Hearing Scrooge's words, Dena was silent for a long time. She knew that Scrooge was not lying, and that what he was saying was what was very likely to happen in the future. Even if she wanted to, she could think of many more terrible things. For example, the people were willing to follow the Bolsheviks because they promised to end the war and bring them a better life. Theoretically, a socialist system that never worries about insufficient demand and unlimited expansion of production as long as resources are available should indeed bring peace and a better life to the people, but in practice it is not. Emperor. Country. Host. The war between the righteous was over, but the civil war began, and the civil war continued until the emperor. Country. Host. The righteous wars are over, and it's not over yet. In fact, because of this, many of those who had supported the revolution in the first place have begun to regret it, and even turned to the side of the counter-revolution. If the civil war is over, you can farm with peace of mind and develop people's livelihood with peace of mind, then Dena believes that the people will be satisfied and will soon forget the extra time of the war.

But things are not so easy, although Dena believes that winning the civil war is not too difficult, but it is not the end of the difficulty, but only the beginning of the difficulty. This emerging country is surrounded by enemies, it must become strong as soon as possible, it must move quickly, at all costs, by any means. To do this, it has to sacrifice a lot of things, perhaps one or two generations, or even more generations. Not many people can really bear such a life where they can't breathe, so many people will regret it, and they will feel that they have been fooled. However, there must not be a pause in this country, and pause means death, that all the blood shed before will be in vain, and that the sins suffered before will be in vain. In the future, if the people have to suffer two stubbles again, they will suffer two sins. Therefore, anyone who tries to give the country a breather and make the burden of the people a little lighter is dragging the country back, and they are all enemies of the revolution, they are all counter-revolutionaries, and they all need to be ruthlessly suppressed. Some of these people may be outright good, or they may simply be revolutionaries now, but ......

"But Dena, I'm worried about your future." Scrooge said, "I think you should be able to understand that your revolution will encounter a series of problems in the future, and that perhaps today's fellow travelers may become tomorrow's counter-revolutionaries, especially in the process of rapid industrialization, which you need to do whatever it takes." The whole situation is likely to be exactly the same as it was during the French Revolution, especially Robespierre. On Moscow's Red Square, a tall guillotine might be erected, and on every telephone pole would be the corpse of a 'counter-revolutionary', a 'enemy of the state', a 'traitor', and the like. You have enough knowledge and experience, and you know that I'm not exaggerating here, and it's something that could have happened, or even something that was bound to happen. Do you think it's really good for you to stay in such an environment? ”

Scrooge looked at Dena, hoping to see doubt, fear, and vacillation in Dena's eyes. This is very normal, when anyone sees such a dark future, even if he believes that there is light behind this darkness, and then believes that through this darkness is the only way to see the light, he will still have doubts and fears. After all, people are not machines, and as long as they are human, they will be afraid.

Neither of them spoke again, and after a long time, Dena smiled bitterly and said in a voice that almost only she could hear: "That white . . . When the officer called me out, I thought he would take me to the river, throw me a shovel, make me dig a hole in the riverbank, and shoot me in the back of the head. Now that I think about it, this is actually a pretty good result. Although to die like this Turgrev said: 'It is a nameless sacrifice and you will perish, not even one ...... No one knows, and no one honors you. Although I also felt that I was prepared for all kinds when I embarked on this path, although I was even prepared to 'be prepared to sin', although I also thought that one day 'you know that in the future in the midst of hardship you will deny your present faith, and you will think that you have wasted your youth in vain', but I am still not brave enough to really face the darkness ahead...... However, I still believe that my judgment is not wrong, and that the path I am taking is not bad. Just as Robespierre's path was not wrong back then! ”

Dena's voice grew louder, and she raised her head, staring fearlessly into Scrooge's eyes.

"Alright, Dena." Scrooge said in a disappointed tone, "You know, the family has always wanted you to go back, and although the third generation of children in the family has almost grown up, there is still no one who can compare to you." ”

"No, Uncle Scrooge, I'm not going back." Dena said firmly.

"Tell me your reasoning." Scrooge didn't look upset at Dena's refusal.

"I don't want to do useless things that are destined to be eliminated by history." "Back in my family," replied, "of course I can be a brilliant capitalist, but the capitalist system is mathematically flawed, and its failure and demise are inevitable and inevitable. Something like this isn't worth my investment too much in it. ”

Scrooge understood what Dena called a "mathematical" "congenital defect", namely, the problem that supply far outstrips demand that inevitably arises in an isolated capitalist economic system. Of course, this problem can be alleviated to a certain extent by plundering the colonies, but the colonies are limited, and the expansion of production capacity is not unlimited, so that the economic crisis is naturally inevitable, so because there is too much production, so everyone has nothing to eat, and there is nothing to use, and this obvious situation does not conform to the most basic mathematical laws.

"Dena, of course there is some truth to what you said, but I don't think that this phenomenon you said violates the most basic laws of the world." Scrooge thought for a moment and replied, "You know, Dena, there is a description in the second law of thermodynamics: 'The entropy of an isolated system never decreases automatically, and the entropy does not change in the reversible process and increases in the irreversible process.'" The innate problems of capitalism you are talking about are actually very much in line with the laws of physics, aren't they? To increase negative entropy, you have to think of a way outside the system, like a colony to solve the problem. And what you now imagine is that the economic self-prosperity of the colonies that do not need to be relied on is contrary to the laws of nature. ”

Hearing this, Dena laughed: "Uncle Scrooge, you are secretly changing concepts. Indeed, in an isolated system, entropy always increases irreversibly. But for society, the source of negative entropy does not originate from foreign colonies. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain the growth of negative entropy in the entire human society since the Industrial Revolution. The origin of negative entropy from the source of the energy that drives social production, not from colonies or anything, has been considered for a long time. ”

"The source of energy?" Scrooge didn't react for a moment.

"Before the Industrial Revolution, all the energy needed for human activities came from the direct or indirect use of solar energy by living organisms. The reason why the industrial revolution can make human beings take a big step forward is that it makes the way for human beings to obtain negative entropy not only depends on the direct and indirect use of solar energy by living organisms, but also the use of fossil energy has become the mainstream, and the use of fossil energy accumulated over many hundreds of millions of years has made the negative entropy that human beings can obtain greatly beyond any previous era, which makes today's society possible. Of course, the consumption of fossil energy will be much greater than its accumulation, so from this point of view, the negative entropy of human society has increased, but the overall entropy of the earth has also increased. One day fossil energy may be exhausted, but thanks to Einstein, thanks to Marie Curie, thanks to their great discovery, Einstein told us E=MC2, which shows that in addition to fossil energy, there are other possible sources of negative entropy, and Marie Curie's research on radioactivity has pointed out the direction for the possibility of new energy sources. Fossil energy will eventually run out, but perhaps by that time, we will be able to use the energy contained in matter directly. So, colonies are not a must. Dena replied.

Dena's answer was a big surprise to Scrooge, who hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Dena, what you said seems to make sense, but I have to think about it again." ”

In conversation, it is not a terrible thing to be at a disadvantage on a problem, the terrible thing is that I don't know how to admit defeat and don't know how to stop loss, but I am entangled in this problem that is already at a disadvantage, and the result is that there are more and more flaws, and I am more and more at a disadvantage and cannot turn over. At this point, it's the right thing to do right away from immediately admitting that you're not thinking enough, then closing the topic and moving the conversation to something else.

"But Dena, even if you don't think about it, even if capitalism is doomed, your revolution is bound to fail. Or we can deduce it on the spot. Scrooge said.

Dena has always been a very good and strong person, and Scrooge knew that this kind of confrontational thing in the live deduction must be very good to attract Dena's attention.

"Well, Uncle Scrooge, I'm interested in that too." Dena replied.