Chapter 23 Critical Years
Subtitle of this chapter: Go left to right, fight to the death... Well, actually it will take two or three more times.
Yuan Yan finally officially embarked on the path of master.
In fact, he hasn't read "Socialism" yet. He has also long been famous for the author of this book, but he is not very familiar with it.
One of the most famous things about Mises was that he had a good disciple, the author of the must-read book "The Road to Slavery" for public intellectuals, and was also the winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Economics, Austrian-British economist, Friedrich-august-von-hayek.
This confirms the life experience and academic career of the master and apprentice that a person’s destiny depends on both personal struggle and historical progress.
As an economist and history enthusiast, Yuan Yanshu knew that 1920 was a very important year. Just a month ago, a key event that profoundly affected the historical process occurred in Europe, that is, the "miracle of the Vistula River."
History has its inevitability, such as the confrontation between the two major state groups of capitalism and socialism; but it also has its contingency, such as the "miracle of the Vistula River" delaying the real formation of the two major groups by thirty years. Because of the emergence of nuclear weapons, they were just a "Cold War" after all, and did not really fight.
In mid-August this year, the Soviet Red Army approached Warsaw, and most military experts around the world believed that Poland would definitely fail. If the Red Army broke through the Warsaw defense line, they would ignite the old Europe, which was covered with dry firewood. If this fire really burned, it would not be impossible for the entire Europe to be rapidly redundant.
As Churchill, who had not yet become a fat man, said: "Behind the retreating Polish front, the communist germ cells and tissues of each town emerged from hidden places, ready to welcome the birth of the New Soviet Republic."
Unemployed workers and World War I veterans have organized to replicate the October Revolution in Berlin; French people are marching to protest their governments' support for Poland's war, and the grand occasion of the Paris Commune may be reappeared; in London, the British Labor Party announced that British workers will never participate in the war with Poland as an ally, and this time, they should not expect the "European Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling Stumbling St
Old Europe looks like a pill with a red date, and New Rome is really good in comparison. Railway workers proposed a very mild "pin plan" and they asked to send their own representatives to participate in railway management; while members of the United Mining Union were a little more radical, and they voted to support the nationalization of mines across the United States last year; among North Dakota and nearby grain-producing states, a non-partisan coalition with 200,000 farmers, known as the "agricultural Soviet".
For the American superiors and proletariat, the most headache is the industrial-workers-of-the-world, known as the "root of all sins". How bad are these guys? They not only forced capitalists to implement an eight-hour working system, banned the use of child labor, and provided unemployment benefits... They are also connecting the world to seize control of global capital!
Whether it is the emperor, king, president, prime minister, prime minister... the ruling classes of all countries are trembling but at a loss.
At this critical moment, Polish commander Bisusky made a "clang" appearance. Under his command, Pingdu Town Lu Da/Bo/Bo finally reappeared at a critical moment and finally brought down Chilu Town. (Author's note: Why did Da/Bo/Bo jump so much before World War II? It made it almost impossible for Sud and Germany, who had joined hands to divide Poland, have to join hands. This is part of the reason.)
In 1812, Napoleon I was lit by the Moscow fire of Tsarist Russian general Kutuzov burned the great cause of unifying the whole of Europe. One hundred and eight years later, the "Red Napoleon" Tukhachevsky hated the city of Warsaw to let the international communist "forever (I dare not guarantee how far this forever is, I will not guarantee it." Losing the historical opportunity to liberate all mankind, and also giving the big capitalists all over the world a chance to breathe. Although they had to use pain to cut their flesh on themselves in the future, it was better than being taken away by a wave.
Now the capitalist powers have become weak chickens who need to be saved by big waves. In another nine years, compared with the depressed capitalist world, the Soviet Union, which was booming in the first five-year plan (1928-1932), fully demonstrated the superiority of socialism.
Although Yuan Yanshu, who had queued up in front of the US consulate for visa interviews, it was hard to imagine that in real history, the American people would queue up in front of the Soviet embassy to apply for immigration. Later, not only did the literary, artistic, cultural and academic circles, but also the Western governments were filled with a large number of leftists and red spies. The best example was the "Five Cambridge Heroes". These young men were all from British aristocratic families. They had a bright future and took the initiative to join kgb as communist spies.
That was the era of idealists who were so popular that they were idealistic.
This is because even though the socialist planned economy has many disadvantages and is not good, compared with the capitalist market economy, it is enough to have one advantage, that is, the government can actively create demand, and the key is as much courage as the demand can be.
Insufficient demand or oversupply is really just a trouble for capitalism. What is the headache for socialism is always shortage and shortage, so that the ticket economy later became synonymous with planned economy.
So the liberal economists who even the government did not want were not very popular in the following decades. They did not stand out again until more than half a century, especially after the oil crisis in 1973. They finally loosened Keynesianism, a mountain that was pressing on them, and eventually became the only winner of this academic dispute and the political struggle of various interest groups. Of course, this is the case in the mainstream (actually the West) economics community, and there are still quarrels in the non-mainstream (actually, it is a major country in the West).
Lao Mi happened to catch up with the front, and she couldn't even get a regular teaching position in the second half of her life; Xiao Ha happened to be behind, not to see that he dragged Churchill down after World War II, and even couldn't choose the Prime Minister (Note 1), and later she became the anti-centralist flag bearer.
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Chapter completed!