158 Cataclysm (17)

Mustache was a strong-willed man, and before he started the war, he was convinced that the politicians of Europe were as soft as the Weimar government. Since then, he has been free to go, annexing Central Europe through the threat of force. In the subsequent war, relying on Germany's advanced armored tactics swept through Western Europe and laid a large territory.

The soft eggs are destroyed one by one, and all that remains is hard stubble. Germany faced Britain and the Soviet Union in Europe, and the mustache did not believe that the current Axis bloc was incapable of single-handing these two countries. The problem is that there are people behind these two countries.

There was no military alliance between the Soviet Union and China, but you could figure it out with your toes that China would never allow the Soviet Union to fall. Roosevelt, the old fox of the United States, passed the "Lend-Lease Act" in the US Congress, in which Britain could obtain unlimited US arms in the mode of accounting.

Of course, there are also relatively deep contradictions between China behind the Soviet Union and the US-British bloc, and China has strongly stated that it wants to overthrow the world's colonial system, and Britain will absolutely not agree. The problem is that the United States is vacillating on this matter. The war required a supreme goal, and Germany's war propaganda was to "break free from the shackles of the Versailles system and gain living space for Germany", and the German people firmly supported this goal, no matter what other countries thought.

Although China's slogan of destroying the colonial system pushed Britain down from the position of a sworn enemy, the regions of the world under the British colonial system were very supportive of China's position. Even South America, under strong pressure from the United States, agrees with China's position. If the Axis powers could agree with China and the Soviet Union, then the entire island of the world would be confronted by North America and Great Britain.

However, Chen Ke is like schizophrenia, as a country with a socialist system, he colludes with the United States under the capitalist system. He also went to the United States to make a speech, claiming that there is no need for the socialist system countries and the capitalist system countries to have a bloody war for the sake of national interests.

If the socialist countries do not fight a life-and-death war with the capitalist countries, then the remaining option is for the socialist countries to join forces with the capitalist countries to strangle the fascist alliance. This is a question that the mustache is puzzled with. Leaving the powerful countries alone, China wants to stand with the inferior nations in its colonies. Ignoring the possibility of being able to occupy all of Asia, China has tried to get close to the United States ideologically.

"Communism is a Jewish conspiracy! America is a Jewish-controlled country! That's why they're united! The mustache could only come up with such an answer, which he himself felt was a little unreliable.

Chen Ke didn't care about the idea of the mustache at this time, and in 1941, the general election of the people's congress and the government was imminent, and the call for Comrade Lu Huitian to become the president of the country was getting louder and louder. Of course, this call came mainly from civil servants and the "intellectual class". Originally, the intellectuals did not have many opinions on who should be the chairman, but after Chen Ke took action against the intellectuals, the intellectuals seemed to have awakened their political consciousness.

Wu Xiangyu's reputation was good, but Comrade Wu Xiangyu's insistence on party discipline made his reputation begin to fall. No matter how much he is an "excellent prime minister", if the prime minister only firmly implements the current ideological line, comrades who are dissatisfied with the current line will also give up choosing Wu Xiangyu.

Comrade Lu Huitian was not anti-Chen Ke, nor did he even support an antagonistic attitude with Chen Ke. He believes that the current domestic situation needs to be rectified. It is necessary to straighten out the existing order and adjust the system. "Strengthen government management and straighten out the current order and operation."

Many comrades who have not seen the struggle of the line in the later generations are quite supportive of Lu Huitian's steady viewpoint. Chen Ke and Lu Huitian had a long talk, after all, they are old comrades, and they speak very frankly. Lu Huitian believes that at this stage, it is no longer possible to "continue the revolution" in a frenzied way, and stable development is needed.

"Comrade Lu Huitian, do you think that the speed of the masses in mastering science is too slow?" Chen Ke asked.

Generally speaking, the difference between meritocracy and democracy is that meritocracy, because of its rich practical experience, makes more scientific decisions, which contributes to the stability of development in the long run. The democratic system, on the other hand, satisfies the needs of interest groups, giving the "populists" and even the people an illusion of "I am involved in politics", which is conducive to the stability of society in the short term. Of course, Chen Ke opposed both views.

"There is neither meritocracy nor ballot democracy. Cleanse the old era with the government running everything! That's the answer Lu Huitian gave.

In the old era, all the intellectual class came from the people, including the bureaucracy. Lu Huitian wants to establish an unprecedented big government. This big government has unified its grasp of ideology, culture, education, and economy. From then on, the gentry, populists, and intellectuals from the people all stepped aside. Everything in China is led by an unprecedentedly powerful and unprecedentedly advanced government.

After listening to Lu Huitian's introduction, Chen Ke didn't know what to say for a while. His first reaction was that it was no wonder that Lu Huitian could receive such support from so many people, and he must admit that Comrade Lu Huitian still had a great advanced nature. Judging from the actual situation now, the Chinese People's Party has the ability to establish such a government. Chen Ke feels that with his current physical condition, he can wait until the Internet era appears. After solving the technical difficulties from the perspective of scientific and technological development, it is not impossible to establish a society where "Big Brother cares about you in every detail".

The only question is, where is the place of the people? Are the people just following the new ruling class? Are the people just a source of fresh blood for a new and powerful ruling class? Can this be called liberation?

Even if it is as arrogant as Christ, it must be said that it leaves people with the power to choose freely. The goal of communism is the emancipation of humanity itself, and each person must become his own master and thus a member of the ruling class of society.

Chen Ke did not hate big government at all, but the purpose of this government was to "serve the people." And serving the people is not about providing welfare, not about giving out some money with a little fiscal surplus. Serving the people should provide the right to guarantee the people's labor, ensure that the people can transform themselves through labor, and guarantee the people's democratic rights.

Of course, democracy has never been a way to resolve contradictions between opposing classes. This is why the state is the highest stage and the highest expression of contradictions in the development of human society. Because the state itself is an instrument for the realization of the interests of the ruling class.

Lu Huitian's point of view, no matter what the comrades who supported him think, Chen Ke felt relieved and fearful at the same time.

It is gratifying because as China has entered the era of industrialization more and more deeply, the trends of thought that have appeared in the history of other industrial countries have begun to make up for many of them. Lu Huitian's idea of a big government is not at all the first trend of thought to make up for classes. Although Chen Ke has clearly raised the banner of opposing colonialism, there are still people in China who believe that China is taking the road of colonial imperialism, and the number is not too small.

No matter how much they propagate the essence of imperialism as internal exploitation and external plunder, most people will think that being able to plunder externally can reduce domestic pressure. Others have cited China's annexation of Australia and New Zealand as examples in an attempt to prove that colonial imperialism has a future.

Regarding such a viewpoint, Chen Ke is even considering whether to separate the course of logic from the political class. Because there is a logical problem with that view, if colonial imperialism has a future, how can Britain, a colonial empire, be beaten by China? Since the Chinese Revolution, it has never taken the line of supporting colonial imperialism.

Of course, this trend of thought is simply impossible to suppress. Historically, so many industrial countries, each of them has had such a process, and similar views and ideas have emerged. This shows that this process is a normal process and is basically unavoidable.

That's one of the reasons Chen Ke was afraid.

As the 20th century progressed into the 40s, colonialism and fascism had to be swept into the dustbin of history. Chen Ke saw that in the past 100 years of history, the United States is as powerful as the United States, and it is no longer able to go on the road of imperialism. As for the United Kingdom, it can't even keep the British Isles, and the Scots want to be independent. This proves that imperialism has no future, and colonial imperialism and fascism have no future.

Chinese civilization has been able to survive for thousands of years, not just because of its geographical location. The Roman Empire also controlled the entire Mediterranean for a time, and after its collapse, it could no longer continue. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China for several hundred years, there were not no countries that engaged in hegemony. Qi Huan Gong engaged in hegemonic politics, and the countries competing for hegemony sang and I appeared on the stage, and in the end, didn't they all end up with no results? China's precipitated culture eventually negated the hegemonic system. Tributary systems in Asia and colonialism are two different things through and through. Every time a foreign country pays tribute, China has to pay money when it is rewarded.

After the United States abandoned the colonial system, it finally allowed its allies to make money from the United States, and there were many implicit combinations with this tributary system.

As for the ...... fascism, Chu culture is now also a treasure in Chinese culture. In fact, the Chu culture, with the witch doctor culture as the core, and the Central Plains civilization are fundamentally different things. It was not ten or twenty years that the state of Chu was treated as a barbarian. But when the state of Chu accepted China's view of the world and regarded itself as China, the state of Chu also became a part of China step by step. If this was according to the fascist method, Chu culture should have been uprooted a long time ago.

The overly brain-dead "multiculturalism" that Europe later engaged in is, in a sense, somewhat similar to the integration of Chu culture and other non-Central Plains cultures into Chinese culture.

After the rise of the socialist camp in the industrial countries of Europe and the United States, they were forced to follow the same path as what was left over from Chinese history. Chen Ke really didn't see any need for him to allow industrialized China to follow these proven wrong paths.

It's just that some things are difficult to communicate, after all, imperialism has been arrogant around the world for hundreds of years, and even with Chen Ke's existence, China's history of imperialist aggression has been shortened from 100 years to 60 years. To make people feel that imperialism is a paper tiger and a backward thing is certainly not in line with the perception of ordinary people. It's also a bit out of line with the laws of understanding.

To be able to eliminate imperialism, the highest form of private ownership of mankind, must be a more powerful force, and before the emergence of such a powerful force, everyone wants to become such a strong man as imperialism.

"Comrade Lu Huitian, I think we still have to promote people's democracy." In the end, Chen Ke just gave Lu Huitian such an unconvincing answer.