Chapter 184, The Prairie of Beasts

Although before returning to the United States, Toldo felt that he was quite prepared for the difficulties that the proletarian revolution was going to encounter, and although many comrades, even Mr. Marx and Engels, had analysed with him the form of the United States and pointed out to him the arduous and long-term nature of the work in the United States, when Toldo returned to the United States, Toldo was still present, and the situation was even worse than he had imagined.

In the United States, workers are more mobile than in Europe, and workers in the United States, especially those with low technical requirements, often work for a few years, save a little money, and then find a way to run west. So all along, workers in the United States have not been too interested in fighting for political rights, and they have been more concerned with economic goals. Coupled with the high level of mobility, it is difficult for the United States to establish national and even transnational workers' organizations like in Europe, and most of the current workers' organizations in the United States are only factory-level "xx factory unions", and there are not many city-level industrial trade unions. This makes it more difficult for American workers to form a joint force in the struggle than in Europe.

However, Toldo was prepared for these problems, and he also knew that the "gaochao" that was now setting off a proletarian revolution in the United States was impossible and divorced from reality. The most realistic work is to prepare the organization and spread the truth. However, when he first returned to China, he was still very excited by the unprecedented sharp class contradictions: so many workers in all walks of life and factories were unemployed, and their lives were difficult. Under such circumstances, it seems possible to organize a cross-industry, cross-regional national workers' organization to unite the proletariat of the whole of the United States, or at least of the northeastern United States. So Toldo immediately went into action, and he went to the various trade unions to give speeches to the workers everywhere, and gave them an analysis of what caused their situation, who were their friends and who were their enemies. Finally, he pointed out to them that there is only one enemy of the entire American working class, and that is the bourgeoisie, which uses Wall Street as its gathering place! He was even planning an "Occupy Wall Street" demonstration to show the power of the united proletariat like the vampires who brazenly violated the rights of the workers.

Soon, however, an unexpected circumstance arose. First, some bourgeois-controlled newspapers began to deliberately stir up contradictions between the old and new immigrants, claiming that it was the excessive immigration that made the competition fierce, and thus caused the wages of the workers to drop sharply. Although this fallacy is hardly worth refuting, the most important thing in propaganda is never who has the truth, but who has the means to make his voice heard. Of course, the truth has permanent power, in the long run, the truth will surely triumph over a lie, it will only be covered for a while, but it will never be destroyed, this is like the truth that the earth is revolving around the sun, although the Holy See used all the means to cover it, although they imprisoned the people who propagated heliocentrism, barbecued the barbecue, but "the earth is still rotating"!

The propaganda machine is in the opponent's place, and if you say a sentence yourself, the other side can say 10,000 or even 100,000 sentences, and the power of such brainwashing is enormous. It can say black as white and white as black at any time, so that most people can be convinced, and even think that those who do not agree with them are brainwashed. Now, for example, the anti-immigrant sentiment brought about by newspaper propaganda is becoming more and more evident among the workers, and this hostility towards the new immigrants has even led some workers to develop hostile feelings towards Toldo. "This guy is in the same league as the new immigrants", "This guy promotes the theories of the Europeans and is the executor of the European conspiracy against the United States", "This guy does not love the United States" and the like are constantly popping up around him.

And last night's clash was a heavy blow to Toldo. A few days ago, various newspapers published news that a series of crimes against women and children had been committed in a certain workers' neighborhood. Some idle hooligans took advantage of the men's departure to work and attacked their wives and children who stayed at home. By all indications, most of these attacks were carried out by newcomers who could not find work.

Toldo wasn't sure if the newcomers were really the ones who did it. After all, there are all kinds of newcomers, and it is normal for there to be a few criminals in them. And in their current situation, it is not impossible for hunger and cold to steal their hearts. Moreover, even the police department has come forward to prove that they have killed some of the new immigrants who are robbing.

All of a sudden, things were out of Toldo's control. A lot of people are clamoring to teach the newcomers a lesson. Some of them even made Toldor wonder if they were taking Wall Street money. Differing opinions and suspicions have filled the nascent organization with rifts. Immediately after that, the attack was born.

Immediately after the attack, the police department sprang into action, searching for the so-called "suspects" who were responsible for the attack, most of whom were leaders of various trade unions. Even Toldo, who has long advocated solidarity with the new immigrants, is being hunted down.

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"Alas, Scrooge, Morgan and these guys have done a big stupid thing!" Dorothea said.

"What's wrong?" Scrooge put down the text in his hand and asked.

"You see, they provoked the contradictions between the old and the new immigrants, and they used a lot of tricks. Few of the boys of the International Workingmen's Federation believed what they said, and it was good to continue like this. It's good now, but the police department is used to arrest people. What is the attitude of the IWF gang towards the contradiction between the old and the new immigrants, almost all the workers know it, and who would believe that they organized an attack on the new immigrants? Dorothea said, "Think about it again, what these people were preparing before the conflict between the old and new immigrants exploded, I'm afraid that even the most stupid person can figure out who is doing the trick." Does he think that using this as an excuse to arrest all these people will be able to stop Occupy Wall Street? It's not wrong to fool the public, the level of fooling is too low, and it's a big problem for people to see that you're fooling him. This is almost the most hateful way to attract hatred for yourself. I don't think it's a good idea, but this kind of foolish move will contribute to this 'Occupy Wall Street'. On the contrary, if they are not hunted down, because of the rifts within them, they will most likely not be able to make a name for themselves. ”

"'The glasses of the masses are bright', and it is indeed easy to go wrong to completely deceive them as fools. But the arrest of the union leaders was not manipulated by Morgan. Scrooge said quietly.

"Not Morgan?" Dorothea was surprised and said, "Well, judging from the various business cases of Morgan that you explained to me, Morgan should not make such a mistake. But are you sure that this is not something that some of Morgan's guys did on their own, is it the New York police who did something stupid themselves? ”

"It's also possible." Scrooge replied, "It would be best if Morgan thought the same way." ”

"Could it be you?" Dorothea was taken aback, "What's in it for us to do this?" ”

"You think?" Scrooge didn't deny it.

"If that 'Occupy Wall Street' really happens, those bankers on Wall Street will definitely be quite disturbed in a short period of time. Including our venture bank, it will be disrupted. It doesn't seem to be any good in this, right? ”

"If you don't understand, then I've done a good job. Morgan probably couldn't figure it out either. Scrooge smirked.

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"What the hell is going on? How could the fools of the police department come up with such a hand? Who made them do this? Morgan angrily slammed a Japanese vase to the ground.

"Could it be that the police department is clever?" It was said.

This guess may indeed be correct. It's no secret that the New York City police department is incompetent, and it's not like they've done things like they shouldn't do what they should do, and they don't do things like that. Well, anyone who has read "The Police and the Hymn" knows what virtue the American police, especially the New York police, are.

"Don't think like that just yet." Morgan said, "Let's first think about whether someone wants to take advantage of this opportunity to sin on us. Who could it be? Scrooge? Mcdonald? ”

"Mr. Morgan? What are the benefits of Mr. MacDonald doing this? He himself will suffer from this, and he can't see what he can gain from it. ”

"So, is it the European bunch? However, it is not good for them to do this now, anyway, the crisis has already formed, and their withdrawal from the American railroad industry is almost a foregone conclusion. Interfering with us doesn't do them any good, does it? Is it just to disgust us? ”

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"Don't sell it, let's talk about it directly, why pit Morgan for them?" Dorothea asked impatiently.

"Well, I'll sue you for two premises." "First, both we and Morgan are expanding; Second, the world is only that big. ”

"You mean, you want to take this opportunity to weaken Morgan's position, as long as he suffers more than you lose, and in the long run, it will bring us more benefits?"

"Yes, the whole world is a huge market. This market is like a vast grassland, and every capitalist is like a beast hunting on the grassland. Dorothea, do you know what the relationship is between the different beasts of the steppe? Without waiting for Dorothea's answer, Scrooge gave the answer: "They sometimes compromise with each other, but that's only because they're not sure they'll eat each other." Sometimes, the beasts will cooperate together to hunt bigger and more prey, but each beast is constantly thinking about eating the other beasts, and they are constantly evaluating the possibility, cost and return of eating the other. Because for every beast of prey, the maximization of profit is that there is only one predator in the entire grassland. All the beasts want to kill and eat the other beasts, and they are also worried about being killed and eaten by other beasts.

Therefore, even when compromise, or even when cooperating, there are means that can weaken other beasts of prey without harming one's own basic interests and without leading to the failure of hunting, so why not use it? Wouldn't the other beasts of prey do the same at this time? As soon as the lions on the grassland have the opportunity, they will rely on their superiority in strength to kill those cheetahs, and the two huge lion packs, although they will compromise with each other, but once they have the opportunity, they do not mind killing the lone lions in the opposite lion group, especially the lone lion cubs. Once Occupy Wall Street was born, Morgan had to step up and solve the problem. In this way, he is on the front line of class conflict. This time it constantly involved his strength and energy. This would have caused him to lose more power than he already has. Any weakening of him is a victory for us. Do you remember that not so long ago, we still needed to compromise with him and divide a considerable part of our interests among them? Now in this way, they will have much less power to grab things from us in the future. ”

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