Chapter 1535: Three Kinds of Socialism
Jumping from the Department of Diving Science to the general trend of the world, Zhu Jishi's topic jumped hard, but the content made Maria and Kusumoto Takako frightened. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info↑ small
Wasn't it a world war after the death of Napoleon III? Could it be that Mathilde's death would also be the source of a world war? But the current Great Chinese Empire is no longer what it was in 1874. Although the economic strength has increased several times compared to 26 years ago, the population has exceeded 1.05 billion, the annual output of steel has exceeded 55 million tons, the coal has exceeded 1 billion tons, and the oil has also reached 48 million tons. It definitely has the strength to crush the entire Western world. However, having the strength to crush the West does not mean that it has the motivation to crush the West. At least in the Ming Empire itself, the urge to expand no longer exists.
Because the proletarians, who now make up the majority of the population of the Ming Empire, believe that they have not benefited from the last great expansion. Just as Kang Youwei, the leader of the Chinese Socialist Party, said in his "Theory of Great Harmony": Although Greater China has half of the earth, the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer and the richer, and the poor are not one out of ten. Its embarrassment is better than ever!
Maria and Kusumoto Takako glanced at each other, Maria sorted out her thoughts, and said tentatively: "Emperor Taishang, the internal stability of the Ming Dynasty is not very stable now, and most of the people do not support the war......"
Compulsory education in Daming has been implemented for more than 40 years, and the number of years has increased from 4 years at the beginning to 9 years now. Successful education has produced generation after generation of new proletarian youths with ideals, morality, education, and discipline -- they already have their own ideas.
If the Ming Dynasty was a poor industrialized country like Japan in this era in history, it would have been possible to fool them with militarism. But now half of the world is surnamed Zhu. It's still the half with the most oil and water. The common people are no longer happy. But the reason can only be found from the inside.
Zhu Jishi nodded in agreement, "Yes!" The cake is big enough, and how to distribute it well is indeed a problem, which is a hidden danger for the Great Chinese Empire. The system implemented by my old friend Engels in England was more successful, but it may not be applicable to the Ming Empire...... Engels's routine is that the people are rich but the country is not strong, which may be suitable for a country like Britain that has completely lost interest in world hegemony. But the Ming Dynasty and Greater China cannot act in this way, because we are now the world hegemon. ”
After the loss of all the colonies and Ireland in England and the Socialist United Kingdom of Scotland, the standard of living of the vast majority of the British people was much higher than it was before the First World War - Engels's socialism was another success in Britain!
Through fair and efficient land redistribution. Socialist Britain succeeded in establishing a new type of countryside based on medium-sized family farms. With the help of the British Agricultural Cooperatives, the 2 million middle farmers in Britain not only lived a well-to-do life on their own, but also managed to feed more than 23 million urban people and provide 50% of the wool for the British textile industry. It's definitely a success.
And most of Britain's city dwellers are better off than they were before the First World War. Unemployment seems to have been completely solved, no one is starving, child labour is gone, cities are clean and tidy, and the vast majority of British city dwellers have their own homes.
Pensions, an eight-hour workday, weekends, free education and health care, low-cost housing, and universal one-person-one-vote suffrage. The benefits and rights that the British people could not have imagined before were all possessed after they lost the world empire!
And what they have lost is nothing more than an unreachable colony and the most powerful fleet in the world. There were also a few thousand big bourgeoisie who owned the vast majority of the wealth of the British Empire - of course, socialist Britain did not abolish private property. Socialism in this country is a British characteristic, and at the same time it is another successful practice of Engelsian socialist theory.
Both the big bourgeoisie and the big landlords are curbed in Britain today by means of high progressive taxes and the Revolutionary Election Commission (the members of which are drawn by all citizens to oversee the election and exclude candidates who represent the interests of big capital). The former can contain the big bourgeoisie and big landlords economically, while the latter can curb their influence politically and ensure that elections are not manipulated by money. As a result, almost all of Britain's large industrial and commercial enterprises are state-owned.
Small and medium-sized private enterprises were encouraged and fostered in socialist Britain. The right of the petty bourgeoisie to participate in politics is also protected, and they even have a party that represents their own interests, the Liberal Democratic Party of Great Britain, which is the second largest party in British politics after the British Socialist Party.
By the way, now socialist Britain has a multi-party system, and the parliamentary elections in the country are absolutely for real. And there are two parties that claim socialism, the moderate British Socialist Party and the radical British Narodnaya Narodnaya Narodnamen. The former is the ruling party in the United Kingdom, and has achieved remarkable political achievements for more than two decades, and has the support of the majority of British voters. The latter, on the other hand, agrees with the Narodnaya Narodnaya Narodnaya for the world revolution - the need to concentrate financial and material resources to build a strong socialist state in order to eliminate imperialism through war and achieve the emancipation of all mankind! Moreover, the Narodnaya Narodnaya also believed that the preservation of private property was the preservation of capitalism, and that the support of Wilhelm V (known as Wilhelm II in the German Empire) was the surrender of imperialism......
However, this radical view of the Narodnik Party has a limited market among the British public, who have suffered enough from the world war. Because they've already tasted world domination and don't want to taste it a second time, under whatever name. Moreover, after the formation of the reconfederation with Germany, Britain's national security is also guaranteed, and there is no need to maintain a large army or navy, only a small but elite army and a national mobilization system are enough to protect the country, and most of the financial resources can be used to improve people's livelihood. Therefore, the British people are quite supportive of King William V, who has been staying in Berlin and rarely comes to London.
Russia, which was renamed the Slavic Socialist Republic under the rule of the Narodnaya Volya, is also socialist, but it is not at all the same way as British socialism - the Slavic Narodnaya Volnaya Volnaya (formerly the Russian Narodnaya Volya) is the only political party in the Slavic Socialist Republic!
The original Russian Social Revolution and the Russian Socialist Party were forcibly annexed by the Narodya Volya, which had struck first after the success of the Russian Revolution. The general line of the Narodnik Party is the world revolution and the revolution to the end! In Nechayev's view, the Russian, American and British revolutions were only the beginning of the world revolution! The three socialist countries that were the first to emerge should concentrate all their energies on the development of heavy industry in order to strengthen their national strength, and be ready to declare war on international imperialism at any time.
On the domestic economic line, the Narodnaya National People's Congress insisted on the abolition of private ownership and the development of the socialist economy with the rural communes as the basis. Soon after the victory of the revolution, Narodnaya Narodnaya proclaimed state ownership of land and brought all rural communes under the jurisdiction of the General Agricultural Cooperatives of the Slavic Socialist Republic. Moreover, agricultural collectivization was carried out, but at the moment the external environment of the Slavic Union was better than that of Soviet Russia, and the cost of Nechaev's version of agricultural collectivization was less than that of Stalin's, and the process of Slavic industrialization was much smoother than that of the Soviet Union. With two industrialized socialist countries, Britain and the United States, as foreign aid, industrial society and technology can be easily obtained. Moreover, the drastic reduction of the land area is not necessarily a bad thing for construction and management. After all, there was no shortage of coal, iron ore and oil necessary for industrialization in the lands controlled by the Slavic Union.
However, in domestic politics, the line of the Narodnaya Volnaya had been the same as that of the historical Bolsheviks, and at the very beginning of the revolution it carried out the most severe suppression of the reactionary forces in Russia, including the aristocracy, the landlords, and the Orthodox clergy of the capitalist state! After the initial victory of the revolution, the Narodnaya Volyaya began a round of purges and internal purges, and at the same time vigorously deified Nechayev, and finally established Nechayev's position as the great leader and absolute leader.
In addition to the two seemingly diametrically opposed socialisms of Britain and Russia, there is also an American model of socialism in this time and space.
The American revolution was the first of the three socialist countries to win, but the foundation of the revolution in the United States was the weakest, and in fact not many people really understood socialism. So they did not go their own way at first, but took lessons from Europe - at the same time Engels's version of British socialism and Nechayev's version of Russian socialism. At the beginning, it was the Socialist Party of the United States that was in power, and it followed a similar line as that of Britain, with the people rich but the country not strong. On the contrary, the people's living standards have been rapidly improved, and industry and agriculture have also rapidly recovered.
But the two neighbors of the United States, Donghua and Beihua, are developing even faster! In less than 10 years, the combined population and industrial strength of the two countries greatly surpassed that of the United States, and the Americans once again felt the threat of national extinction. As a result, the Narodya Volyaya was elected to power again, and after the leader of the American Narodnik Party came to power, he wanted to learn from Nechaev to carry out the rebellion, but the Americans with guns stopped doing it again, and while resisting by force, they marched in the streets against the Narodnaya Volnadham. And the armed forces of the United Socialist States of America were not controlled by the Narodnaya Narodnaya people, and as a result, the American Narodnik had to give in. The amnesty was announced, and then the banner of a rich country and a strong army was raised, and a line between the Socialist Party and the Narodnik Party was taken. (To be continued.) )