"As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers." Lear translated Taezu's quote into English, ignoring the fact that others wondered in their minds where this was a common saying (Note 1).

"If we want to start our revolution, I think our immediate priority is to expand our organization."

"Whether we are going to build our own army or even a country belonging to the communists, we must have a large number of stalwarts and this number will not be hundreds, thousands, but hundreds of thousands, or even millions."

"If you don't have this number of backbone members, you can't support a country with enough national strength, and you can't support a force with enough combat effectiveness."

"Now we have only 200 members, which is not even enough for us to independently control a mobile fleet, and if we want to keep the development of our organization on the right track, this number is far from enough."

"Please wait a moment, Comrade Secretary," a man suddenly interrupted Lear, "I have a question to ask." ”

Lear paused, waiting for a question.

The name of the person who asked the question was Zhong Jian Zhang, which sounds very strange, but who said that the official language of the Universal Century is English, so the first and second names of the good people became this virtue.

Zhang Zhongjian and Lear are graduates of the same class, and they are also old members who joined the Philosophy Society in the early days of its establishment, so Lear is still relatively familiar with him.

When I heard his name for the first time, Lear's heart was very much about complaining, and other people who don't know Chinese culture should be counted, Lear is a white-skinned and yellow-hearted egg man, and he doesn't know the Three Heroes of Wind and Dust, and the parents of the Zhang family who named their children as bearded guests are probably quite fanatical martial arts lovers.

Zhang Zhongjian is a graduate of the Fleet Command Department, and now holds the rank of second lieutenant and serves as the first officer of the Frankenstein, a Mse-class fast cruiser of the Space Attack Force.

In the Philosophy Society, he was the head of a study group.

He questioned Lear: "Comrade Secretary, you just said that you should make the expansion of the organization the focus of the next stage of work. ”

"But isn't that what we've been doing?" "In fact, we've reached a limit for our organization's expansion right now," he said. ”

"Under the premise of secrecy and avoiding the focus of the Ministry of the Interior, we have no way to expand more rapidly, in fact, our expansion has been facing great difficulties recently, and many objects of development value have been influenced by Zeon propaganda and have begun to believe in cosmic independence."

"How do we do this in this situation?"

"Well, Comrade Zhang's question is very good, and this is exactly what I want to explain next," Lear was filled with an extreme sense of disobedience, but there was no way to do it: "The reason why he just mentioned a series of problems in our current expansion is that in the past, our development targets were all military academy students or active duty soldiers. ”

"This is determined by our own nature, we are an organization that originated in a military academy, and the main members are all active military personnel, and the peculiarities of the military profession mean that we can only develop objects in the army."

"So the next thing we have to do is to change our thinking, and we will think about how to open up the situation in the army to how to develop comrades in other groups!"

"Not only all mankind, but SIDE3 alone has more than 1.9 billion proletarians, who will be the fundamental support for our development, and only when our ideals are recognized by these people can we truly stand firm."

Lear said as he slapped the table heavily to strengthen his tone: "If they can stand with us, then whether it is the Federation or Zeon, we are already invincible!" ”

After hearing Lear's words, the participants began to exchange opinions, and after a while, someone began to ask: "Comrade Secretary, I agree with your opinion in principle, but how should we implement it in terms of implementation?" ”

"As you said, we need to develop non-military members, but at the moment the main body of our organization is the military, when we can barely have access to the outside world for a long time, how do we develop members?"

"Yes, not to mention that now that the war is about to start, almost all of us here are going to the battlefield, and in this case, it is really impossible to say that we want to develop members."

"Our organization is inherently deficient, and the vast majority of its members are Zeon soldiers, and we simply cannot rule out the impact of Zeon's military operations unless we can fully retire from the army。。。。。。

"Impossible, just because we are all soldiers, the organization can now master a certain amount of armed forces, do we want to give up?"

"As long as the armed forces have officers, we can easily rebuild, and it is more important to maintain our independence than this, right?"

"Please be quiet," Lear said, seeing that the meeting was beginning to be chaotic, "and I have a preliminary idea here as to how this work should be done. ”

Hearing Lear speak, everyone stopped and began to look at Lear.

"As you have just said, our military status restricts our freedom of movement," Lear said, "but it is impossible to say that we are all discharged, not only because we must have comrades in the army, but also because Zeon is facing war, and it is impossible to allow more than 200 people at a time, and all of them are retired officers, and if we do that, we will only become the target of the Ministry of the Interior." ”

"So my opinion is that at present, our comrades in the army will maintain the status quo first, and when the war begins, I will use the power of Alxstein to successively discharge some of us in the name of injury, illness, and reemployment, etc., and these veterans will shoulder the mission of establishing branches in various parts of the earth circle."

"Of course, this work can be started now," Lear continued: "Although the number is relatively small, there are actually non-military people in our organization, and some comrades did not choose to join the army after graduating from the military academy, but chose other professions, such as Comrade Rock Henison, who was the representative of the former non-commissioned officer military academy self-study group. ”

Rock Hennison is a cadet who is one year younger than Lear, after graduating from Lear, he became the group representative of the next non-commissioned officer academy after the self-study organization transferred from the military academy to the army, he did not join the army after graduation, but instead inherited his father's career and became a journalist, and is now on Earth, so he did not attend this meeting.

"I will ask them to prepare for the construction of the branch first, does anyone have a different opinion?"

This was nothing, and it was quickly approved unanimously.

The topic is open again.

"Comrade Secretary, although our goal is to expand our organization among the proletarians, isn't this too broad?"

"Although they are all proletarians, they are also superior and inferior within themselves, and it is difficult for us to reap the desired results from some of them."

"Yes, I have a proposal on this subject," Lear took over, "and I suggest that we should develop an organization among the proletarians that the working class should be predominant." ”

"Our comrades should go deep among the workers, work closely with the trade unions, but not rely on them completely, and must build branches that go deep among the workers, with the focus on mobilizing the workers."

"Just as the comrade just said, although they are all proletarians, there are also high and low levels within the proletarians, and some proletarians, such as white-collar workers, cultural workers, teachers, and so on, although they essentially sell their labor power for a living, they generally do not consider themselves to be the same group as the working class."

"The relatively privileged living conditions and the looser work make them lack a high sense of crisis, and under the influence of theoretical democracy (i.e., a democracy in theory), they will mistakenly think that they are the masters of the country, and that they will not wake up until they have suffered a terrible blow compared to the revolutionary working class, although they are also proletarians."

The so-called proletarians, the concept is that all people can be easily replaced, and it is easy to fall into poverty because of unemployment, usually people do not regard the professions of white-collar workers, doctors, teachers as proletarians, this view is incorrect, they are just a group of high-level workers who sell their brains, they can be easily replaced, and they will also fall into poverty because of unemployment, although they are better than the working class, but there is no essential difference.

If these people do not have capital, do not have irreplaceable unique skills, cannot stop selling their brains, and cannot exist in isolation from industrial society, how can they not be considered proletarians?

So, there is no so-called middle class at all in the cosmic century.

In Marx's time, the profession of white-collar workers had not yet risen, and the intellectual workers at that time were the ruling class of society, and the level of social education had not reached the point where these people could be easily replaced, so Marx excluded all mental workers in his writings, thinking that they were the middle class or even the petty bourgeoisie, and that 'only those who engage in manual labor are the proletariat'.

Of course, this view is completely wrong in the context of the cosmic century, which is why Lear hastened to modernize his theory when he established the Philosophical Self-Study Society, because there are many places where the most primitive communist theory has not kept up with the times.

"So in the process of enlarging the organisation, we should keep a close grip on the working class, and as for the proletarians who consider themselves middle class, I propose that they adhere to one principle."

"We should not actively absorb, but we should not exclude them, and the vetting of these people should be stricter than that of the working class, but when they are determined to be our comrades, we must treat them equally, and we must prohibit discrimination in the name of vigilance."

"Not only them, but if comrades from other classes, even the propertied classes, appear, we must uphold this principle."

"Does anyone have a different opinion?"

"Nope."

"Seconded."

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Note 1: The power of more people is the evaluation of the phenomenon of cross-administrative cooperation in the development of rural water conservancy and infrastructure during the leap forward period.

Because there is no CCP in this worldline, this familiar phrase does not exist.

Note 2: Regarding the rationality of organizational expansion, I personally do not think there is any problem here, taking the CCP as an example, from the founding of the Party in 1921 to the Third Congress, there were only 400 full members, and the CCP really began to develop rapidly in 1938, after the CCP passed the "Resolution on the Mass Development of Party Members", according to the "In order to undertake the sacred task of expanding and consolidating the anti-Japanese national united front to completely defeat Japanese imperialism, a strong Party organization is necessary" In less than a year, the CCP expanded 12 times in size, and by the end of 1938 it had 500,000 full-fledged members.

Not to mention that the size of the working group in the cosmic century is far above the people in the mountainous areas of northern Shaanxi, and the 2 billion people of SIDE3 alone cannot be compared, and their cultural level cannot be compared, with these advantages, the foundation of the communist revolution in the cosmic century is much better than in the CCP era.

Of course, there are some places where they are not comparatively weak, such as the fact that the Philosophical Self-Study Society is not an open political party, and there are not enough people who can be used to expand the party organization.

Because of the rapid expansion of the party organization, various contradictions arose, which led to the CCP having to carry out a rectification movement in 1942, which is also something that has to be mentioned, and Lear, as a traverser, will of course learn the lessons of the martyrs