diskusbooks Chapter 197 The Two Legs of Revolution
Chapter 197 The Two Legs of Revolution
"The problem now is that we cannot stay in Amerlane for the next thirty years, even though we have built an advanced system. It is a representative democracy, but at the end of the year it is a capitalist country."
If we want to win a future for the workers and peasants, we need a base, and we may even need to try to establish a national-level commune first.
Everyone agreed that a revolution would inevitably sweep across Amelia, but when and where was the question. The time was not yet ripe; they needed to stabilize and build up the revolution.
In any case, the birth of Amelia was inherently imperfect and full of compromises. When establishing the republican system, Alice made compromises with all parties, including the nobility.
Some of the landed aristocracy opposed Alice, while others joined the ranks of the capitalist aristocracy. Alice used various means to divide the old aristocratic class, but she did not completely eliminate them.
This was done in light of the current situation. The crackdown on crime in the south has had a detrimental effect on the recovery of social production. The overspending on security has diverted funds that should have been invested in industry and infrastructure, which is not worthwhile for today's free market economy.
"Based on our current discussion, we can conclude that the future mass revolution will take two legs: domestic and foreign."
"One of our legs is based in overseas bases. A significant portion of the voices within our organization come from highly educated intellectuals who are passionately pursuing revolution. However, we cannot allow them to go underground. We should let them do what they do best—research."
"It is clear that if we are to carry out an open revolution in the future, neither the authorities nor foreign countries will grant us official status, nor will we be able to obtain the necessary facilities to train our armed forces. This will be true no matter which country we are to carry out the revolution in."
Raffarin Lau recalled the history she had seen in the United Nations Museum of History, and she knew that everything would be different at Emelansi IV.
He was intimately familiar with the legacy left by the previous humans, and even in those devastated, radiation-ridden city roundabouts, there were still usable plots of land.
Some automated, unmanned industrial complexes managed to escape the relentless bombardment by the alien fleet. These scattered yet interconnected automated facilities were able to maintain themselves over the long years by relying on a portion of the planet's core computing power. At least before she fell into slumber, many of these automated facilities were still in operation.
Places deemed uninhabitable by mainstream countries are their main bases abroad.
The revolution would not be confined to Amelansi; Raffarin Loe never intended for it to remain in Amelansi or any single country.
Only by using all the resources of a planet, only by uniting an entire world, can the enormous costs of venturing into deep space be sustained.
"This part is my responsibility. I'll be in charge of bringing our comrades to the base area, while the part back home..."
"The domestic part will be handled by some of our comrades. If a great revolution comes, they will mobilize their long-established connections to cooperate from within and without."
This part involves some of the members of the Visionaries Alliance. These members have a fairly stable life in Amelancy. Their lives are ordinary but can continue. Alice can't think of any possibility that would make them abandon everything here and cross the ocean.
The best course of action is to let them settle here. After all, the Federal Republic of America is a modern country, and this will also help the future revolution.
After reaching a consensus, everyone dispersed, but Alice, who founded the organization, would not show up because of the need.
She sat there in the small room, taking deep breaths, when Raffarin Lo brought her two cups of tea. She saw the weariness in her eyes.
“You’re tired, Delalaye, um…”
Raffarin looked at Alice, whose gaze, a mixture of weariness, self-doubt, and fervent longing, fell upon the spirited face beneath her pale hair.
"We're wondering, is it really necessary to do this? We mean... sometimes we doubt whether it's even necessary, and whether maintaining this situation and letting it continue might..."
Alice looked at Raffarin Low, half-jokingly and half-doubting, and uttered those words. She glanced at the documents in her hand and suddenly wondered if she should continue to maintain the country and continue to rule it. With her own skills, she could still become the strongest country on this land and soar into the sky.
"That's right, you're absolutely right. Just by relying on this modernized country, it can certainly carry out modernization and industrialization, and of course it can also carry out the Second Industrial Revolution, the Electrical Revolution, the Information Revolution, and the Automation Revolution. It's only a matter of time."
"But Earth has proven that it took more than three hundred years from the completion of the first industrial revolution to the completion of the space revolution, with the first manned spacecraft using a hyperspace engine to fly out of the solar system."
"For more than three hundred years, humanity has nearly destroyed the Earth several times. During these three hundred years, the political power of human society has changed hands constantly until the social revolution was finally completed, and only then did we officially embark on the journey to the stars."
Raffarin Low sighed, somewhat dejected, but she glanced at Alice: "Perhaps the formidable enemy has truly vanished, perhaps they are still here, perhaps we still have time, perhaps we don't."
"All of this depends on you, Alice Delalaye. You are the combination of the old and the new humans. You will lead this era from now on."
Raffarin Lo lowered his head.
In Alice's eyes, whether it is industrialization or modernization, there is only one purpose: to transform the world she lives in into the one she once knew.
That's why she led the army to provide disaster relief, that's why she did everything she could to promote industrialization, that's why she rejected the empire and the throne, and that's why she established a republican system.
She did not want to see people groveling before the powerful and wealthy, nor did she want to see people becoming ignorant and uneducated, nor did she want to see people going hungry or poorly clothed. She did not want to see a nation-state bowing down to the enemy's iron hooves. These were all her reasons for opposing the old world.
She didn't subscribe to the doctrine of the crossed sickle and hammer almost religiously; she simply knew and firmly believed that people might be better off under such a doctrine.
This was just her simple wish. She wasn't born to liberate or lead anyone; she simply wanted to do something for everyone and everything within her sight.
"I choose revolution."