Weishenme: What would an American in the Great Depression do while pouring milk into the gutter and leaving the crops rotting in the ground, while starving to death by the thousands?

Because the economic crisis of capitalism, in essence, is diametrically opposed to the natural and man-made disasters that people have in the past - it is not because natural disasters and wars destroy too much and cause what is left not enough to be distributed by so many people; Rather, it is the opposite, because the capitalists produce too many things, but there is not so much market demand, which leads to the "disease of affluence" of overstocking commodities and crowding the capitalist production chain!

The essence of the economic crisis is that the minority occupies the majority of wealth, resulting in the lack of purchasing power and insufficient demand of the majority - since the completion of the industrial revolution in the early 19th century, workers have begun to be able to produce far more than their basic needs, but they have been squeezed and cannot consume so many things, so human beings have begun to worry about overproduction - every general outbreak of overproduction means that the economic crisis has come again.

At that time, the capitalist countries usually had only two ways to solve the economic crisis, one was to use war to open up new markets - for example, the Opium War, but unfortunately when the whole earth was swept up in the capitalist market, there was no new market to explore; Another way is to use war to wipe out some of the productive forces - say, two shijie wars...... It's crazy to look at it -- it's not like the ancient nomads, who had to go into the agricultural areas to plunder in order to get the supplies for survival; It's because there are so many things that are produced, and the great powers are going to war with each other. Use the lives of the common people to destroy the excess productive forces, and turn around so that the capitalists can continue to make money?!!

But there is no way, the early version of capitalism was so absurd - absurd to the point of using human life to consume excess wealth!

Or or. is so absurd that he has to rely on his own woman's money to sell his skin and flesh to promote military power and conquer Shijie......

“…… Alas, as the saying goes, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and on this miserable shijie shrouded in haze, there is no happy and peaceful heaven anywhere. What if it were a great power? Don't look at how arrogant the Japanese are on Chinese soil now, they are also living a miserable life in their own country! The low-level soldiers were forcibly conscripted to 'pledge allegiance to the emperor' by a postcard, and the families in the countryside were deprived of the main labor force to support the girders. had no choice but to sell his daughter into Qinglouhua Street, and even resold it all the way to Nanyang and Shanghai...... Otherwise, in the green building of Shanghai. Where did all these Japanese girls come from? ”

When it came to the topic of misfortune, Wang Qiu also casually interjected, "...... Perhaps while a Japanese soldier was burning, killing, and plundering Chinese soil, his sister or even his daughter stripped naked in a hall in Shanghai. Thousands of people were ridden by our 'Zhina' and 10,000 people! ”

However. After these members of the underground party, who looked very much like rookies, talked endlessly about their tragic experiences, Wang Qiu and other "future comrades" did not have time to move on to the next topic, but they changed their words again and talked about the Soviet Union in the north and the various red base areas in China.

-- According to the description of these underground party members, in this Shijie, tormented by war, poverty, and economic crisis, only the "communist paradise" of the Soviet Union is a suitable place for human beings to live. There is no war and turmoil, no economic crisis. There is no unemployment frenzy, everyone has something to eat. There is a house to live in and even health insurance...... Therefore, there was a long queue outside the Soviet embassy in the United States asking for visas, and 100,000 technicians immigrated to the Soviet Union every year. If the Chinese really have no way, I am afraid that they would have wanted to "go to heaven" for a long time.

As for the red base areas in China, the conditions were naturally much more difficult, and they had to endure the brutal encirclement and suppression of the reactionaries again and again. But at least the system of exploitation was abolished there, and the common people had land, hope, and justice - and many began to regret that they had not been able to move from Shanghai with the Party Central Committee, so that they had to continue to suffer here. If he had been able to go to the Soviet zone, someone might not have died of overwork...... Even if you die on the battlefield defending the gains of the revolution, it is at least better than being exhausted to death in the factories of the capitalists......

…… Well, indeed, while the entire capitalist Shijie was plunged into the Great Depression by too much wealth and insufficient demand, the publicly-owned Soviet Union was able to continuously expand production without regard for profits. Because under the public ownership system, enterprises may worry about any reason after making a product, such as quality, style, function, etc. - the coarse, black and hard Soviet goods are indeed terrible in these aspects - but at least they will never worry about creating too much: the big deal is to distribute the benefits directly to the people, and there is no need to care about profits anyway. This may be a waste of resources, or it may not conform to the laws of the market...... But it was possible to distribute the product, and not to fall into an economic crisis by producing too much - which allowed the Soviet Union to double its industrial power every five or six years, while Western capitalism continued to abandon factories...... In this sad era of decay and sorrow in the West, the Soviet Union went against the current and became the second industrial power of Shijie!

Therefore, compared with the United States, where millions of unemployed people were like locusts in the Great Depression, 70 million people ate their last meal without a meal, and retired veterans were slaughtered in Washington, the rationed living supply enjoyed by Soviet citizens under the Jihua economy can be regarded as very happy in any way. And if we compare it with today's China, where everyone has a job and food to eat -- even if the food is relatively poor, let's not forget that China at this time does not know how many people have no food -- and it is absolutely a paradise on earth.

-- At this time, the Great Famine in Ukraine had long since ended, and Soviet citizens were rationed 600 to 800 grams of bread a day, much better than the vast majority of Chinese at that time. As for the legendary terrible purge, it has not yet begun, and Comrade Kirov is still alive and well.

However, the various Red Army base areas today ...... Even if you don't consider the problem of enemy encirclement and suppression, it is definitely not a suitable place for these people to live.

“…… Ahem, although I don't want to discourage your revolutionary enthusiasm. But in order to prevent you from suffering because of this, I'll tell you the truth! ”

Wang Qiu scratched his nose and spoke. “…… It may have been a relatively fortunate thing for you personally that you did not withdraw to the Soviet zone with the Party Central Committee. Otherwise, with such a complex background of yours, I'm afraid that at least half of them will be targeted for rebellion......"

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-- Suppression, rectification, and Cultural Revolution...... In the history of the Communist Party of China, these are three terms that are both disgusting and creepy.

And in the midst of all three. The CCP's early purge was particularly crazy, bloody, and brutal -- a mean right-wing intellectual once summed it up quite brilliantly: The core of the purge is murder; The core of rectification is brainwashing; The core of the Cultural Revolution was the rectification of people.

It can be seen from this that if we say that rectification can be regarded as a strict education. The Cultural Revolution was a bit of a radical cultural struggle, which was basically mentally rectified, not physically eliminated - it was another thing to commit suicide if you couldn't endure the humiliation...... Then the rebellion is a massacre, which can be described as a careless disregard for human life:

- Suspicion. Torture. Bending into tricks, biting people indiscriminately, and then arresting and severely torture those who have confessed, recruiting more people, and then arresting more people to torture them...... Just like a pyramid scheme, there are more and more downlines, and more and more moles are caught. Many people know that if they don't confess, they will die, and if they do, they will die. But because he couldn't endure the extremely cruel corporal torture, he just wanted to die quickly. So he had no choice but to confess his guilt and bite out others indiscriminately.

As a result, the suppression of rebellion carried out in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet region caused the chairmen of the village soviets in some localities to change one term and kill another, and to change four or five terms within a year. The Red 25th Army originally had 12,000 men, but only 6,000 remained after 43 days of purge. The suppression of the rebellion in the western Soviet region of Hunan and Hubei reduced the number of more than 50,000 Red Army troops to 4,000, killing only 5 party members......

Since the consequences are so serious, the CCP wants to suppress the rebellion in the early days? Do you want to use the method of frantically slashing and killing your own comrades to maintain the "purity of the party"?

There are three main reasons for this:

First, at that time, the Red Army was in its infancy, the command system was disordered, and the components of the party, government, and military systems were all very complicated, and some opportunists and Kuomintang spies were indeed mixed in. In the midst of the encirclement and suppression wars, the strongholds of the Red Army and the guerrillas were often denounced by traitors and killed.

In addition, with the deepening of the "purging and suppression," the Kuomintang sent some spies to lurk in the "bandit areas" in order to "cut down the grass and eradicate the roots" and prevent the Communists from returning and setting up new strongholds, thus adding difficulties to the guerrilla struggle in the base areas. For example, Zhang Guotao cracked a Kuomintang spy organization in the Hubei-Henan-Anhui base area, and Jihua wanted to disguise himself as a wounded soldier to infiltrate the rear of the Red Army and blast the Red Army's field hospital, and also got the cooperation of some other traitors.

-- Most of the strong fortresses were conquered from within, and the difficult and difficult situation of struggle and the shadow of death loomed over the Red Army at any time, causing many incidents of mutiny and flight in the early Red Army, inflicting heavy losses on troops and organizations again and again.

The extremely grim war situation greatly strengthened the Red Army leaders' sense of danger. Therefore, taking precautions, taking precautions, and thoroughly investigating and cleaning up the contingent itself have become the first choice of many leaders, and this special form of struggle has emerged......

Therefore, the suppression of rebellion is not entirely a matter of chasing after the wind, creating something out of nothing, and fabricating accusations, but has a certain factual basis.

Second, in the early days, the CCP was still very immature and did not know that there should be room for intra-party struggle. In addition, many leading cadres with unhealthy conduct have seized the opportunity to eradicate dissidents in the course of carrying out the task of suppressing rebellion, engaged in unscrupulous acts, and extorted confessions on a large scale, thus causing the expansion of the suppression of rebellion. Many cadres from the White Army had no excuse at all when they were killed, the reason was that they did not stand firm and killed the insurance ...... Not to mention that in some base areas, it was actually the hidden Kuomintang spies who presided over the suppression...... What kind of situation will be tossed in the end, it is natural to imagine.

Third, no organization can avoid internal factional struggles, and the CCP is no exception - in the early stage of the Agrarian Revolutionary War, the Party Central Committee was still stranded in Shanghai, and it was disconnected from the red base areas scattered all over the poor countryside, which caused countless contradictions and conflicts between the central and local governments: the local Red Army believed that the special commissioners parachuted from the central government were blindly directing and playing the piano; The Party Central Committee also thundered over the flagrant disobedience of the local Red Army...... So they treated each other with simple, brutal and even bloody means of dissent, so that many heroic Red Army soldiers did not die at the guns of the enemy. but died under the butcher's knife of his comrades.

What's worse is that this practice will make the perpetrator have an addictive feeling, plus countless people take the opportunity to declare personal vendetta and abuse of power...... It's been a mess to Zuihou. It's not clear who is right and who is wrong, and there are countless little people who are lying down and getting shot.

Therefore, for these rookie underground parties with complex backgrounds, the Soviet area during the period of the purge may be more dangerous than the white terror of Shanghai.

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After listening to the descriptions of the "future comrades" about the suppression of rebellion in the Soviet areas, combined with some bad rumors that I had vaguely heard before, and some public propaganda by the Kuomintang authorities that was originally considered "slander...... The underground party members, who were originally full of beautiful reverie about the "paradise of the proletariat", could not help but be greatly depressed for a while. There is a sense of despair of disillusionment.

However, General Political Commissar Hu Dexing, who had just rushed from Gu Mansha's house, saw this very openly: revolutions are like this, when the French played revolution at the end of the eighteenth century. Isn't it the same party that fights against differences, killing people and turning the world upside down? And the Russian revolution seems to be the same: don't you see what happened to Trotsky, the "father of the Red Army", now? Only if you are ruthless enough to yourself can you be even more ruthless to the enemy!

“…… Comrades, there is no heaven on this shijie! Where there are people, there is organization. Where there is organization, there is struggle. There is no way to avoid this, in the factory, in the village, have you not encountered the situation of forming a gang? Our party is also composed of ordinary people, and there are also retaliations, intrigues, intrigues, and frame-ups. This is true of officialdom regardless of dynasty or generation...... Do you really think that as long as you shout comrade, people will take care of you as a 'proletarian brother'? Slogans are slogans. Reality is reality! ”

And Wang Qiu and others also quickly changed their tone, declaring: "The future is bright, and the road is tortuous." We should not doubt, retreat, or give up our ...... because of the slightest difficulty in front of us." He then said that the Chinese Communists' exaggeration in carrying out the purge and rebellion was also an erroneous idea learned from the bad example of the Kuomintang -- when they found out that the party was divided into the Communist Party, they "would rather kill 1,000 people by mistake than let one person slip through the net," but they unjustly killed hundreds of thousands of their own people in one breath. Since then, all kinds of unjust cases have emerged in an endless stream, and people are often charged with the title of "co-bandits" for various unbelievable reasons.

For example, on today's Hainan Island, there is a slave owner of the Li nationality, the eldest young master, who is really reactionary and has nothing to say about class origin, and he can't talk about progress in terms of ideology, but because he offended people, he was labeled a communist by the Kuomintang, first killed his father, and then used his stockade as a Red Army base to encircle and suppress...... At this point, the eldest young master just doesn't want to make a revolution.

“…… According to our history, this 'red slave owner' will be surrounded and suppressed until the winter of 1943, that is, nine years later, before it officially connects with the party organization. And before that...... Is there such a strange thing as a 'proletarian slave owner' in this world? ”

Wang Qiu spread his hands and said to the underground party who were stunned -- When it comes to big plans, the Kuomintang has thrown us ten streets!

-- In the early days of the Red Army, there were indeed many people who did not agree with the communist ideals, and even belonged to the extremely stubborn and decadent opposition, but they were framed by the enemies in power and "attacked by the Communist Party," so they had to go up the mountain and carry the red flag...... It is said that there are many "red base areas" that sell dog meat on sheep's heads, which were originally artificially concocted by the Kuomintang in this way, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are driving away fish and adding fuel to the fire.

However, after these extremely unreliable guys raised the red flag, it was the turn of the CCP to feel the headache......

Zuihou, Professor Yang said this summing up:

“…… Comrades, everything in this world is done by hope: the farmer does not peel a grain of corn if he did not want it to grow into a grain; A bachelor will not marry a wife if he has not wished to have children; Nor will a businessman go to work if he does not wish to make a profit from it. The reason why you joined the revolution is also because you want to save China...... If that is the case, why should we be swayed by the mistakes of other revolutionaries? ”

-- The nascent red parties were not perfect, but there was no better choice.

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Next, the day after the streptomycin injection, Gu Mansha came to her senses. It seems that because antibiotics have never been used in this era, and the effect is particularly good, after another two weeks, she has basically recovered.

At the same time, Wang Qiu and others were forced by Ms. Xiao Se to have no choice, so they had to pinch their noses and embark on a journey to find the fossils of "Peking Man...... And General Political Commissar Hu, who had received a lot of funds in vain, seemed to be a little reluctant, saying that he had been in Beiping for a few years, was familiar with the land, had a wide range of contacts, and could help, so he also took a few unemployed underground party members and a newly recovered female disciple Gu Mansha to the north with Wang Qiu and others. (To be continued......)