The sound of knocking leather boots on the table brought Jian Chen's thoughts back to the party. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

I don't know who spoke in front of the host, which attracted a burst of boos below, and it was easy to be suppressed by the sound of leather boots beating.

Jian Chen didn't know what the person had just said, but he believed that there were still a few people of all kinds here today. Many people here deviate from their buttocks, but the vast majority of people will still defend the interests of their own class, and they can't pin their hopes on this group to selflessly learn from Lei Feng to do good deeds, or they still have to rely on interests, let alone think that because they flicker a few words and have the same roots and origins with the ethnic groups east of the sea, they can be united in China, and it is a big mistake to think like that.

looked at the things he had scribbled on the desk, picked them up and crumpled them vigorously, quietly stuffed them into his sleeve pockets, and continued to pretend to listen to these people's debates and quarrels very seriously.

Many of the people sitting here are also gradually getting into the state, each thinking about the thoughts in the words of the person who spoke in front of them, pondering the loopholes in them, and summarizing their own words.

Originally, a drinking party or banquet was not as tempting as the young people's ideological confrontation.

The discussion continued into the night, and everyone still did not get tired, and the topic had begun to be the third one.

All kinds of ideas bloom here, and there are some sobering words at the same time as naïve.

Everyone wants to convince others, and then realizes that one person is too weak, so they start looking for their supporters in the halls, and every time they find that the people who support their ideas are really mostly sitting next to them.

Nowadays the format has become very interesting, and when the person sitting on the right speaks, often the person on the left and in the center will disagree. When the people on the left speak, the people in the middle can give some support, and even support the basic concepts of those on the left under certain premises.

A lot of things start with gossip or debate. The weapon of criticism cannot replace the weapon of criticism, but when the same weapon of criticism is known to more people, it will become a force and a weapon.

All of this is the result of tradition and theories that were completely obsolete hundreds of years ago. The crude things left over from hundreds of years ago that are in keeping with the times are difficult to explain today's economy and new contradictions.

It is time to continue to uphold the republican tradition and at the same time find a theory to support the new era, relying on these people and more people now, but not on these people and more people at this time, which can only wait for later.

In times of social transformation, there will always be various currents of thought and speculation, especially when there is a belief that there will be permanent peace in the future, that the world will be so big, that the gap between rich and poor is getting worse and faster than before, that new machines and new technologies are in conflict with the inherent guilds and customary systems.

The forerunners always have a childish side and their own flaws, but it is this kind of naivety and flaws that give future generations the opportunity to mock their naivety.

In today's situation, sitting in the middle is an emerging and most fragile political force.

The internal members are varied. There are sympathetic philanthropists, there are the lowest strata who hope for alms from above, there are the young elites who reflect on the injustices of the day, skilled craftsmen who lack capital, current students, and all kinds of utopian extremists who try to directly promote the establishment of anarcho-free counties by means of assassination plots.

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

The yeoman peasants had no interest in this party, the old guilds and the bureaucratic aristocracy were opposed, the mine owners and the pre-existing bureaucratic bourgeoisie hated it, and the petty bourgeoisie and the skilled craftsmen who had spent years of apprenticeship merely sympathized but did not support.

The real fundamentals of the bottom of the hierarchy that don't require years of apprenticeship are still scarce and have no power of their own. Similarly, the nascent industrial bourgeoisie, as twins, is rarer, less politically powerful, and fewer in number.

Just as those who sit on the left and those who sit in the middle today will stand together for a long time to unite in the struggle against the conservative and even reactionary retreat.

These two forces, which would become the mainstream and the basis of the contradictions, were naturally united at this time, first for bourgeois freedom and democracy, and then for parting ways.

The one sitting on the left will promise to let the hired workers help them get what they want, and promise to give the hired workers what they want when they have obtained the rights. As for whether to give or not, that's another matter, and when we get to that point, it has already proved that we have reached a new era.

For every point of growth on the left, dozens or even hundreds of times as many hired workers become supporters in the middle.

Small workshop owners, craftsmen, yeoman farmers, who will naturally stand on the right at this time, will conservatively oppose the big industrial workshops and the hydraulic machinery, the big farms.

They need the old times to maintain their survival, and even try to go back...... However, they will eventually be mercilessly annihilated. Either they become workshop owners, or they become destitute hired laborers, and thus change positions to support what they are supposed to support.

The task at this stage is to help the new bourgeoisie on the left, which supports the free market, to win, and not to go out of step with the times at this time.

It is necessary to do things in stages, so that the two parts of the people who are in the same situation in this stage can stand together. It is not until after success that laissez-faire becomes the mainstream of the times, that is, after it becomes the conservatism and tradition of the times, that the person who sits on the left will naturally sit on the right.

Radicalism at this time is conservatism in the future, and it only depends on what the mainstream is. Only the future, which is sitting in the middle, will still be in the middle, but the radical and conservative in the future will be different from the present, and the main contradiction in the future will be different from the present.

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

In the short term, it is also a split within the group of people sitting in the middle. A part of the moral citizens with utopianism and handicrafts as the main body will stand against the machine revolution; Some people who believe in the inherent goodness of human nature will unconditionally compromise with those on the left; Anarcho-public extremists will dislike this side for not being radical enough to run away and form a party; After coming out of the fog, some people will quickly turn to the right, and racial or nationalism will quickly rise to the ground, demanding stability to facilitate access to land interests abroad.

It is said that Chen Jian should sit firmly on the left at this time, but now the group of people on the left are a little ugly, and it is easy to be attacked by the elements of the old era, and it is easy to trick the hired class into retreating.

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

Economics, fraternism, humanitarianism, the improvement of the working environment, petitions for the legislation of interests, philanthropic organizations, the Association for the Study of Alcohol and Gambling, the Feelings of Our Lady, etc., are all used to fill the moral vacuum of the new era in advance in an improved way -- this is exactly what Chen Jian is doing.

Get out this comforting thing, lest the hired workers smash the machine, support utopia, support regression to the point of equalizing the land, and the guilds against innovation and free competition. At the same time, it is also to dress up the new class who do not know how to apply grease and whitewash, so as not to be attacked and struggled.

In other words, to tell the hired workers as much as possible that the bourgeoisie is righteous and that everything they do is for the sake of a better life for the hired class.

To fight for the bourgeoisie is to hire workers for you.

At a time when the twins of capital have not yet occupied an absolutely dominant position, this kind of propaganda with a crooked ass to the sky is progressive and united.

Perhaps this argument was only intended to avoid self-destruction, but now it is intended to prevent the annihilation of the old reactionary forces.

It is necessary to fight for the short-term goals and interests of the working class, but at the same time to represent the future. In the short term, it is to help the bourgeoisie establish its rule; In the long run, it is propaganda, debate, research, and collation of theories, and the use of the material and political conditions that followed the rule of the bourgeoisie to complete its own emancipation.

This is not a contradiction, but on the contrary, it is necessary to unite all those who can unite to try to overthrow the remnants of the old system. First reach the peak of human alienation, drag all the homesteaders and small craftsmen into the "free" forced labor forced to survive and difficult to survive without labor, and then take the second step.

This is roughly the situation inside and outside at this time, all kinds of ideas other than nationalism have emerged, and the old era still has the upper hand, but the problems of the new era have emerged, but they have not yet become the mainstream contradictions.

Chen Jian looked up at the clock in front of him, and finally when it was proposed to discuss the fourth issue, whether it would lead to the vast majority of the poor depriving the minority of the right to own property in the name of the majority, and whether it was reasonable for the right to vote to have real estate and property restrictions, was proposed to be discussed.

"It's too late today, and the day is long, so let's go back and rest first, think about what we discussed today, and then think about what we will discuss in the next decade. In a group of three or five familiar people, you first set the things to be discussed in the next ten years, and then gather them together, pick out the three or four topics that everyone is most interested in, set them ten years in advance, and prepare them. ”

"When the time comes, I'm going to go to the academy, not to the banquet like here. Not to mention preparing words and thoughts in advance, at least the water to moisten the throat should be prepared or a person who is specifically responsible for logistics should be selected. ”

Only then did everyone notice that it was already the second half of the night, not to mention that it was okay, but it was really a little sleepy when they said it.

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

Jian Chen jumped up to Lan Qi's side, took back his boots, and the two of them smiled normally and didn't say anything more, leaving each other's backs and saying goodbye.