Chapter 383: , Economic Foundation and Superstructure (3)

"What reactionary ruler? We are obviously the most enlightened rulers." Lucien said.
"Then we must be better at using these two tools." Joseph replied.
"Joseph, ignore this idiot, let's continue the topic just now." Napoleon said.
"Of these two methods, force suppression must be used cautiously. If it is to be used, it must be swift and violent. It will suddenly become choked to death in the bud. What is the bud of the chaos that we need most attention to? My brothers, The most dangerous sprout is that organizations begin to appear at the bottom. If someone tries to organize the people at the bottom, those without pants, we need to take immediate measures to destroy their organization. We can tolerate unorganized riots, but we must Organized, even peaceful demonstrations cannot be tolerated. Because the organization itself means real power." At this point, Joseph remembered the successful experience of a certain lighthouse country in later generations.
For a certain period of time, the Beacon State was actually just a "beacon of freedom", not a beacon of "democracy". At that time, the banner of democracy was still in the hands of her most dangerous enemy, the polar bear. At that time, it was not the beacon country that liked the promotion of democracy the world over, but the honest and reliable Teddy Bear.
At that time, a group of black people in the Lighthouse Nation, led by a black priest, began to attack the Beacon Nation’s system, asking the Lighthouse Nation for democracy. He also brought hundreds of thousands of blacks and low-level whites to the Lincoln Memorial for peaceful demonstrations.
Said it is a peaceful demonstration, it is indeed a peaceful demonstration. The demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of people did not even throw away a piece of paper--how dangerous is this to organize? Those who beat, smash, and rob do not know where the danger is. Moreover, the black pastor gave a speech at the meeting. Although the set of "non-violence and non-cooperation" put forward in this speech was much more kind than "armed seizure of power", it was also a rebellion. The guiding theory of it. With theory and organization, if we continue to develop, what's the deal? Therefore, the Beacon Country decisively adopted decapitation measures and killed the black priest in one shot.
After the black priests, what is the "Black Panther Party"—not the black panthers who let the common people live a primitive life and pretend to be superheroes—they believe that changing the world must be done through long-term organization and mobilization of the people. Try to create revolutionary socialism from mass organizations and community program planning, provide free breakfast for poor children in black communities, and give political education to the community people, hoping to change the people’s minds bit by bit and empower them-see ? They actually want to get organized!
How to deal with them? Of course it was the old trick, just beheaded. Soon, the leaders of the Black Panther Party were either shot to death or thrown into prison. Then, there are protests, riots, and riots, but unorganized and undisciplined riots, how threatening is it?
"Once we find that they have the meaning of being organized, just like the textile workers' federation in the UK, especially the kind that is organized and thoughtful, we must immediately take measures to dismantle them. Including direct resolution. Of course, do so. Sometimes the incidental cost is relatively high, so it is better to use deception as a means of deception. Well, Napoleon, how can a piece of land be so long that no matter how you plant it?" Joseph suddenly asked again .
"Ah, it's very easy." Napoleon said, leaning against the soft seat back. "Just let the ground grow with weeds."
"Very right," Joseph said, and glanced at Lucien.
"I... this question, give me a little more time, maybe I can answer it too." Lucian thought rather vainly.
"So what is weed? Of course it looks like an organization of workers, but it is actually an organization of our organization." Joseph said, "What are the characteristics of the workers in our factory? Workers can be divided into two categories, one is ordinary workers with very high mobility, and the other is relatively stable skilled workers. The situation of these two types of workers is also very different.
First of all, the wages of ordinary workers are quite low, far inferior to skilled workers or even to farmers. Our skilled workers, even the lowest skilled workers, are paid more than five times that of ordinary workers. As for the most high-end skilled workers, their income is more than ten times or even dozens of times that of ordinary workers.
One consequence of this is that although skilled workers and ordinary workers are called workers, their lifestyles are completely different. For skilled workers, their lives are already pretty decent. Ordinary workers can only say that they live on the line of food and clothing. But we have prepared a relief valve for them, and that is North America. One of their goals in life is to earn enough money to buy a ferry ticket and then go to North America.
And in terms of ethnic composition, they are also clearly different from skilled workers. More than half of the ordinary workers in our factory are foreigners with green cards. In other words, it is ‘preparing the French’. "
When talking about "preparing the French", Joseph couldn't help showing a triumphant smile.
The so-called "preparatory French" can only become French citizens when they arrive in Louisiana. The green card in their hands is the proof that they passed the "Basic French Test" and the "Oath of Allegiance to France". Only with such a document can you buy land at a low price when you arrive in Louisiana, and get loan support with low interest rates. But if they are involved in a crime or something while in mainland France, they will be disqualified and deported. So these "preparatory Frenchmen" with green cards are generally very honest and don't dare to cause trouble. They will not stay in France for long anyway.
"These'preparatory Frenchmen' are very mobile. They haven't stayed here for long anyway. It would be difficult to establish an organization. Add language issues, legal issues, and the guys in their hometown. The problem of squeezing-with them as a foil, we are not particularly intolerable of their squeezing.
As for skilled workers, their situation is different. They are relatively stable. It can even be said that as long as there is nothing wrong with our factory, they may be able to work in the factory for a lifetime. Coupled with a good income, the lifestyle is also different from ordinary workers. Their lifestyle makes them emotionally closer to the upper level rather than the lower level. Their lives are pretty good. Even if they realize that we are plundering them, they have to consider that once they fight, what they have now may be wiped out. They will complain and talk strange things. When we bully them, they will shout ‘lighter, it hurts’, but they won’t really resist. Because they are afraid of losing everything they still barely possess. Therefore, they are also the easiest to be bought and controlled.
They have been in the factory for a long time and have little mobility. Based on them, we have established a union first. These unions seem to be used to safeguard the interests of workers, but in essence, they are safeguarding our interests. But not all people can see this.
Now that this land is full of our weeds, it is too difficult for those who want to grow the fruits of the revolution here, isn't it? They need to work harder if they want to grow crops that can bear the fruits of the revolution. At least they need to get rid of these weeds first. But those skilled workers — or, we should call them noble workers — will think that our union is protecting them, and then they will be separated from ordinary workers, they will protect these weeds, and then the workers’ The inside will become a ball. You say this is great. "
"This is part of the deception of public opinion." Napoleon nodded and said, "It is indeed very enlightening. This is also part of the deception, right?"
"Of course it is. In addition to this, we should also deceive ideologically." Joseph went on, "A revolutionary organization can be organized, an important factor is that they have the guidance of revolutionary ideas.
To be honest, before the Great Revolution, the living conditions of the French people were not bad compared to other neighboring countries. Whether it is Italians, Spanish, highlanders and lowlanders, or even Austrian Prussians, their lives are not better than the French, and most of them are even worse than the French. Why can't it stand in the first place and want to rise up in revolution? It is the French who rise up to rebel, not the people of these countries? Lucien, answer this question. "
"Ah, I know that, because they don't have Voltaire and Rousseau." Lucien replied immediately.
"This statement is still correct." Joseph nodded, "Because of the emergence of Enlightenment in France, Voltaire and Rousseau appeared-speaking of them, they were rivals in their lives. After the revolution, they were caught together. Sent in the Pantheon, still so close, if you know it if you die, I'm afraid you are arguing every day.
It is with these ideas that since then, there have been various clubs organized around these ideas, including the Jacobin Club. Without these ideas, it would not have been France that was the first to revolutionize. So, Lucien, do you know what your work includes? "
"I think it should be something more metaphysical than the'our union' mentioned by Napoleon earlier. Well,'our union' is an organizational weed. As for me, I am responsible for providing more advanced things— -Mental weeds."
"No, no, it's not like this." Napoleon said, shaking his fingers, "it's not like this."
"What's that like?" Lucien was a little unhappy.
"What you want to plant is not weeds, but all kinds of poisonous weeds!" Napoleon replied.
Lucien habitually wanted to refute it, but after thinking about it, it seemed that Napoleon really made a little sense, so he shut up.
"We want to promote those theories that can benefit our rule. For example, we want to emphasize freedom and emphasize that economic freedom is the foundation of all freedom. And when we have such an advantage, any freedom is right. We are unilaterally favorable.
Secondly, we must promote the "free lifestyle" and make the workers and nobles yearn for such a lifestyle. This way of life should allow the noble workers—well, we can give them a name, just call them the middle class—make them feel like they work hard, they can touch it with a jump, or they can let them Children can touch it. Let them be obsessed with such a ‘free lifestyle’. Then they will become our staunch supporters, even if we are actually exploiting them.
We also have to promote all kinds of entertainment. Provide a variety of entertainment that can consume people's energy. In many cases, false entertainment can drain people's energy, let them indulge in illusions, immersed in false happiness, and will not cause any trouble.
Well, we can tailor something like this for them.
The first is venting entertainment, opening up the industry, lively election campaigns, endless war of words, and the abuse of various drugs. Secondly, there is another kind of satisfying entertainment, reporting boring things, such as cute animals, celebrity scandals, etc., plus various festivals and various commodity discounts ~EbookFREE.me~ and popular entertainment, such as various Theater, various games. Let them consume too much energy in this process, and don't think about problems that shouldn't be.
In addition, the most prone to class consciousness is those ordinary workers. We must strengthen their foreign attributes. Once they do something that does not conform to our meaning, we will direct the contradiction to ethnic contradiction. It is said that those foreigners have damaged our workers. "
Disguising class contradictions as ethnic contradictions, or even racial contradictions, is also a common method for later generations. The lighthouse nation of later generations is best at such a set. At this time, France also naturally has the conditions to implement this set. The existence of a large number of self-cultivating farmers is equivalent to the red necks of the lighthouse nation in later generations. And those Germans are just equivalent to those Latins of the Beacon Country in later generations. Therefore, Joseph felt that although such a trick is not available for the time being, it is good to prepare in advance.
"In addition, there are economic theories. We must hurry up and make the people believe that we, capitalists, and them are not in an employment relationship, but a cooperative relationship. We must leave a certain upward channel for the bottom level. Although it does not require much, There must be, and we must promote such examples as much as possible, encourage other people to learn from these lucky ones, and let them use all their strengths in these aspects, and use them to compete with each other for these channels..."