In the final analysis, the problem of the privileged class is still the problem of the distribution of interests, and since mankind entered the class society, this problem has always been the core problem, and from the perspective of historical development, the distribution system tends to be fair on the whole.

Of course, this kind of fairness is also divided into objects and countries. Reincarnated in the third brother's field, don't expect to receive the human rights treatment of Northern Europe. It is still luckier to be reincarnated in a developed country than in a developing country.

In other words, this fairness was inconsistent in Russia at different times. For example, if you were reincarnated in the Tsarist era, unless you were an aristocrat or a bourgeoisie, you really shouldn't expect to enjoy good human rights. Ordinary people in the Soviet era inevitably encountered many problems in life, but on the whole they were stronger than in the tsarist era.

However, the average standard of living in the Soviet era is compared with the average standard of living in developed Western Europe. And this difference is the root cause of all the problems. If the whole world is the kind of living conditions of small countries and widows advocated by Lao Tzu, it is estimated that many people still feel happy when they are cattle and horses.

The problem of the Soviet Union was that its opponents were too strong at the same time, so that the common people at home showed a huge gap when compared with each other. Coupled with the fact that the decadent life of a few privileged classes magnifies the gap and pulls hatred, it is natural to be pointed out by thousands of people.

In this case, either learn from "Cao County", and follow the Jin family's father and son's foolish policy of closing off the country, and fooling the common people as fools. Don't let them find out the real gap, so that they can mix day by day. But even Cao County has countless North Korean defectors. It can be seen that blockade and confinement are not the fundamental solution to the problem.

To paraphrase Marx and his old man, there is only one solution to the problem. That is to develop the productive forces. More material goods are produced to meet the needs of the common people. The needs of the big guys are met, and all problems are naturally solved. It's just that that kind of Datong society even adds a premise to Lao Ma -- the productive forces are unprecedentedly developed.

To be honest, the extent to which this unprecedented development will go, it is a very vague indicator of the number of relevant departments. Anyway, even in the 21st century, the common people of the world's first brother, the American imperialists, have not yet lived the life that Lao Ma dreamed of, as for the Middle East oil tyrants and the Nordic Virgin Mary, who are even more trenched than the American imperialists, although they are living a good life. But to say that Datong has been completely realized is also nonsense.

Anyway, in the 22nd century, it will be a question of whether Lao Ma's prophecy can be realized. Moreover, in Li Xiaofeng's view, the key to the problem is not the abundance of materials, but the endless human heart. Let's put it this way, a hundred years ago, the Chinese people were generally struggling below the poverty line, and at that time, for ordinary people, they could have a peaceful life without fighting and still have enough to eat.

And what about a hundred years from now? Is the desire of the Chinese people just to eat a full stomach? I'm afraid that having meat to eat and clothes to wear is not a paradise. To find a wife, you have to have a house and a car, and to achieve the so-called happiness may be more expensive.

And this is the crux of the matter, a hundred years ago, having rice and white flour was considered happy, and today having a house and a car is the most basic. Can the progress of the productive forces really keep up with the expansion of human desires? Let's put it this way, human eyes are always fixed on the group that lives better than them. He also wants to have what others have.

Objectively speaking, this promotes competition and is conducive to the development of human productivity, but at the same time with the expansion of desire. Problems arise when these desires cannot be fulfilled. A simple truth, why do you have to pedal three wheels when you drive a car? Why do you have to rent a house when you live in a luxury villa? Such comparisons are beneficial within the normal range, but when society is highly polarized, it can amplify negative emotions in people's hearts.

This was the case in the Soviet Union, and if you think about it, if the privileged class was only a little stronger than the common people, would the negativity still be so strong? When you are a dignified member of the Central Committee and can only ride a bicycle to work, will ordinary people still feel that walking and taking the bus is unfair and unreasonable?

They may still be dissatisfied with their lives, but the spearhead of venting may not be aimed at the top or the system. This is the period of Huaxia Taizu, the common people lived a tight life, but not many people felt that the people above were all dog officials, and they were all bastards who knocked on the bone and sucked the marrow. Because everyone's gap has not been widened, they are all living a hard life.

But if you want to say that the officials of Taizu's period were all honest and honest and servants of the people, the dog will laugh. There may not be widespread corruption and bribery, but bureaucracy that takes advantage of small advantages is definitely still widespread. Even the more sesame mung beans are bigger, the more common this phenomenon is, back then, a street director was the emperor of the soil, saying that which boy and girl in your family had to be decentralized, saying that you can't join the army and go to college, that is no child's play. If you want to find them to do something, it is also difficult to do and ugly. All in all, they will also "reasonably" take advantage, but this benefit is not the big deal of hundreds of thousands, millions, and tens of millions later, it may be a piece of cloth, a box of cigarettes, or a few catties of meat.

Anyway, to put it bluntly, where there are interests, there will be selfishness, and never expect everyone to be fair and honest, especially the bureaucrats, who hold power, it is too easy to become bad.

Let's put it this way, even if Li Xiaofeng is an immortal, he can't solve the problem of people's hearts, not everyone can always adhere to their ideals and beliefs, more people are like ordinary people, they have seven emotions and six desires, three aunts and six uncles, and they can't get rid of human affection.

It is unrealistic to expect that everyone will become Dzerzhinsky through indoctrination and indoctrination, and Dzerzhinsky is always a minority in this world, and more ordinary people are good at exploiting loopholes. Therefore, if you want to solve practical problems by ideals, it is equivalent to painting bread to satisfy hunger.

Li Xiaofeng is definitely not an idealist, so he knows very well that the privileged class cannot be eradicated for the time being, and what he can do is to limit the privileges of the privileged class to a reasonable range, so as not to cause a huge gap between the rich and the poor, leading to more and more hatred and dissatisfaction.

Therefore, what Li Xiaofeng wants to do is not to completely eliminate the privileged class, it is a stupid thing that only pure naïve idealists do, and it is thankless. If he did. I'm afraid not much better than the end of Khrushchev in history. Immediately, they will be knocked to the ground by the large and small revolutionary generals who have risen up in large and small ways.

What Li Xiaofeng wants to do is to limit the size of the privileged class and the size of the privilege. It is enough to keep it within what society can tolerate. Not to mention. If the whole country is bitter, I am afraid that the people will be scattered and the country will not be a country.

Once this is clear, the goal of the reform is to eliminate the more excessively privileged classes and put these unfettered privileges in a cage. For example, the first is the lifelong system for leading cadres, and the second is whether leading cadres can be promoted or demoted. These two are too bad.

The first one is tantamount to giving the privileged class an iron job, and they will not lose their jobs anyway. It doesn't matter if you do something or how you do it, right? As for the second one, the official will only get bigger and bigger, so what are you afraid of, anyway, if you make a mistake, you won't lose your black yarn hat, and it's not very convenient to engage in a little power-for-money transaction.

As the head of the organization, Li Xiaofeng still has a lot of say in this regard. Anyway, if these two articles are implemented first in the party, the party members will be stuck and the ranks of the Soviet cadres will be tightened. Since the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, under the pretext of defending the motherland, Li Xiaofeng and Ruzutak have dealt ruthlessly against the ranks of cadres, and all bureaucratic atmosphere is serious. Whoever occupies the pit and does not, as long as you are guilty of it. Properly to lose office. Even if your brother Lao Tzu is an old revolutionary, under the premise of the Great Patriotic War, no one dares to say good things about them.

As for the old revolution, the old revolution must be held accountable for its ineffective work, and those who are old but have low ability have also been swept away in this war, and they will either retire to the second line or retire for the elderly.

To be honest, there was a lot of pressure at one point. That is, Li Xiaofeng and Luzutak can only withstand it when they join forces. And thanks to this war, under the threat of life and death, no one dares to be sloppy, and this invisibly reduces considerable resistance.

All in all, the purification of the contingent of cadres has been effective, and although it has not completely solved the problem, it has really enriched the middle and grassroots units of the party with a group of young cadres who are capable and willing to do practical things. Even Lenin and Trotsky were quite satisfied with this.

Of course, Li Xiaofeng knows very well that this does not mean that the reform has been successful, to tell the truth, this is a fart reform, and it is not good to start the reform at all. What someone really cares about is the economic system, which is of little significance if it is not changed.

Moving this part is reform, and the previous one is only a perfect employment system, not a reform. According to the experience that Li Xiaofeng learned from later generations, the planned economy was still somewhat useful in the period when the country was poor and white, and it was able to concentrate forces on doing big things, which was conducive to production. But after this period, its negative effects will explode, and it will become more and more rigid and anachronistic.

In Li Xiaofeng's view, 1960 was a watershed for the Soviet Union, and before this year, the planned economy could still be maintained and developed, and after that, it could basically only be regarded as a year after that.

Why? This also has to start with the economic situation in the Soviet Union, which after the October Revolution is needless to say, it can be regarded as poor and white. In the following 20 years and more, it is necessary to concentrate state resources on construction, and the superiority of the planned economy can be fully manifested. Without World War II, the Soviet Union would have been able to accumulate its original primitives around 1950.

However, due to the outbreak of World War II, the tragic war swallowed up a lot of previous efforts, and considering the time required to resume production and the sluggish world environment, it is very likely that the Soviet Union will only be able to complete this accumulation around 1960.

And after that, the problems are about to start to erupt, what is the problem? Lack of more motivation. In the planned economy, all the national economy and the people's livelihood in the whole country depend on planning, and the number of commodities produced by a factory or enterprise completely depends on the state's plan, and the state says that you can produce as much as you want, and you don't have to worry about what you sell.

Under this system, there is a complete disconnect between enterprises and consumer groups. For enterprises, the state orders them to produce what they produce, and there is a lack of incentive to innovate. For consumer groups, all consumer goods are established, and there is no choice at all.

The consequences of this are simple: the company doesn't care about customer feedback at all, it is only responsible for the country's plans anyway, and in fact it has no choice of what it produces. It's pretty dull. If it is a closed economic circle, it is better to say that it is better to live its own small life behind closed doors.

But no country in the world was completely self-sufficient, and even the United States and the Soviet Union had to import a considerable amount of industrial raw materials and other materials. There are also a bunch of poor relatives and younger brothers to be sent away. And all of these things actually have to be exchanged for domestic products.

The system of the planned economy can hardly cope with the competition of other countries. It is difficult for the state's overall planning alone to counter the market economy of other rivals. After all, the latter is more flexible and more consumer-oriented. And as a result, they either close their doors and live a small life. Either they can only be exploited by exporting primary raw materials.

Look at the votes of the member states (including Russia) after the collapse of the Soviet Union, because of the lack of competitiveness of industry, quickly faded from the international market, and with the end of the old enterprises of the Soviet era, the road to deindustrialization was passively completed. In the end, one by one, they were reduced to selling oil to make a living.

Why did this happen, you must know that the heavy industry in the Soviet era was still quite awesome, and how it was all over in the blink of an eye. To put it bluntly, there is a disconnect between planning and reality, and the planned economy of the Soviet era was actually a closed market. When there is no external competition, it can still claim hegemony in the socialist circle. And once the Soviet Union itself dies, it will not be able to maintain this economic circle, lose most of the market, and it will naturally be finished.

What's more, the planned economy of the Soviet Union was an economic situation in which the state dominated everything, and to put it bluntly, the people at the core of a country decided everything, and their will represented everything. And we all know that people make mistakes, and once there is a problem in the decision-making of these people, the entire national economy and people's livelihood will be affected. Everything is left to the personal will of the supreme leader. He said that he had to produce as much crude oil, coal, and steel as he wanted, even if it didn't make sense.

Plus during the Cold War. In response to the threat of NATO, the Soviet Union was frantically expanding its military, which in turn squeezed out a large share of the plan. Then add a large number of little brothers who are looking for big brother to fight the autumn wind, and the final result is that the Soviet plan is completely unrealistic, resulting in the basic stagnation of investment in the field of people's livelihood in the mid-sixties, and the result is naturally that it has become polio, and it is no wonder that it does not collapse.

To change all this, the point is very simple: to clarify the goals of the future development of the Soviet Union. To be honest, the Soviet leadership was a pot of porridge on this issue. Judging from their logic, the US imperialists are evil enemies, and the enemy is absolutely immortal, so in order to ensure the survival of the Soviet Union, it is necessary to fight against the US imperialism at all costs, and to fight the Yankees in all fields.

From a long-term point of view, this idea is correct, the Soviet Union and the US imperialism do have irreconcilable ******** contradictions, and it is indeed the death of you. Later, didn't the U.S. imperialists give life to Lao Maozi and evolve peacefully? However, the leaders of the CPSU ignored the fact that the national security of the Soviet Union was actually guaranteed, and that it was impossible for US imperialism to eliminate the Soviet Union by military means, whether as the P5 or the world's top nuclear powers. The urgency of its national security is actually not that strong.

As far as the Soviet Union is concerned, if it maintains a strategic defensive posture and maintains a relatively reasonable military force, there is no problem at all in continuing to hold on to each other. What is more strange about Lao Maozi is that he is completely aimed at competing for hegemony with US imperialism, and what is even more peculiar is that this kind of hegemony actually does not do much good to the national interests of the Soviet Union.

To analyze it simply, as a country with extremely rich resources, the Soviet Union hardly needed many raw materials from other countries, unlike Britain, which was not as dependent on the supply of its colonies as it was, and as a basically closed economic circle, it did not need any overseas markets to dump goods, which also determined that he did not need to pay too much attention to maritime interests, and even did not need to fight for sea power.

In this case, the Soviet Union did not have any irreconcilable contradictions for the traditional capitalist countries such as Britain and the United States. If there is a contradiction, it is also ********, and it is entirely based on the theoretical conception of the world revolution. But truth be told, was it really good for the USSR?

Supporting the poor brothers in the revolution can certainly expand the territory and geopolitical influence, so that the Soviet Union will no longer be isolated. But economically, it was a completely loss-making business, and the Soviet Union almost did not need the raw materials for primary industry in the homes of these poor brothers, but had to provide a steady stream of support.

And these poor brothers are of even greater significance to export-oriented economies such as Britain and the United States, and the Soviet Union is losing money by itself and cutting off people's money, you say they can bear it.

All in all, the USSR paid too much unnecessary price for the title of Big Brother, from the point of view of national interests. After the victory of World War II, the national security environment of the Soviet Union has been greatly improved, most of Europe is under their sphere of influence, and the strategic depth has almost been pushed to the doorstep of Britain and the United States.

How much appetite to eat a big meal, the gastrointestinal function of the Soviet Union was actually overloaded after the victory in World War II, and at this time, it was too ugly to eat and cause indigestion.

In Li Xiaofeng's view, the Soviet Union should stop and rest, and it is only right to eat two stomach and diet tablets to eliminate food...... (To be continued.) )

PS: Bow and thank you to the Akula-class nuclear submarine observers, the Emperor Lanhua and Comrade Juventus!