London, 0 Downing Street.

It's autumn season in London, and a red flag symbolizing the revolutionary regime is flying high on the flagpole on the roof of the former British Prime Minister's residence. There was already a long carriage parked on Downing Street. It seems that they are all the people who have come to the meeting at 0 Downing Street today - after the British Revolutionary Committee took control of the city of London, Downing Street 0 became the headquarters of the British Revolutionary Committee. Among these carriages, one with the logo of the International Workingmen's Association stands out the most. This means that among the important people who have come to Downing Street 0 today is Karl Marx, now the leader of the International Workingmen's Association, who had arrived in London a few days earlier on a German steamer and who had been warmly welcomed by the masses organized by the British Revolutionary Committee.

The conversation between the leaders of the British Revolutionary Council and the international workers would of course involve the question of succession to the British throne, and such a question is, of course, a secret of the highest order. In the room, the same members of the Central Committee of the British Revolutionary Committee, such as George Ogel, Alexander MacDonald, and Henry George, were among the people who could be called "trade unionists" or "reformists" in later generations.

Of course, their proposition is not to fight to the death with capitalism, but to seek a line of peaceful transition and peaceful coexistence. Even after the British Revolution, these people did not fully transform into staunch revolutionaries like the Narodnaya Narodnamen, but continued to pursue compromise and reform – a line that in fact had to do with the current strength of international imperialism. Although the socialist camp now has three big powers, the United States, Britain, and Russia, compared with the three major powers of China and Rhodes in the imperialist camp, their strength is still many times worse. If the Roman and German Empires across the English Channel were determined to intervene. There is a high probability that the nascent revolutionary regime will be extinguished.

So after the success of the revolution in London. The Central Committee of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, including Engels, Olzhe, MacDonald, and Henry George from the United States. Meetings were held for several days to discuss the course of development of Britain after the victory of the revolution, and several important principles were determined.

The first, of course, is democracy and universal suffrage. Socialist Britain would be a replica of socialist Poland, and democracy in favour of workers and peasants – including the "revolutionary electoral council" system that restricted the participation of bourgeois agents in elections and the universal suffrage system of one person, one vote – would be introduced into Britain as it was. Although Britain in the future will be a socialist country, it will definitely not be the genuine socialism of the Third International in the future!

The second important principle is the coexistence of public and private ownership, as was the case in Poland before the World War. Nearly 0 million acres of arable land and grassland in the UK will be distributed to about 2 million households at the rate of 20 acres (about 20 acres) per household. It was used to house about 0 million British people (not counting the Irish, England and Scotland have a population of about 25 million). Once allocated, these family farms will not be allowed to be transferred privately or spun off. If the peasant family wants to withdraw from agricultural production, it can only be taken over by the British Agricultural Cooperative at a fair price, and then sold at a low price to the people in need - this is the experience of more than ten years of socialist practice in Poland, land needs to have a certain degree of concentration in order to maximize economic efficiency, so it is necessary to curb the tendency of farmers to divide land to different children to inherit.

The remaining 5 million Britons will continue to live in towns and cities, and will be allocated housing or homestead land on a home-owning basis. At the same time, the government will take over banks, large factories, mines, railways, ports, and other important sectors related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and use the power of the state to revitalize them as soon as possible. in order to address the employment of the urban population.

At the same time, the government of socialist Britain also encouraged the private sector to set up small business entities to solve the problem of employment. Active markets. In the case of FDI, the principles of conditional introduction and openness are also applied. As for the capitalists and aristocratic landlords who had lost their land, property and various industries as a result of the revolution, the Revolutionary Committee adopted the method of expulsion rather than repression – on the grounds that the British government, which these people elected and supported, had brought great calamity to the country and the people, and that they must be held accountable for their wrong choices!

The third principle, "dynastic socialism," caused considerable controversy at the top of the British Socialist Party and the British Revolutionary Committee, and even Karl Marx, the general secretary of the International Workingmen's Association, did not approve of it.

"There has been news from Yingtian that the British royal family has now left New Japan and is on its way to Hawaii. According to the agreement reached between the Chinese and them, Victoria I and Edward VII would become empresses and crown princes of the Indian Empire. Princess Helena will become the queen of the South China Kingdom. I have informed Berlin of this news, and both Princess Victoria and Crown Prince Frederick are very happy, and they have expressed their willingness to let Prince William come to England to become King William V if the British people need it. Moore, what do you think. Do we need this King William V? ”

Engels spoke his opinion slowly, and his expression was not unusual, and he looked confident. This No. 2 god of GC ism in history, after all these years of experience in a high position, naturally Zhidào how difficult it is to manage a country, and what is the real needs of the people, even more Zhidàogcism cannot be built on utopianism.

And the British, who had ruled the world for a long time, did not need a castle in the air now - how could they believe that the liberation of the world was profitable without bringing much benefit to the working people of Britain? Now the British need yàoshi tangible benefits. Land, bread, housing, universal suffrage and higher wages and shorter working hours, oh, pensions, health care, free education, and so on are what the British want.

As for the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat in England or something, the Roman Empire was worried that there was no excuse for intervention and no party to lead the way! Moreover, the British Revolutionary Council now controls only a few large cities, and most of the British army and navy are still on the sidelines!

"My opinion is that we need Wilhelm V, who on the one hand has the mighty German Empire behind him, and that his appointment as monarch of England will unite England and Germany to form a republican union. And this alliance will be enough to counter the hegemony of the Roman Empire. In this way, our nascent socialist Britain would not have to worry about the armed intervention of Rome.

On the other hand, the introduction of kings from abroad after the Revolution was also in line with European practice, and could quickly bring our power to dominance in England and Scotland. Only in this way will it be possible to fulfill the promises we have made to the people. Britain could also have avoided a large-scale civil war. ”

Alexander MacDonald took up the topic of Engels and expressed his opinion in support. This is also what the British Workers' Federation means – although the main leaders of the British Workers' Federation have joined the British Socialist Party. But the British Workers' Confederation remained as a trade union federation.

"But William V is likely to become the general representative of the English bourgeoisie, and the English bourgeoisie will come back with him and become the master of the country again!"

Engels smiled: "If those people can still be masters, how can it be our turn to sit in No. 0 Downing Street?" ”

He shook his head, "Britain's original economy was built on the basis of a world empire, Britain itself was an industrial base and financial center, and the colonies were raw material gathering places and product dumping markets. And now Britain's world empire no longer exists, without the cheap raw materials and vast markets of the colonies, the pound is reduced to waste paper, the big banks in Britain have gone bankrupt, and the financial center of the Western world has shifted from London to Paris. Under such circumstances, the original economic model will face the dilemma of having neither raw materials nor a market, and there will be no way out at all except the socialist road. ”

It is true that this is not the second century, there are no rules of global free trade, only a large market within a colonial empire. For example, free trade within the Great Chinese Empire and the Great Roman Empire. Foreign countries want to enter these two large markets, either as an important ally of the German Empire and the Kingdom of Sweden, or as an equal and mutually beneficial development between the two large markets of Greater China and Greater Rome. Britain, which has lost its world empire, is neither an important ally nor qualified to be equal and mutually beneficial to Rome and China. Ironclad will be left out - and Britain is still a developed industrial country, who would be so kind to share a limited market and cheap raw materials with it?

Therefore, Britain's post-war economy can only follow a different socialist path from the past, and promote the development of the domestic market through a more rational distribution of resources and wealth. Of course, communication with the outside world is also indispensable.

"And the formation of a re-monarchy alliance with the German Empire is actually conducive to solving the problem of the lack of raw materials and markets for British industry. Because behind the alliance of the British and German republicans will be the union of a powerful British Navy and a powerful German Army! Moreover, the Slavic Socialist Union of the United States of America and the Narodnik Volyaya will also be allies of the Anglo-German Republican Union. Britain, Germany, the United States, and Russia are united, and I am afraid that the Roman Empire and the Great Chinese Empire can only open some markets to us, right? ”

Engels looked at Marx and said lightly his intentions. Use the Anglo-German republicist alliance to unite the four great powers of Britain, Germany, the United States and Russia to form a great alliance of "industrialized poor countries"! To be continued ......)