Chapter 156: The Source (Part II)
The employees who participated in the rally spent the New Year on the road, sleeping in the open and not even having dumplings to eat. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
But this is the most unforgettable and happiest year they have ever had.
It was the first time they had officially stepped on the stage called politics, and although it was only slightly visible like the people disguised as red flowers and green leaves on the stage scene, it announced that they were qualified to step on the stage.
Through this incident, they understand the power of organization, and only by uniting together can they form a force that people can face up, and with a legal employers' association, they are no longer scattered.
After this, they felt that they were a living person, a person who lived under the sunshine of a slight luxury for the miners, and that sunshine was themselves.
They can proudly go back and say to most of the children who are destined to become miners that they straightened their backs and fought for fewer deaths for themselves and for future generations. You can also face those family members who were once at a loss and tell them what the purpose of the shock and intimidation they have been subjected to these days.
For what? They can't tell what the future they want to fight for, but they know that they have won it now.
What does the future look like? How can we get rid of this abject poverty and misery once and for all?
They felt that the people from the Hirers' Association would tell them. Members of the Mexican Party, will tell them.
…………
Although the members of the Mexican Party were jubilant at the Central Party Headquarters in Mincheng, they did not have time to celebrate this victory.
It was the first time they really stepped onto the political stage to show their strength, and they succeeded.
Indeed, it is worth celebrating.
After this incident, the influence of the Moxican Party was further expanded, and it could be regarded as truly known to everyone in Mincheng, and even became a curse within some guilds - once a workshop owner in the guild expressed sympathy for the hired workers, he would be labeled an ink-colored element internally.
In just two days after this incident, the number of employees who wanted to join the Hirers' Association increased sixfold compared to the previous one, and some of the members of the Hirers' Association were eager to become full-fledged party members.
These things are debatable, and the people who join the employees' associations must be carefully vetted to prevent them from being sabotaged by those who have mixed in in the future.
In addition, it will take a lot of manpower and time to hire workers to bring back to the mining area safely, negotiate with the mine owners who did not go to Mincheng, and resume coal mining and transportation as soon as possible to restore Mincheng to its former state.
So even if it's a good thing to celebrate, there's no time to celebrate.
The Committee decided that all internal members must write a report on the petition, summarizing the shortcomings and shortcomings of the operation and the successful experience of the petition, for later use.
The pen of the public opinion propaganda department should also write something as soon as possible, and the Acura action will be spread to the rest of the places as soon as possible.
As a regret of the Yellow Paper Window Incident, this time the windows of all mining workers' associations will be replaced with large pieces of glass, which will be donated by Chen Jian as a celebration of victory.
All of these are glamorous and can make people happy and excited.
But in addition to this glamour, there is also a dangerous lurking.
The success of this incident has widened the differences that had accumulated before.
In view of the current situation and the level of productive forces, the Mexican Party was founded as an organization with a confused ideology and a perfect program, and now it is inevitable that ideological disputes will arise.
utopian, radical, bourgeois democrat, liberal, rioter, anarchist, reformist, handicraft cooperative...... All these will develop their own programs and ideas with the expansion of the big workshop and the petition after this petition.
The so-called program and concept are things that treat both the symptoms and the root cause.
In the beginning, many people can be united for a noble ideal, but as the ideal and reality are intertwined, this unity will gradually loosen.
When they are for the same purpose, they can be united, but there will definitely be differences in the future, and when the time comes, they may only be able to shake hands and smile faintly, saying that they will go their separate ways when they see each other on the battlefield.
Some of the people representing the small citizens and the small handicraft industry have already expressed their dissatisfaction with Chen Jian's vigorous opposition to the act of taking advantage of the opportunity to encourage the small handicraftsmen who have been exploited by the guilds and contractors to fight for profits, and think that Chen Jian has wasted a great opportunity - how do you know that it will fail if you have not tried?
Those who represented the reformists and bourgeois democrats were uneasy about the ideas of the internal radicals and utopians about the state ownership of land and collective ownership of workshops, and found it difficult to accept and considered this to be contrary to respect for ownership.
And the reformists and the bourgeois democrats and the liberals are also divided. Headache doctor head and foot pain treatment is not the solution, what will I do in the future? How can these situations be avoided? Is it representative? Or is it the participation of the whole people? Is it the centralization of power by the central government? Or is it the decentralization of the counties? Where are the boundaries of freedom? Where is the boundary of equality? Who balances? Who will oversee it?
In addition to these, those who support Chen Jian have expressed their opposition to the absolute egalitarianism and asceticism of some utopianism, but Chen Jian describes the future, and the utopians are based on reality and are difficult to convince.
Even within utopianism, there are serious divisions.
There are governments that hope to override the rights of all, thereby promoting some welfare laws and tax allocations; Others believe that they should no longer participate in political battles at this time, but focus on cooperatives and craft associations; Others believe that the Mexican Party should be the core to form some absolutely equal cooperatives, collective labor, and so on; Others believe that such petitioning activities can be carried out, but they must be carried out in moderation, and the main experience should be placed in the Institute of Practical Technology, and as long as efforts are made to develop the productive forces, all these problems will be solved......
These signs are maturing, and they are beginning to try to paint a picture of the future, hoping to find a perfect solution to all this injustice and ugliness.
Based on this situation, it was proposed that an enlarged meeting be held in Mincheng in July of this year, to which representatives of all grassroots organizations and allies and sympathizers in the capital and other cities should be invited.
Nominally, it was to celebrate the victory on the 29th of the lunar month.
In fact, many people hear the meaning.
Either that, these people work together to come up with a program that is acceptable to all, and that will continue to expand and exist as an organization.
Either that, or they can't negotiate a program that is acceptable to all, but there is consensus on some issues - then the Mexican party is split internally, and the rest of the coalition forms a loose coalition that does not govern each other but is negotiable on some issues.
Obviously, there is nothing possible with the first one, so there is only the second way.
As it was said back then, this is nothing more than a cram school, where theories ferment internally and produce differences, organizational forms grow externally and learn from each other, and after the events of December 24, we have learned the boundaries of compromise and struggle, and the rest is that each side has its own team, each taking its own path.
Insiders have realized how ridiculous their former "better for all" narrative is, and can only choose to make some of them better, depending on which side they are on.
Jian Chen just sighed at this proposal, and after thinking about it, he finally expressed his support, which is not a good thing, after all, everyone still has a common goal in many places.
These people come together on the basis of the most basic sympathy, morality, and the goodness of humanity in the vulgar sense.
The political program is either that of the bourgeoisie; Either it is the utopian faction of small handicrafts, which is dictated by reality.
After separation, the boundaries of each can be expanded, and more people who were on the periphery could not join under the common organization can be integrated.
After confirming this proposal, Chen Jian left Mincheng and returned to Nan'an.
He still has a lot of tasks to be arranged, because Nan'an is his base camp and the gathering place of the few mine owners who were the first to accept the petition, Chen Jian needs to go back to organize production as soon as possible to fulfill the original promise.
It is also necessary to settle the workers' associations there, to establish and improve the organization that has suddenly increased in numbers, to settle the hired workers after the canal has been built, and so on.
In addition to official business, there are a bunch of private matters.
The reshuffle of the canal and the coal industry united some mine owners to squeeze over the rest of the mine owners and extend their hands to the coal mining industry; the counterattack of the cotton textile industry and the destruction of the cotton textile guild in Mincheng; the development and improvement of new manual machines for the textile industry; the road leading to the oil seedling mining area; The establishment of simple oil refining workshops and so on.
All this must be done or laid in half a year, and once the enlarged meeting is completed in July, it must go to sea within a year, before the wave of unemployment in some cottage industries, so that the people here can see a wider horizon.
If Mincheng wants to become the birthplace of the bourgeois revolution, its qualifications are not enough.
It is not only the source of the bourgeois revolution, but also of democracy, freedom, equality, love, economics, joint-stock companies, trade unions, shipping and insurance, and so on.
The internal mind is already being prepared, new handicraft machines are being made, but the external environment is not enough.
The only way to do this was to sail to the unknowable place in the west, which was blocked by mountains and deserts, and to make use of the topography of the Mincheng Bay Peninsula to make Mincheng the center of foreign shipping, to increase the population and wealth, and to make the bourgeoisie more powerful.