"Runaway administration?" Hearing this prophecy, Dena couldn't help but feel a little dazed, and didn't know how to answer this question for a while.

"I know you might come up with something like that." Scrooge said with a gentle smile, as if Dena were a child who had not grown up, "First, you may intend to crack down on the traitors of the revolution who are trying to use their power for personal gain. Conscientiously and meticulously clean up the ranks of the Party, and expel those degenerate elements from the ranks of the leadership as much as possible. This is not useless, but it only reduces the speed at which the administrative team gets out of control, and does not solve the problem at the root. Moreover, those degenerate elements will not stand idly by, they will rebel, in every way, legal, illegal, peaceful, unpeaceful. You will also use all means, lawful, illegal, peaceful, unpeaceful, unpeaceful means to suppress them. Just like you did with the Constituent Assembly on January 5. At that time, what you did was not at all legal, not at all democratic, and not above board. Ah, don't justify. I know you have to do it. You made a mistake when you agreed to do any election in the first place. Without changing the economic infrastructure of society as a whole, no election can be in favor of those bent on destroying it. To be honest, you guys were naïve in the beginning. Fortunately, you are not stupid to the end, you find out that something is wrong, and you know how to use violence to break the game. Only this time, Dena, you're facing a different situation than on the 5th of January. Your enemy is yourselves. No one is willing to give up the benefits they can get, how can you be able to suppress the entire administrative team, the entire bureaucracy for a long time? ”

Speaking of this, Scrooge can't help but think of the historical "I came to Hebei Province" (German: I am alone) against the entire bureaucracy, forcing them to be honest servants of the people, and managing them not to abuse their power for personal gain.

In ancient China, there was no king who hated the corrupt officials of the common people more than Ming Taizu, he sent various investigation agencies to supervise hundreds of officials, he allowed and encouraged ordinary people to complain about the corruption of officials, he was strict in law enforcement, and he was not soft on killing corrupt officials, and all kinds of tricks were renovated. The result? As a result, as soon as Zhu Yuanzhang died, my Ming Dynasty was immediately corrupted into various tricks. And Zhu Yuanzhang, who blocked everyone and prevented everyone from getting rich, was also unanimously portrayed as a sadistic pervert and an ungrateful tyrant.

In the original time and space, it was in Soviet Russia that Iron Man stood out in the internal melee, and then continuously, again and again, the bureaucracy of Soviet Russia was cleansed, however, as soon as he died, the bureaucracy immediately rebounded, and then, the image of Iron Man completely became a projection of Satan. And a few decades later, the bureaucracy simply divided the Soviet Union.

"We are not alone, we represent the interests of the majority, and the majority stand with us. Of course we can suppress, we can defeat those degenerate traitors. Dena seemed a little excited. And this excitement is, in Scrooge's view, precisely a manifestation of panic.

"Believe in the masses and rely on the masses. From the masses, to the masses. The eyes of the masses are bright. Scrooge smiled sarcastically and said, "But Dena, there are two big problems with the masses. One problem is that they do not have the time, the energy to understand to oversee the operation of the state apparatus. As I said earlier, the organization of social production is so complex that it is simply incomprehensible to non-specialists. ”

"But whether those guys are corrupt or whether they abuse power for personal gain, everyone can see it." Dena chimed in.

"Yes, the eyes of the people are bright after all." Scrooge shook his head disappreciatively, "But their organization is very problematic. ”

"Revolution is about awakening the masses of the people and organizing." Dena said.

"Then the part that makes up the organization may be detached from the masses and become the new master." Scrooge said coldly, "They will all form their own stratum of interests, and they will all have the same possibility of degenerating into new bureaucrats." ”

Scrooge thought of the great man in the history of the Red Rabbit Kingdom, and his controversial actions in his later years were not also because he felt that the original revolutionaries were rapidly becoming bureaucrats who were detached from the masses and whose interests were not in line with the masses? Is it because of this fear that he tried to get the masses to participate in national politics through direct intervention? Scrooge didn't know if he thought so, but he knew that this great man, who had been invincible all his life, did not win in this final battle. It is said that when a certain Bald Eagle Grand Commander came to visit the Red Rabbit Country, he once praised him for changing the world. But the old man shook his head and said, "Not so much, in fact, I have only changed a little bit in China." Many years ago, when Scrooge saw this record, he only understood his words as ordinary modesty, but now, when Scrooge recalls this passage, he feels more of a deep exhaustion.

"Dena," said Scrooge earnestly, "I confess that the communist system is indeed mathematically perfect, full of a mathematical beauty. Perhaps, there is nothing else in the world that is more attractive than it. I am even willing to say that if it can be realized, then it will be worth it even if you spill your blood for it. Perhaps in the world, apart from the communist cause, there is nothing else that is truly worth sacrificing people's lives to pursue. Even with me, if communism is really viable, I am willing to work for it. After all, this is the kingdom of heaven on earth. But Dena, communism is just a phantom, and the kingdom of heaven will never be on earth. Even if you build a socialist state, it will degenerate again into a capitalist cave after two or three generations at most. Do you think it's worth paying countless blood and lives, but in the end it is destined to only have such a result? ”

"Since communism is mathematically more perfect than capitalism, it's worth working on it." Dena replied, "When the steam engine first appeared, it was nowhere near as good as a horse. When capitalism was first established, life expectancy in Britain plummeted. You know all these Uncle Scrooges. I'll admit that Uncle Scrooge's problem is very tricky, and at least for now, I haven't come up with a good solution. "But I'm very grateful Uncle Scrooge for the precious reminder you've given us. Maybe these reminders will help us avoid a lot of failures. ”

"It's useless, Dena, it's useless." Scrooge shook his head and said, "It's a strange circle that can't be escaped. Dena, look at me. I boast to myself, I started as an ordinary craftsman and now I am the richest man in the world, and I have achieved a lot of things in many ways, and I think, maybe, I can say modestly that there are not many people who are smarter than me in this day and age, right? To be honest, I was thinking about these questions back in my association with Mr. Marx. But, to be honest, I never really came up with a way to do it. I don't think you and your comrades can do anything good. Stop doing such futile things, useless. ”

"No, Uncle Scrooge, I think you are too arrogant and contemptuous of the people. Indeed, the people, at least in Russia, are still as insensitive and ignorant as the French were in the days of Robespierre. But time will change all that. It is true that economic activities will become more and more complex, but the development of new technologies will also greatly improve the efficiency of production without deliberate exploitation. So, in the long run. The intensity of human labor will definitely fall, at least, after having us, it must fall. At this, Dena suddenly smiled, "Because of an example like us, if you still suppress the workers as hard as you do now, they will revolt." So whatever kind of benefits we give to the workers, you have to give them the same. We don't need to think about profits. We will never have a shortage of demand, anyway, what we produce can be directly distributed, and there is no need for market exchange at all. You're different, and if you want to have a welfare system, it's like suicide. This is especially true when the economic crisis hits. So, the first ones who can't hold on are likely to be you. Ah, I seem to be a bit off topic, well, with the decrease in labor intensity and working hours, and the rise in the general level of education, the level of awareness of the people will also rise, even if it does not reach the point where everyone can fully understand the operation of the country and see the cattiness of some traitors, but many people, or more and more people, can have such ability, as long as we insist on educating them as the masters of the country, teaching them to see the truth of the world clearly, and learning those true, useful things, Just like Uncle Scrooge, you taught me and Donald. In that case, I believe that the people will have the time, energy, and knowledge to really run the country well. ”

"Dena, it's not easy. It's just a faint hope. I can't completely deny the possibility, but, I'm sure, I won't see that day, and you probably won't see it. From feudalism to capitalism, mankind has traveled for more than 100 years, and in fact, as you know, the leap from feudalism to capital is much smaller than the leap from capitalism to socialism. So, your struggle may not necessarily come to an end for hundreds of years. Why do you do something that you know you won't get results? Listen to me, come back to the family, Dena. Scrooge said.

"Uncle Scrooge, do you remember a parable from Thus Said Zalastura?" Dena suddenly asked, "'Man is a rope between an animal and a superman, a rope that hangs above the abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous journey, a dangerous retrospective, a dangerous standing and stopping. The great thing in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: the lovely thing in man is that he is a transition and a decline. 'Uncle Scrooge, it seems to me that those who cross this rope are great, and those who fall down in the middle are also respectable, and only those who are afraid of this rope and stay on the other side of the beast, or climb out two steps and turn back, are truly contemptible. Those who realized that they were not right, found the possible right direction, but did not dare to act, are still monkeys and even insects to this day. Do you want to convince me to be a monkey or a bug? ”

"Ahh You're still so snarky. Scrooge said, "Well, I know your ambitions. I don't approve of you, but I'm very proud that the MacDonald family has such a truly brave man. Okay, let's talk about our business now.

You know, I hate the industrial nations of Europe more than I hate you. So, I want to help you grow, industrialize, and build the world's first welfare system. And then the guys in Europe will either have to imitate you with deficit finances, and then their human costs will be so high, and then we can easily defeat them in the market. Either they will have to wage war against you, and the better you prepare and the more successful you industrialize, the greater the scale of the war, and the greater the damage to the industry of Europe. Then, when Europe is in tatters, we can not only plunder their colonies, but even control the whole of Europe. ”

"Aren't you afraid that we will liberate all of Europe in the war?" Dena asked.

"Even if God bless you again, those guys in Europe will not wait until your strength is significantly greater than theirs to start a war. For you, the best is a close battle. Besides, we can intervene at any time, and you will not have a chance to liberate all of Europe. Scrooge replied, "After this, you are exhausted, and then, you say, is there anything better for us?" ”

"You can be honest." "But it doesn't always go your way. ”

"What, you're not interested in working with us?" Scrooge asked.

"No, how could it be." Dena smiled and replied, "At least, you're willing to sell us a rope to hang the capitalists in Europe." Aren't you worried that one day in the future this rope will also hang the capitalist system? ”

"Ah, Dena, the great Sun King said, 'After my death, who will be the flood?' Scrooge replied.

……

In July 1926, Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the All-Starvation Committee, died of a heart attack, and as he lay dying, he recommended to the Party Central Committee his deputy, Valia Ivanlovna (also known as Dena MacDonald), to take over his post. While continuing the struggle against saboteurs and degenerates.

In February 1929, Valia Ivanlovna began to take charge of foreign trade, as well as the acquisition of foreign industries and technologies.

In December 1930, Valia Ivanovna was assassinated on her way to work by a Soviet officer, triggering the famous Great Purge.

In February 1932, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, which was mired in economic crisis, and in March of the same year, he received a large amount of money from Wall Street.

In May 1934, the world's richest man, Scrooge MacDonald, died.

(End of book)