Chapter 23: A Critical Year

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drove away these guys, and Yuan Yanqian once again embarked on the road of master.

Actually, he hadn't really read through Socialism. He has also admired the author of this book for a long time, but he is not very familiar with it.

One of the things that Mises is most famous for is that he had a good disciple, the author of the well-known must-read book "The Road to Serfdom", and the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, the Austrian-British economist Friedrich-August-von-Hayek.

The life experience and academic career of the master and apprentice confirm the saying that a person's destiny depends not only on personal struggle but also on the historical process.

As an economist and history buff, Yuan Yanqian knew that 1920 was a very important year, and just a month earlier, a pivotal event had taken place in Europe that profoundly affected the course of history: the "miracle of the Vistula".

History has its inevitability, such as the confrontation between the two major blocs of capitalist and socialist countries; But there are also accidents, such as the "miracle of the Vistula" that delayed the real formation of the two blocs for 30 years, and because of the emergence of nuclear weapons, they were only a "cold war" after all, and did not really fight.

In the middle of August of this year, the Soviet Red Army approached Warsaw, and most military experts around the world believed that Poland was certain to lose. If the Red Army breaks through the Warsaw Line, then they will set fire to old Europe, which is already paved with dry wood. It is not impossible that the whole of Europe will be rapidly reddened.

As Churchill, who had not yet become a big fat man, said: "Behind the retreating Polish front, the germ cells and tissues of communism in every town emerged from their hiding places, ready to welcome the birth of a new Soviet republic." ā€

Germany's unemployed workers and veterans of the First World War had organized themselves and were ready to replicate the October Revolution in Berlin; The French people are marching to protest against their government's support for Poland's war effort, and the Paris Commune is about to be repeated; In London, the British Labour Party announced that British workers would never take part in a war with Poland as an ally, and this time don't expect a *** alliance like the anti-French alliance organized by the "European-stirring sticks"; The transport workers in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe refused to transport the arms to Poland, but instead intercepted some of the arms and secretly organized an underground armed group.

Old Europe seems to be a pill for eating a red date, but New Rome is really good in comparison. The railroad workers came up with a very modest "plumb plan" in which they demanded to send their own representatives to participate in the management of the railway; Members of the United Mining Union of America are a little more radical, having voted last year to support the nationalization of mines across the country; In North Dakota and nearby grain-producing states, a nonpartisan coalition of 200,000 farmers emerged, known as the "Agrarian Soviets."

The biggest headache for the American upper class and propertied class is the Industrial-Workers-of-the-World, which is called "the root of all evil." How bad are these guys? Not only did they force the capitalists to implement an eight-hour workday, ban child labor, and provide unemployment benefits...... It is also in tandem all over the world to seize control of global capital!

Whether it is an emperor, a king, a president, a prime minister, a prime minister...... The ruling classes of all countries trembled but were completely at a loss.

At this critical juncture, the Polish commander Pilsudski appeared on the stage with a "clang", and under his command, Pingduzhen Luda/Bo/Bo finally reappeared at the critical moment, and finally took the town of Chilu. (Author's note: Part of the reason why the big/wave/wave jumped so much before World War II that the Soviet Union and Germany, which were almost impossible to join forces, joined hands to carve up Poland.) )

In 1812, Napoleon I was burned by the Great Fire of Moscow, ignited by the Russian general Kutuzov, and the great cause of unifying all of Europe. And one hundred and eight years later, the "Red Napoleon" Tukhachevsky hated the city of Warsaw to let the international communist movement "forever (how far this eternity, the author does not dare to pack a ticket. "The loss of the historical opportunity to liberate all mankind has also given the world's big capitalists a respite. Although they will have to cut their flesh painfully in the future, it is better than being taken away by a wave.

Now that the capitalist powers have become weak chickens to be saved by big waves, the Soviet Union, which is flourishing in the first five-year plan (1928-1932), will fully demonstrate the superiority of socialism in the next nine years compared to the depressed capitalist world.

Although it is difficult for Yuan Yanqian to imagine that he once queued up in front of the US consulate for a visa interview, he did know that in real history, the American people would line up in front of the Soviet Embassy to apply for immigration, and later not only did the literary and artistic circles, cultural circles, academic circles, and even the governments of Western countries be filled with a large number of leftists and red spies. One of the best examples is the "Cambridge Five", these young men are all from British aristocratic families, and they have a bright future and they actively and semi-actively join the KGB as a co-spy.

It was really the era of idealists who were red to purple in their ideals.

This is because although the socialist planned economy has a thousand disadvantages and all kinds of bad, it has only one advantage over the capitalist market economy, that is, the government can take the initiative to create demand, and the key is that as long as the courage is there, the demand can be as great as possible.

Lack of demand or oversupply is really just a problem of capitalism, and the headache of socialism is always shortage, shortage, and shortage, so much so that later the ticket economy became synonymous with the planned economy.

So the liberal economists, who didn't even want the government, were not very popular in the decades that followed, and it was not until more than half a century, especially after the oil crisis of 1973, that they finally lifted the mountain of Keynesianism and finally became the only victors in this academic battle and the political struggle of various interest groups. Of course, this is the case in the mainstream (in fact, it is the West) economics circles, and there is still noise in the non-mainstream (in fact, it is a non-Western country).

Lao Mi just caught up with the front, and he couldn't even mix up with a regular teaching position in the second half of his life; Xiao Ha happened to walk behind, don't look at him after World War II, Churchill dragged Churchill and couldn't even choose the prime minister (author's note: The big fat man appreciated his article very much and quoted it many times in his speech. However, Xiao Ha's name has a "Erma Von" in it, so Churchill's campaign against the handicraft party Attlee insisted that he was a German spy. Later, he seemed to be the standard-bearer of anti-totalitarianism.