Song Dynasty: Yuan Dynasty, you didn't expect this, did you? I'm still alive.

Chapter 270 Tolo

Thanks to Roosevelt's policy of non-resistance, the Mexican Party in America gained a valuable respite.

At this point, a heated debate erupted within the Mexican party between two opposing lines.

One was Lin Daren, known for his benevolence. He advocated building a society without exploiting classes and based on socialist principles through domestic efforts. He believed that as long as the world saw the superiority of socialism, all of humanity would be liberated naturally.

Both were Trotsky. He firmly opposed Lin Daren's theory of "building socialism in one country," believing that continuous revolution should be carried out and that the world's proletariat should fight together.

Simply put, Lin Daren advocates cultivating internal strength, while Tolo advocates continuous attack.

But at this time, Lin Daren had more supporters.

The Eastern Song Dynasty was simply too powerful—it not only occupied the most fertile lands of Southeast Asia and the Central Plains, but also controlled colonies in Africa, Europe, and India. Its financial strength and resources were far beyond what the newly formed Mexican faction could contend with.

Although the Mexican army was fearless and valiant, they would eventually all perish one day.

What the Eastern Song Dynasty had in abundance was people.

Recent battles have proven this point.

The Song army recruited a large number of Indian soldiers and adopted the simplest and most brutal human wave tactics—even exchanging ten Indians for one Mexican soldier was within acceptable limits.

The Eastern Song Dynasty would never surrender until India had bled to its last drop.

Now, offense and defense have become different.

Those who were not afraid of death became Song soldiers.

The Mexican party urgently needs to recuperate and rebuild.

Faced with such voices within the party, Trotsky was furious and refuted the theory of "building socialism in one country" in the strongest terms.

He pointed out that the most fundamental and serious consequence of Lin Daren's approach was that isolated development inevitably led to bureaucracy.

Tolo argues that while the Mexican Party was the first to establish a proletarian dictatorship in politics, it was extremely backward in economics and culture.

The Americas were merely the weakest link in the Eastern Song Dynasty's chain of events.

In order to survive in isolation and backwardness and to build socialism, the Mexican government faced an unavoidable problem: how to accumulate the initial capital required for industrialization.

Having a few heavy industrial factories in Chicago does not equate to industrialization.

Large areas of rural America remained under slavery.

Unlike the Eastern Song Dynasty, which accumulated wealth through centuries of plundering colonies, the isolated Mo Party had no choice but to seek resources from within and from the peasantry.

This will inevitably lead to a series of high-pressure policies—

First, there was over-industrialization. The state used planned means and the "scissors difference" to exchange high prices for industrial products for low prices for agricultural products, thereby extracting funds for industrialization from farmers.

Second, agricultural collectivization. In order to control food and resources more effectively, it was necessary to organize scattered individual farmers, which eventually evolved into mandatory collective farms.

Tolo argues that the aforementioned pressure to isolate and the high intensity of coercive policies inevitably give rise to and strengthen a massive bureaucratic machine, leading to a qualitative change in it.

Building socialism in an isolated and backward country requires extremely precise allocation and management of all resources.

This objectively requires a large and powerful administrative team (bureaucrats) who control the allocation of all resources, including materials, food, and job opportunities.

Prolonged isolation and economic pressure inevitably lead to a shortage of resources (shortage economy).

Under these conditions, the channel for obtaining scarce resources is no longer the market, but power.

Bureaucrats use their power of allocation to obtain privileges such as supplies, housing, and medical care for themselves and their cronies, which constitutes corruption in their personal lives.

In order to implement unpopular coercive policies (such as collectivization), the bureaucratic class will inevitably suppress intra-party democracy and the supervision of the working masses, replacing democratic discussion with administrative orders.

They are no longer the "servants" of the people, but the "masters" who issue orders.

Trotsky asserted that by this time a new bureaucratic class with its own special interests had been formed.

Although they nominally did not own the means of production—if one were to read only one historical novel in their lifetime, it would probably be "The Great Song and the Great Yuan: You Didn't Expect Me, I'm Still Alive"—their actual control over the production process and their right to distribute surplus products endowed them with the characteristics of a "class."

The corruption of the vanguard will inevitably lead to the complete degeneration of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

It has transformed from workers' democracy to a bureaucratic appointment system.

Currently, workers elect, supervise, and remove officials from the bottom up. In the future, officials will be appointed by their superiors, accountable only to their superiors, and disregard the interests of the masses.

The debate has shifted from intra-party debate to thought control. Currently, important policies are freely discussed throughout the party; in the future, any criticism of these policies will be considered "anti-party" or "counter-revolutionary."

The system has shifted from mass oversight to political police. Currently, power is checked through institutions such as the Workers' and Peasants' Inspection Office; in the future, it will rely on the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (a secret service agency) to suppress dissent.

Internationalism has transformed into nationalism. Now, the ultimate goal is to liberate the entire world, and the so-called "building socialism in one country" in the future is actually nothing more than maintaining the stability of the bureaucratic state.

In Tolo's view, Lin Daren's system is precisely the most tragic proof of his theoretical system—a "workers' state heading towards bureaucracy," a deformed product that runs counter to Marxist ideals.

Tolo's theoretical level is clearly superior to Lin Daren's.

These remarks startled many people.

Even Liezi, after careful consideration, decided to support Tolo.

However, the Mexican army's predicament would not change simply because of the shift in its course—the Mexican army at this time did not have the conditions to continue its outward revolution.

However, Liezi's abilities are among the best in the world today.

He can make money flow backwards.

Countless scholars in the Eastern Song Dynasty misappropriated government funds to support Liezi's proletarian revolution.

Even within the Gewu Academy and Tsinghua Academy, there were Mexican spies who transmitted technological secrets to the Mexican party.

Feng Zhan, the former Left Chancellor, was second only to the emperor and held immense power. Even someone like him was proficient in calligraphy—this demonstrates the power of idealism.

The scholar-officials of the Eastern Song Dynasty, in particular, were naturally imbued with the gene of idealism. The moment they accepted Marxism, they could never forget the utopian society it envisioned.

With the help of these pro-Mexico elements, the American Mexican Party was able to maintain its offensive against the Song army while simultaneously building socialism in the rear.

Of course, with the implementation of Luo Fu's new policies, many people began to change their stance—it seemed that Marxism was not the only way to save the Song Dynasty.

The support for the Tongmo faction in the Eastern Song Dynasty was gradually decreasing.

Three years later, an event dealt a fatal blow to the Mexican Party—

During a speech to workers, Liezi was assassinated by royalist assassins.

Although not fatal, the bullet struck Liezi's lung, severely damaging his vital energy.

A year later, Liezi passed away.

Lin Daren's political skills are clearly superior to Tolo's.

Under the pressure of reality, most people within the party began to side with Lin Daren.

The major internal party debate ended in Lin Daren's victory, and Trotsky was gradually marginalized and eventually expelled.

His theory of "continuous revolution" is considered a defeatist theory of "liquidationism" and "disbelief in the power of the people"; in its later development, his attitude toward the peasant class has also been criticized by some leftists as a manifestation of "petty-bourgeois ideology".

The Mo army halted its advance.

Lin Daren reiterated that the Mo Party firmly supported the government's position, which eased relations with the Eastern Song Dynasty and marked the beginning of the socialist construction period.

Furthermore, the early implementation of five-year plans enabled the provisional government to rapidly complete industrialization, which to some extent proved the superiority of the socialist system and the correctness of Lin Daren's line.

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Nanjing.

Wenhua Pavilion.

Upon learning of Liezi's death, Tuoluo's expulsion, and Lin Daren's rise to power, Luo Fu sighed deeply.

"Marxism is dead from this day forward."

Upon hearing this, several of Luo Fu's trusted Grand Secretaries beside him couldn't help but start to have wild thoughts—

Luo Fu... could he also be a Mexican?