Chapter 45: A Ghost

The streets of Newsal are crowded with people.

Today is the day when the expeditionary force returns home.

Having just experienced the Holocaust a year earlier, Neusal is gradually recovering some of his life, and everyone is trying to survive in their own way.

There are jobs in short supply everywhere on this planet. The massacre cost Newsal a large number of skilled workers, as well as young adults. To make matters worse, many children were also killed in the massacre.

Children are the future of a society. Without enough children as a population bedrock, entire societies will fall into aging and demographic decline within a few decades.

In order to turn this unfortunate prospect into a better future, Dussart worked with the Interior Committee to develop a detailed set of "marriage promotion" guidelines.

All local civil affairs committees and other bodies shall organize active social gatherings among young unmarried men and women of appropriate age. Networking content ranges from proms to picnics to sightseeing. At the same time, the Civil Affairs Committee also renovated and reused the expropriated aristocratic villas, turning them into sanatoriums and nurseries.

In order to ensure that unmarried men and women had access to a variety of settings, all women of school age had to be educated and had to be mixed with other male students, and the traditional system of separate schools for boys and girls had been abolished. In the course of work, men and women are paid as equally as possible. In the case of piece-rate work, women should be provided with more labour protection and daily necessities to ensure basic equality of income between men and women.

Equality between men and women is one of the fundamental policies of Newsar, and this is not a slogan, but a guiding direction that must be implemented.

Equality between men and women derives from the "Dussart Theory" that "all men are created equal". If the emperor and the poor are born equal, then there is no reason why men and women should not be equal.

In Dussand's theory, men and women, although there are some objective biological differences, are still essentially the same people. If in practice there is a serious inequality between men and women...... Wouldn't that make this theory an empty phrase altogether?

Equality between men and women is of great significance for increasing the population, promoting marriage and childbearing, and improving the quality of the labor force. It was only in the course of his work that Dussaint himself began to realize that this matter had to be done.

But...... The promotion of gender equality has not been smooth, and it can even be said that there is great resistance.

Not only were ordinary people uninterested in Dussand's plan, but even the other members of the Interior Committee did not quite understand what Dussander was doing with such a strong effort to promote gender equality.

Even Escobar, who has always unconditionally supported Dussand, privately advised Dussand, "We have to invest a lot of resources to do this now, and we may not be able to do it well." Why don't you wait a little longer and wait until Newsar's situation is a little more stable before you start working on this? โ€

Although Escobar's advice was a relatively conservative and error-prone approach, Dussander did not intend to follow the advice of the already much thinner chairman of the Interior Committee.

"A hundred years is too short, we are only seizing the day." "For hundreds, if not millennia, years, of men's use of their physical superiority and absolute dominance in society as a whole has benefited them too much," Dussaint said to his trusted friend. Others may have countless reasons to oppose equality between men and women, but we can't โ€“ especially not because we can't. โ€

"We are talking about the creation of all men equal, and we are speaking of opposition to exploitation by the privileged classes, the royal family and the aristocracy." Dussaint frowned and asked, "If you are restrained because you are afraid of the displeasure of others, what class privilege is you against?" The royalty and the nobles are not only dissatisfied, they are going to pick up guns and kill us. โ€

After listening to Dussand's words, Escobar fell into a brief silence before asking, "So what should we do next?" Start with education security? โ€

"Education security is one thing, but it can't just start here." Dussander thought for a moment and said, "First of all, start with the People's Army, the Internal Affairs Bureau, and other government departments that we directly manage. Make sure that enough positions are set aside for women in the recruitment process โ€“ but education is not left behind. โ€

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After a period of detailed discussion, Dussand and Escobar finally reached a consensus.

Absolute fairness is completely impossible under any circumstances. Even if a saint is alive and wants to reverse an outdated concept that has been around for hundreds of years, it will take time to complete.

There is no way to be absolutely fair, so we also need to move closer to "relative fairness". And, in order to ensure that "relative equity" reaches everyone, Dussander argues that the first thing that should be ensured is the education of every girl of school age.

In Newsal, there are no barriers to women's education, at least from an administrative point of view. Like men, they can attend schools funded by the Nussar Civil Council after the age of six.

While the reality looks pretty good, that's where the "good" part ends.

In schools, not only are men and women taught in separate classes, they are even taken to a building in a school dedicated to teaching women, to ensure that female and male students do not see each other in their daily lessons.

On the other hand, the content of the lectures is completely different for male and female students.

Mathematics is taught mainly in mathematics and physics and law for male students. In general, the purpose of teaching male students is to train new masters. Female students, on the other hand, are taught grammar with a strong focus on housekeeping, cooking, and nursing.

It's not that the content of the teaching of female students is bad, in fact, the school in Newsar has put a lot of effort into increasing the number of parents sending their daughters to school. But in Dussand's view, such "concessions" did not satisfy him.

In terms of teaching content, there is a huge difference between men and women, and at the same time, ...... Neither man nor woman has the right to choose. From this point on, Dussander is unlikely to be satisfied.

It was hard for him to imagine that after Polina used her own experience to prove that "women are no worse than men in learning physics and mechanics", there would be people who thought that women were far inferior to men in rational thinking.

"If someone objects to their daughter's admission to school, or to them studying the subjects they want to study...... Escobar suggested to Dussand, "I propose to divide such parents by the fine." โ€

"Only a fine would show that we have some impure intentions, plus a penalty of short-term detention." "At the same time, it is important to distinguish between families who are in real trouble, and if they are in real trouble, then they need to find a way to help them, rather than simply and brutally punish them." โ€

This is easy to say, but it is difficult to implement. To put it bluntly, it's because the executors lack enough empathy most of the time.

"We have to implement the matter of forming a party as soon as possible." At the end of the regular meeting, Dussander summoned the core members of the current Newsar control team and announced his decision to them, "I am here to invite you to join the People's Party that I am about to form. โ€

Forming a party is actually a matter of ...... in the upper echelons of the empire There is no precedent for political action. Before the House of Commons took over legislative power, and in the days when the Privy Council still controlled the supreme legislative power in every colony, forming a party was not a very serious matter.

In fact, the first political parties of the empire were short-lived parties at the top, with the personal will and political goals of the party leader as the core, and the vassals of the party leader as the main composition.

More often than not, such "political parties" do not have a clear political program or purpose at all. They don't even know who will be "comrades" of their own party. The entire political party is fundamentally a "puppet organization" serving the party leader.

Such a "loose" organization, of course, Dussart does not look down on. The political party he wants to establish should be a political party that can attract a large number of people and do not hesitate to shed their blood for a common goal, and has strong action and majestic vitality.

Truth be told, Dussaint was really unsure at first that his "Dussandism" would attract enough people. Materialist communism, of course, has a very remarkable vitality and the idea of going first. But the situation in the Empire is very different from the world of the previous life - at least in the previous life, Dusson was very sure that there was no such thing as a magical mineral called the "Yin Puxi Dragon Mine" in this world.

Concrete problems are analyzed in detail, and this is the living soul of materialism. Blindly applying rigid things without looking at the reality is wishful thinking that has made the grave mistake of rigidism and dogmatism. Dussart was convinced that materialism in the empire was a problem, but the premise was that materialism had to be adapted to the realities of the empire.

In the empire, the power of capitalism was very weak. In fact, the empire has not yet completed a complete capitalist revolution. Not to mention the prevalence of capitalism, there is not even an attempt to "seize control of the government in order to guarantee the profits of the capitalists".

But empires are not without capitalist forces. It's just that the capitalist power of the empire itself is somewhat ...... The ingredients are not pure.

If we analyze the income gains from enterprises, the biggest capitalists in the empire are actually the royal family.

In the Empire, the aristocracy had a resource advantage that ordinary people could hardly match. They are the most educated group in the entire empire, and they are also the group with the most capital in the empire. As a nobleman among the nobility, the royal family owns a large number of enterprises, and the royal family specializes in almost all business branches of the empire. And the scale of the assets owned by His Majesty the Emperor and other high-ranking nobles is also extremely staggering.

According to estimates given by the Olin Development Bank, the annual income provided by the royalty-owned companies to the royal family was almost equal to that of the twenty-six most developed colonies. If the equity of the royal company is converted at 60% of the market value, this value is basically equal to the total tax revenue of the entire empire for more than 20 years.

When the biggest capitalist in a country is the supreme ruler of the country, the capitalist revolution is very meaningless. What's more, the rest of the capitalists are still the ruling class?

Therefore, Dussaint decided that a revolution in the empire was not only necessary, but also had a sufficient "market".

Case...... Then form a party.

In the conference room, Dussander took out his long-prepared manifesto for the founding of the party.

"A ghost, a specter of communism, is wandering through the universe......"