the school, not the banquet here. Not to mention preparing words and thoughts in advance, at least the water to moisten the throat must be prepared or the person who is responsible for logistics support must be selected."

It was only then that everyone noticed that it was already the middle of the night, and it was okay not to mention, but they were really sleepy.

So they stood up and got to know each other, greeted each other, and then dispersed.

Chen Jian hopped to Lan Qi's side and took back his boots. The two smiled normally and said nothing more, leaving each other's backs and saying goodbye.

Chapter 1 General Situation

After returning, Chen Jian and others met and decided to sum up everyone's speeches tonight.This was an internal decision, and Chen Jian naturally had to implement it, so he lit candles and exchanged some of the things they copied with each other, or recalled some things that were spoken too fast and were not recorded.

Hu Lin fiddled with the candles, and said to six or seven people who were tidying up, including Chen Jian: "Everyone, what are we arguing and refuting now?"

Qiao Tiexin, who had a falling out with his younger brother and family, performed well in promoting safety lights in the Mincheng Coal Mine, and was elected as a member of the party's internal and external liaison committee, flipped through the papers he was sorting out and said, "From my point of view, the issues discussed tonight There are a lot of things, I just say what I can understand. That is, the generation of wealth was discussed at night. Is the total wealth of society increasing? Or is there only so much total wealth that is fixed. Wealth comes from land? Or from labor ?”

"After all, this is a discussion that has caused huge differences within us. What was discussed tonight is just a superficial discussion, and we can discuss it slowly in the future. I firmly believe that our internal thinking is correct and will gain the support of more people."

"And these things are the basis of many of our ideas, including the voting rights of real estate restrictions and craftsman voting rights. I think without these things as a basis, some requirements are rootless."

"If wealth comes from land instead of labor, then many of our demands and changes will become unreasonable."

"It's like knowing the cause of a gas explosion in a coal mine before we can find a way to prevent the explosion. I think there must be a law in wealth and economy. As long as you find it and use rational reasoning according to this law, you can always find a way that is right for all. There is a way for everyone to benefit.”

Everyone nodded in agreement.Several people talked about it from different angles, and Chen Jian finally asked Hu Lin, "Brother Zhugan, what do you think?"

"I think what everyone said makes sense. You know, I studied law and became a lawyer. From my point of view, we are discussing two things."

"One is to find a basis for the big laws and regulations we made a long time ago. Just as we know the existence of big laws and regulations from birth, and many of them were set at the beginning of the founding of the country and are not allowed to be changed. This has become a habit But now, we need to explore why this is so, and give an explanation from the perspective of freedom, equality or universal love to prove its rationality."

"The second thing, I think we are discussing which laws and regulations are out of date, which are lacking in the past and have not been clearly stipulated, which are contradictory to the connotation of the big laws and regulations, and which ones need to be revised and added. of, deleted, repealed, definite..."

"I think what Chen Jian said is right. This kind of thing is definitely not something that can be debated in a few years, maybe ten years or 20 years. This is the direction we have to work hard, and while working hard, we should practice it based on the ideas we agree with. .”

"We don't have to propose it. As long as the most basic things are recognized and agreed by more people, they will naturally be revised. I think this is the case. If you don't modify it, it will be contrary to what everyone agrees on. , then there will naturally be people who will object.”

When Hu Lin said this, he suddenly asked: "Chen Jian, what do you think of these people who sat apart today? We agreed to let them maintain a close relationship with us temporarily, and gradually win or attract some people to join. But some people It is completely contrary to our thinking, why should we help them build an organization and let them have a circle to improve their ideas? For example, those who sit on the right are completely opposed to any changes."

Chen Jian said with a smile: "Everything is a person with a golden crown on his head and shit on his buttocks. We are A and they are B. To make more people accept A, in addition to criticizing B positively, there is another more useful way."

"That is to support and even cultivate a group of irrational people who defend and advocate everything about B. Even if it is the shit behind the butt, they will argue that the smell is fragrant. There are too many arguments, although some people believe it is true It is fragrant, but there are more people who will hate and even oppose the golden crown on B's body. Because those who sing praises desperately will smear their own shit on the golden crown."

"They have only two options, either admit that it's shit, or try to prove that shit smells good. The problem is that now we and people on the left think that change is needed, so those who don't support any change have to prove that shit smells good .And the shit on us... There is no way to reflect it for the time being, unless it is really changed according to us or those on the left. But again, after the reform, there will naturally be new ideas to stare at the shit on us, but But it won't be the group of them sitting on the right, because they can't solve it."

Everyone thought about it for a while, and then they all laughed, and one of them said: "People on the stage will always be stared at by the audience off the stage. There is no solution to this."

Another person also said: "If this is the case, in fact, we only need a supervisory power, and we will never be on stage. We just want to fight for a supervisory power. This way we will never get a little shit on us."

"That's just talking about the problem without taking responsibility. I usually sit back and criticize, and when something goes wrong, I say that I don't know what to do, but I feel that it is not good to do so. What's the use?"

"But someone still needs to supervise. Therefore, someone needs to shoulder the supervision power and the responsibility of Yushitai."

"These are two concepts. This is for some things that are regulated by law, not specific policies. For example, if an official seeks personal gain, this can be monitored. But if there is a problem with the policy, what should we do? If you don’t dare to take responsibility, you won’t make mistakes, and you won’t get shit on your body, but what’s the use?”

"I think some responsibilities should be separated."

"But that will hinder each other, and will nothing be done?"

"From this point of view, there is nothing wrong with saintly politics?"