Chapter 425 Communityism
Matt Horner's face was full of anxiety, which was an urgent and unexplainable thing. The expression surging inside his chest reminded Lehman of a lot of things. Looking at Matt's expression, Lehman knew that the series of seeds planted a few days ago finally began to sprout.
"There is also a room for humans to stay in. I'm going to see him in ten minutes," Lehman said, "and, I need at least an hour."
"Al's pursuit fleet may be behind our butts, so we are very nervous now. Are you sure you want to give each other an hour alone?" Knight asked in confusion.
"It's very sure, this hour must be worth it."
Lehman nodded with a smile, and the order was conveyed. Ten minutes later, Lehman had already met Matt Horner in a temporary transformed room suitable for humans on the Returning Homecoming.
Matthew D-Horner, Matt, the son of the Tyrado merchant, the rebellious elite driver of the Federal Army, and the elite of the son of Keha, saw Lehman, and put three books in front of Lehman. Lehman looked closely and found that in addition to the two books he had given Matt before, one red and one black, there was also a black book with the words [the-holy-bible] on it.
After reading these three books, Lehman slowly got on the chair and stretched out his hand to the chair behind Matt:
"Sit, sit down and say."
"You..." Matt looked at Lehman's slow look and knew that Lehman was holding him, but he just couldn't get angry. After all, he had too many questions to ask Lehman, so he had to sit opposite Lehman, stabilized his mind and planned to ask questions.
But he found that he didn't know where to ask. For a moment, he felt a mess in his head. In the end, the only question left was the meaningless phrases such as [I...], [I want to ask...], [that], etc. After trying a few times, Matt gave up with a red face, sitting there looking at Lehman with a playful face, and stopped talking.
"Sorry," Lehman looked at Matt's face and eyes, and knew that the control was over. He put away the playfulness and said to Matt seriously, "Let's put these three books first, help you sort out the depression in your chest and let you ask questions yourself, okay?"
Matt remained silent and nodded.
"You always want to resist, to fight against the Federation, the [evil Empire] (Note 1), but you have never had a clear goal. After reading these three books and reading what my brother did when aiding refugees, you feel that the goal seems clear, but it is not clear, and you can't explain it clearly. This unclearity blocks your chest and blocks your thinking, right?"
Matt nodded again, Lehman did say the point - as a child of a relatively successful businessman on vacation and business planet Terrado 9, he seemed to have always felt that he wanted to resist something. His father and many people attributed it to the overly comfortable life. In short, it was just that Matt, a kid [I feel sore in leisure], but Matt knew that things were not like that.
He felt that something was wrong with the community, society, planet, and even the world around him, but he couldn't explain it clearly, so for a moment, he could only think that this was a problem with the federal government that was levied heavily. For this reason, he read a lot of books and many works of Kopru thinkers, but still couldn't find the answer.
He seemed to have only got two words - resistance.
"But, you don't know what to resist and who to resist," Lehman slowly talked about Matt's confusion. "How to resist, you don't know, you don't even know whether it's right to join the son of Kha. You just know that Kha is standing on the hostile stance of the Federation, and you join. I bet, you didn't even think about what to do if Kha succeeds and resists successfully, you don't know."
"……………You are right, I don't know," Matt sighed bitterly when he heard this, "as if no one in the world knows it. Those philosophers and thinkers seem to be just talking about resistance, but they don't know the answers to the questions you mentioned, so I sometimes wonder if the thinkers who are detained in the highest level of the federal prison will have the answer..."
"Have you ever wondered why you wanted to resist?" Lehman asked.
"You won't be," Matt asked, "the federal politicians are already terrible, and they are entrusted with levies and people are living in poverty. Businessmen like my father can't breathe, let alone the people at the bottom..."
"You said too, it's not normal to not resist, so why doesn't anyone have the answers to those questions?"
"Tell me!"
"Someone told you that social injustice is that you should resist, but you don't tell you how to resist at all. You just say resist, become a hero, or even a martyr, or someone told you, as the black book says, work hard for [his country]," said Lehman pointed to the book [holy-bible], "But no one told you who should resist, what to resist, and how to resist, because all the thoughts you come into contact with are for a barbaric, losing your ideal system, and all the resistance you experience is part of the process of releasing pressure in this system."
"System? What system? Are you saying that Koplu, Tron's thinker is part of a system that controls us?" Matt keenly captured the key.
"Yes, some are unconscious, some are conscious, do you want to hear about this system?"
"…………explain."
"If you want to understand this system, you must first clarify a concept," Lehman leaned forward, stretched out his hand and dipped in the water in the water cup on the table, drew several concentric circles one by one on the table, "munity), and then subdivided downwards into small communities, planets, regions, cities, companies, families, military, a certain boat in the army, munity). Do you remember?"
"Community, easy to understand." Ma Te nodded, a concept he had read in another black book.
"This kind of community exists since the ancestors of human beings lived in groups in caves. Human beings gathered together and perform their own duties in order to survive and reproduce, right? Men go out to hunt, women take care of children and elderly people in caves, and are responsible for weaving grass skirts, right?"
"I know the primitive society." Ma Tetou, which he learned when he was studying history.
"Very good, men hunt, women knit clothes, let's say that, then, what are the elderly and children doing? Are they suitable for hunting or knit clothes?"
"Obviously not."
"So, men who hunt should fight more, and they should not only beat enough meat they eat, because the elderly and children should eat, and women who weave clothes should also eat; women cannot only knit their own clothes. Men should wear them when going out to hunt, and the elderly and children should wear them, right?"
"Of course." Ma Tetou, he was a little anxious. Why did he keep talking about these obvious knowledge? He didn't quite understand.
"We are always manufacturing, or producing, more things, or value than we need, which is something that begins to exist when human society ignites the first fire of civilization. We are always creating some residual value, right?"
"Residual value!!! I have read this!!!" Matt suddenly remembered the content in the black book and jumped up excitedly.
"And how these surplus values are distributed create different systems, one of which is the system you are in now," Lehman looked at Matt with a surprised face and smiled. "It's that simple. For example, your father, a businessman, does not produce food, so he needs a farmer like my parents to produce food to support him, and then let him transport other things my parents need - clothes, vehicles, agricultural robots... But who decides who should allocate to whom, this determines the characteristics of the social system."
"And these system characteristics determine thoughts and culture, not thoughts and culture determine the system. During the slave period, slave owners obtain surplus value and distribute surplus value, so it is called slave society. Think about it carefully, the slave society period, religious culture, etc. are all served to stabilize the system of slave society--the current suffering can be exchanged for happiness in the next life, or even for the next life, and the opportunity to face judgment after death. How about it?"
"So now, who is allocating these...surplus value..." Matt pondered.
"ceo, shareholders, boss," Lehman shrugged, his face full of dangerous smiles, "Or let's put it another way--how about the capital family, because they are a group of people who master the capital [capital] for production. For example, what about the big boss of Star Express? 150 billion credit points? Do you think, just say that, do you think the interstellar truck drivers who help Star Express deliver express, those who create surplus value, will use the surplus value they create to do what the big boss does? For example, spend 10 billion to divorce and find a little lover?"
“They might say…….”
"Fuck it," Lehman followed Matt's words, "For example, my adoptive parents, Slow's farmers, what do you think if they could freely distribute the fruits of their labor and the remaining corn they produced, and would they buy luxury cruise ships like the farm tycoons who bought corn?"
"Of course not!!!"
"Then if they can sit together, and workers, and distribute their labor results, like many fringe-worlds nowadays, when workers are in charge of their own country, a kind of thought, munity or ideology (-ism), you can call it..."
"munism!!!)" Matt shouted.
"Very good, so let's look at it from the other hand. What kind of politician-driven system is there in the core area of the Federation? What kind of system can make you not know what to resist--what kind of people control surplus value will be born? So what kind of people control surplus value in today's society?"
“Those rich people….”
"Yeah, it's got it, but it's not too right..."
"Those who hold the power..."
"What kind of right?"
"The person who distributes the right to surplus value!"
"So, why are they able to allocate surplus value?"
“Because they control the production capital!”
"Very good," Lehman applauded, "but as the Red Book said, we need to analyze specific issues in detail, and we cannot blindly doctrine. If we want to understand the system here and understand what you want to resist, we have to go back to the history of Koplu - the human history here is very special. When we came here, the social structure and class of the first human beings..."
"Exile?"
"Yes, yes, but among these exiled prisoners, there are also class, some are just criminals, but some are senior criminals, such as scientists. These people came to Kepru, and the ship crashed and they had no relatives. In order to survive, people without capital naturally depended on people with capital. After all, some criminals do not know how to produce..."
"In other words, the system in this star area was terrible from the beginning--a very small number of people mastered the vast majority of resources and obtained the vast majority of surplus value. The son of Kha, the organization you serve, and their leader, Akturas, is also a descendant of such a class, and is one of the group of people who support the system..."
"But...but, isn't it possible to be without such top-level people? I mean, farmers who farm do not know how to allocate reasonable. What if they want to distribute everything to their relatives instead of those who need it? What if they were cheated when they exchanged their surplus value for their needs? You, Akturas, is a member of the oppressor, why are you still allying with him? Wait..." Matt said, hugging his head in pain.
"I am in the alliance with the Akturas because what I need now is not the Great Revolution, but stability. Stability can save more people's lives. As for the other issues you mentioned, this involves the issue of social productivity and education--not focusing on the meaningless creation of those who have mastered surplus value, only paralyzing entertainment, educating producers, and improving productivity, one day, will be realized..."
"No exploitation, no oppression, self-liberation, unity, everyone does their best and takes what they need," said Matt pointing to a black book, and then to another black book, "Can it really be realized in the world this book calls it?"
"It will definitely be achieved, but this is a huge project. From purpose, task, and means, it is very complicated. But you must believe that this world belongs to the people who created this world after all. No matter how those who plunder surplus value use nonsense to confuse the people with [God of Heaven], [The Next Life] or [Blessings] such nonsense, the people will eventually smash the old world and then build a new world!!!"
"Communism!!!(orgmunism)" Matt stood up excitedly.
"Yes, the answer you are looking for, among those two books," Lehman grabbed the red and black books and placed them in front of Matt, and drew another black book aside. "I hope you can find the answer in the coming time. The current human world is facing the crisis of extinction. I need to solve this crisis. I hope that after the crisis is resolved, you will be ready and ready to lead a great revolution!"
"Revolution!!!" Matt trembled excitedly.
"Now, you know what you should do," Lehman grabbed Matt's hand and pointed to the projected starry sky. "To the middle of the people, only those who do not stand opposite the people can truly lead a revolution launched to eliminate the opposition between the dual class."
Hearing this sentence, Matt's trembling excitement suddenly stopped. After he murmured [to the people] a few times, he gradually calmed down, but the flames in his eyes became more and more hot, and he grabbed Lehman's hand steadily:
"I will go to the people, waiting for your good news, Lehman, waiting for you to come back..."
"Smash this old world and build a new world."
Lehman also grabbed Matt's hand and shook it.
Chapter completed!