Chapter 121: The Evil Tom the Great
September 1, 1868
Just when Elder Yang was carrying out armament reforms and was preparing to rely on the demographic advantage of the 20 million people under his rule to carry out the armed abolition of Emperor Tom,
Tom did a little trick, Tom invited all the American human rights fighters, and invited them to come to Houston around September 1868.
Tom was going to have some discussions with them about the human rights liberation movement in the United States and around the world.
That's right, as a feudal emperor, Tom's first major event after ascending the throne was not to hold a celebration to invite guests, but to invite human rights fighters from all walks of life in the United States.
Invite these human rights fighters who are theoretically incompatible with Tom, the feudal lord.
In the name of inviting them, they are still invited to discuss the human rights liberation movement.
Tom's invitation list is full of human rights fighters:
From the top executives of the American Association for Equal Rights, which shone in the Civil War,
Down to the president of the National Staff League of America, which was only established a short time before last, Silvis,
Even the women's rights fighters who helped Tom recruit employees and sell goods not long ago received Tom's invitation.
The question is, will America, who have dedicated their lives to the equality of human rights, accept Tom's invitation?
Let's start with the American Association for Equal Rights,
During the Civil War, the association vigorously promoted the miserable, food-and-butter, food, shelter, marriage, and unfree slave life of the Southern blacks, and also promoted the beautiful area under the rule of Younger, where all men were created equal.
In the Civil War, this association was the main propagandist and microphone of Young.
But not long ago, there was a huge internal disagreement in this association.
The reason for this is the "Amendment to Article 15 of the Constitution of the United States of America" issued by the old Yankee administration of the United States of America not long ago.
In this amendment, there are only two short sentences:
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The right to vote of citizens of the United States shall not be denied or restricted by the United States or any State on account of race, color, or forced servitude.
The second sentence is: er.
The National Assembly shall have the power to implement this article by appropriate legislation.
This amendment not only gave a real legal guarantee to the "Emancipation Proclamation" signed by President Lincoln, but also completely intensified the internal contradictions of the American Association for Equal Rights.
You know, there are many fighters in the American Association for Equal Rights who joined the women's liberation movement, and they strongly supported Yankee Lao in the Civil War because the old Yankee administration promised to give women equal rights with men after the Civil War.
Tom had been in frequent correspondence and business correspondence with the American Equal Rights Association's women's rights activists.
Tom knew that there was already a lot of buzz within the American Association for Equal Rights over the amendment.
The crux of the dispute is whether to start a head-on conflict with the old Yankee government.
Radical human rights fighters, led by Elizabeth Yoon Kady Stanton and Susan Brownell Anthony, demanded that the American Association for Equal Rights negotiate head-on with the old Yankee administration, and even used *** and called on female employees to illegally gather and stop work to protest against the United States of America's Title 15 Amendment, which only empowers blacks and not women.
The soft-liner human rights fighters, led by Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe, felt that black equality was already very good, so why should they continue to protest against the old Yankee government in such a hurry and so fiercely, and even use frontal conflict to seek women's rights?
As a result, both sides are seeking social forces to support their views.
Therefore, Tom's invitation will not be rejected by these people.
After all, Tom is now a large factory owner with millions of employees, in addition to the title of emperor that is not recognized by the federal government of America and the state government of Texas.
Both sides of the infighting need the world's largest factory area
- Support from the owner of the Smith Factory Campus.
Human rights fighters are a bunch of canaries in a cage, and they regard the power struggle between men and women as more important than the class power struggle.
In Tom's eyes, these people could not have succeeded,
Tom is well aware of a truth: without resolving class contradictions, no human rights contradiction can be resolved at its root.
These people are going in the wrong direction, how can they succeed?
But although they are headless flies scurrying around, they are also big flies that are extremely thick, and for Tom, they are big flies that are very useful.
So will Silves, the president of the National Workers' Union of America, who is roughly in the right direction of struggle, accept Tom's invitation?
Silves would have agreed.
The sixties of the nineteenth century, an era when the human rights movement was still in confusion,
Not to mention Silves, even Mr. Ma has not thoroughly perfected his ideological blade in this era.
And even if Mr. Ma's ideological blade is completely perfected, it will take a lot of practice to accumulate experience to truly realize these theories.
The theory on paper is too difficult to realize, and even if Tom travels back in time, there is no sign or possibility of realizing it.
The imperfection of theory and the lack of practical experience have led to this era being chaotic and crazy.
You must know that even in 1917, when the world's first Marsh state was founded, its establishment was strongly supported by the bourgeoisie of Tsarist Russia.
The future bourgeoisie of Tsarist Russia could support the Ma class in order to fight against the feudal system.
So why can't the Ma class, which is now more immature in ideology and theory and more lacking in practical experience, help Tom, the American emperor, fight against Yang Jilao?
After all, for Silves, the factory area in the old Yankee area is a "battlefield" that he is familiar with.
It was the area where he grew up, and Silves knew what kind of oppressive area his hometown was.
Texas was an agricultural state a few years ago, and its industry had only developed for less than two years, so he didn't know anything about the factory area here.
For Silves, his knowledge of the Texas region comes entirely from his former student, President Carl, who is now president of the Texas Staff Federation.
President Carl is Tom's loyal "partner", and even the water cup in President Carl's house was purchased with Tom's funding, how do you say that President Carl described the Smith factory area in Texas in front of Silves?
This time, Tom invited President Silves not to write directly to the other party, but asked President Carl, president of the Texas Staff Federation, to invite Silves.
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