Chapter 258: Karl Marx's Seven Commentaries on Treville

The terror of peace and the peace of terror

Since the outbreak of the war between the British and French forces and Russia, I have been following the development of this war with my readers, and I have seen in great detail the endless fighting of the three countries on the Crimean peninsula, and the shameless greed and corruption, terrible insensitivity and astonishing bloodshed that pervade it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

As the siege of the fortress of Sevastopol by the Anglo-French forces began, the sacrifice of the war and the insensitivity of the officers began to reach their peak, and countless Allied soldiers stormed the fortress and died under the drive of the officers, while the suffering they suffered was ignored by their leadership, and the complaints spread from camp to camp along with the plague, and it was only because the situation on the side of the Russians was almost as bad that the soldiers of the coalition army did not collapse.

Recently, Crimea has begun to enter a harsh winter, and although the coalition soldiers have temporarily stopped fighting, they have to endure the wind and snow, free from the horror of artillery fire, but have to continue to face the horrors of nature.

It is not surprising that Emperor Bonaparte, the comical tyrant of the Tuileries Palace, recently declared once again that he had no ill will towards the Russians or any other European nation, and that all he had sought all his life was the peace and prosperity of the nations and peoples of Europe, and that the war was fought only to maintain peace in Europe.

It is really strange that three world powers, three outstanding nations, should pay such a terrible price just for the sake of "keeping peace"!

Napoleon's nephew had his own knack for telling brazen lies so seriously, but he was already bankrupt, and no one except the clowns who received favors from him would cheer at the lies of this liar's hand.

However, his hypocritical appeal also sent a well-orchestrated signal to other countries that he was considering ending the war.

He united with the British to fight a war at such a great cost, in order to gain prestige for himself and consolidate the power he had stolen, and now that he had achieved his despicable purpose to some extent with the victory of the war, then in the nature of a gambler, it was time to think about it and take it.

Thus, whatever the peoples, and the suffering soldiers at the front, may think, that since the sacrifice to death has been sufficient, it is time for the pampered men of their own capital to consider how it should end, and Louis Bonaparte will not have the slightest sincerity in peace, but in order to maintain his rule, he is willing to give Europe a moment of peace, though only a break before yet another terror he has brought upon it.

Recently, His Majesty the Emperor sent his close assistant, Minister Charles de Treville, who was almost as evil as his favorite, to the front to comfort the officers and soldiers on the front.

It is conceivable that Louis Bonaparte, as a man, would have been more than happy to go into the midst of the army and enjoy the shouts of victory and the honor of the conqueror, but now the emperor has surprisingly escaped this honor, and the reason is probably self-evident to the reader.

Emperor Napoleon was never afraid to leave Paris, he led his army to victory in the battlefield again and again, and now this man, who claims to inherit everything from his uncle, does not dare to leave the capital even half a step! This practice is also unequivocal proof of the weakness and unpopularity of this regime.

However, he will not understand that the regime, which is so afraid and oppressive to the people, no matter how cautious and vicious, will not last long.

Charles de Treville's travels must have carried with him the task assigned by his master, to seek peace with the Russians, who, in the present state of affairs, are undoubtedly happy to make peace.

Yes, the Russians were already in a terrible situation, and they had to painstakingly maintain a large army in the southern wastelands and supply them at all times, and this overwhelmed expenditure had brought disaster to the Russian government's finances, and countless lessons from history have taught that for a country, financial disasters can quickly merge with political disasters. And in order to avoid an even greater catastrophe, the plan to pray for peace was already on the Tsar's desk.

Although it was an unspeakable humiliation for the Russians to allow the Anglo-French forces to wreak havoc on their own soil, the once invincible Romanovs were now forced to choose between a terrible war and a humiliating peace, both of which were bitter fruits that would be hard to swallow.

Is this bitter fruit the result of carelessness, or is it caused by accumulated corruption, numbness and mismanagement?

Presumably, after more than half a year of war, readers can now find the answer in their hearts.

There are two types of warfare, one is like a swift thunderbolt, and the superior or more warlike side can knock the enemy to the ground in a decisive battle, and Alexander's conquest is the best of them.

Most wars resemble boxing matches, with both sides fighting hard until one of them collapses from exhaustion – the Rome-Carthaginian war is a masterpiece of this.

It was the latter of the wars that were now being waged, in which the British, French and the Russian Empire consumed their strength and squandered their wealth in the course of a protracted war, and finally decided the winners and losers, and this defeat undoubtedly meant the defeat of national strength and wealth.

Why, then, did the Russian Empire, which was seen as so powerful in spite of its evil and brutality, be defeated on its own doorstep by the often chaotic powers of Western Europe? Why did the Tsar, who seemed to hold absolute power, lose to a layman in the West, and a crook who had only been in power for a few years?

There are inevitable factors in this.

It is often thought that the more a form of government as Tsarist Russia was, the stronger the government, but this is usually wrong, because it ignores the nature of man, which is that whenever there is hope, man seeks a better life for himself, and this hope for a better life often becomes a fatal blow to the shackles of the regime, so that in order to suppress this nature, in order to maintain its supreme power, this autocratic authority will inevitably artificially place the majority of the people in abject poverty or near nothing, Otherwise, it cannot perpetuate itself.

At the same time, in order to consolidate such a form of government, the emperor had to compromise with the most reactionary groups, rely on them to maintain his rule, and then delegate the power of local governance to them.

These two bad practices will inevitably have very bad consequences, to some extent.

First, if the majority of the population were confined to powerless abject poverty, it would be difficult for them to have the same determination to defend everything as citizens would, and at the same time, they would not be fit to be good soldiers, even from a military point of view, because today's soldiers need not only the bravery of a farmer, but also knowledge of geography, mathematics, engineering, and other subjects, all of which are rightly ignored in Russia.

If Napoleon had been a farmer and not taught at the artillery school, would it have been possible for him to achieve the glory that he had done?

Second, the majority of the people were confined to a poor, land bound by serfdom, and could not produce sufficiently prosperous industry and commerce, which in modern times was the cornerstone of the strength of the army.

We are entering a new era, in which the development of industry allows a country to leap forward in strength and arm its army with unprecedented strength and technology, and when an army is at a total disadvantage in terms of equipment and logistical resources, then even if its officers and men are very brave, they will be insulated from victory.

Thirdly, the dependence on the reactionary classes has weakened the power of the state and made it impossible to concentrate the forces necessary to win the war and develop the country.

It is a cycle of evil, in which a rotten regime needs to be maintained by a reactionary class, which inevitably impoverishes and weakens the country, and which becomes more and more corrupt in order to confine its repression to the poor people. As a result, in the face of a powerful foreign enemy, the seemingly powerful fortress could only collapse with a bang.

The tsarist system of government relied on large landowners and aristocrats to maintain its rule, and these people happened to be the most reactionary dregs of the times. In order to maintain their interest in the rent they had extracted for generations, the government had to emphasize the bondage of serfs again and again, while giving them the power to do as they pleased.

This meant that the government could not obtain resources directly from their vast lands, and had to rely on the local self-government. This will inevitably lead to further weakening of the government's financial strength, and then make it impossible for the government to mobilize the country's already vast human and material resources to confront the formidable enemy.

The serfs, who made up the majority of the population, inevitably continued to fall into poverty and ignorance and oppression, and they could not enjoy the glory of modernity, and naturally they could not contribute to the industrialization and modernization of the country.

Therefore, the seemingly powerful tsarist government became a clay-foot giant who was simply unable to mobilize most of the country's resources, and this is the bitter fruit of their own brewing.

Therefore, we can just see that it is precisely because of the superior position of industrial technology that Britain and France can mobilize a large number of the latest warships, so that the Russians have to face the dilemma of being completely blocked by the British and French navies at their doorstep; It is precisely because of the superiority in industrial strength that the British and French armies can replace the latest guns in the army on a large scale to suppress the Russian army; It was precisely because of their resource superiority that Britain and France were able to maintain a large army in the Crimea more easily than the Russians, and they were victorious.

This is the reason why the Qing Dynasty was easily defeated by the British Expeditionary Force, and why the Russian Empire was defeated by the Anglo-French forces.

Britain and France did not win the war in the moorland, on the contrary, they won in the rumbling black smoke of the exchanges in London and Paris, in the shipyards of Portsmouth and Marseille, and in those factories in Manchester and Giverny.

There is no doubt that this is a victory for more advanced civilizations over backward civilizations, although now the weapons of advanced civilizations are in the hands of a group of extremely dangerous bad guys. And the most important of all this is to change the entire structure of the productive forces and to free Russia from the hands of the most reactionary classes.

If the Russians did not modernize their reforms, the outcome would not change even if they were to acquire weapons as advanced as their British and French counterparts.

Although all the information we have received so far proves that the Russian officers and soldiers are very brave, at least as brave as their opponents, in modern warfare it is not enough to be brave - in a sense, these brave soldiers have been betrayed by the whole Tsar and the Tsarist government, and it is this regime that now seems absurd that even if they fight at their doorstep, they are not as equipped and provided as the invaders who come to their door.

The sooner such a regime is abandoned, the sooner the Russians will be saved from the humiliation and fear of being defeated by a strong enemy, there is no doubt about it.

In the meantime, let's turn our gaze back to the West.

At the moment, it is clear that Louis Bonaparte and his courtiers were more worried about the country than abroad.

By luck and cunning, they pulled the British into allies, and with their assistance they were defeating Russia, and they got the glory that was not originally theirs.

And such a group of people, will they stop their steps?

No, there is no way they can stop. Gamblers never stop their gambling, and bystanders don't allow them to stop.

Bonaparte's military regime, since it was so fearful of the people, that they could only continue to beg for the defense of the soldiers, and the warlords, who had already tasted the smoke of gunpowder, would not continue to be intoxicated with the honor and nobility of war?

Beneath their glamorous exterior, their bodies are vicious and corrupt in their bones, and their lucky victories have further encouraged the adventurous spirit of this group, and they will repeat this experience again and again until they have achieved a humiliating defeat and exit.

Charles de Treville may have gone to the Crimea with a message of peace, but the next war will be in their minds, and in a few years another terror will befall another corner of the continent! Progress-loving people of all countries must unite against such a monstrous regime, and only in this way can they be stopped.

France, a great and resilient and creative country with an outstanding civilization, has become the sword of Damocles stolen from heaven by a group of terrible careerists to sanction Europe. If they do not unite as soon as possible and take the sword of evil away from this group of crooks and villains, then the Europeans will pay the price of blood and fire for their insensitivity!