readytorunbook Chapter 312 What is Revolution?
Chapter 312 What is Revolution?
Lake Montana, with the best water quality in all of Columbia, is naturally home to many fishermen. Without the industrial pollution of Chicago, this circular body of water, comparable to the Great Lakes, is filled with fishing boats.
What is a revolution? Most people don't know, but starting two weeks ago, fishermen, a large but marginalized group in Montana, experienced some small changes.
The term "fishermen's commune" was unfamiliar to fishermen, but its organizational form was not. Although the newly established fishermen's commune did not immediately gain the support of all fishermen, it did make a good start for the revolution.
The fishermen's commune initially attracted not ordinary fishermen, but local "small fishermen" who were poor and had neither boats nor efficient fishing equipment, nor any aquaculture farms that were already in use.
What the commune needed to do was very simple: organize these individual fishermen, send technicians, purchase fishing equipment in a unified manner, and turn individual fishermen into fishing workers.
The commune was not only a production unit but also an organizational unit. In a social organization based on the commune, fishermen could elect management by voting. This management was not a superior but an equal organizer of life, sharing the means of production and policies with the workers.
Each month, the commune would record the needs and ideas of its members, and then a representative, elected by vote, would attend the People's Assembly to submit these needs and ideas.
At first, the boat owners were indifferent and had no interest in the new "commune." To put it bluntly, they were just a bunch of lake laborers. How could these ragged guys with canoes and tattered fishing nets compare to their motorized fishing boats and composite material fishing nets? Not to mention the aquaculture farms.
But as they watched, they saw that, under the organization of the commune and with the support of the government, those lake fishermen had their own fishing boats. The boats were not big, but the people who drove them and those standing on them were all smiling so happily.
On the lake where the water meets the sky, the commune members chanted work songs as they used fishing nets to catch the seedlings. The fishing moratorium on Lake Montana was not long, and the commune also adhered to the unspoken rule among the fishermen not to fish during the moratorium.
As you look around, fish farms belonging to the commune spring up along the lakeshore. Fish fry farming is a new technology for fishermen in Lake Montana, and not everyone can afford it.
But the commune did just that. The fishermen organized themselves under the commune's call and invested their funds in reproduction. The civil war had now reached this stage, the Columbia Gold Certificate had collapsed, and the Emerald Dollar, Victoria Pound, and precious metals were all the rage. Meanwhile, the labor certificates issued in the base area became increasingly strong due to the agriculture around Montana.
Like the fishermen, the agricultural areas around Lake Montana are also an important food-producing region in the United States of Colombia. The vast plains and thick black soil have fed most of Colombia and were once the core of Colombia's westward expansion movement.
Small farmers, rich farmers, ranchers—that was the situation in the base area. During the August storm, ranchers were brought down, and people denounced the wealthy who controlled vast amounts of land. In Montana, ranchers were once a significant force influencing the local state government, second only to the industrial capitalists established in Montana City.
In its early days, Colombia was also dotted with public societies established by utopian thinkers. These public societies were built on the land, and social idealists attempted to organize the poor and create the ideal society they envisioned.
The problem is that no matter how much they build them, these public societies either perish internally or ultimately succumb to unforeseen circumstances. Yet, the public society models established years ago were once utopian ideals in the hearts of many.
In those public societies, it was not uncommon to use mechanized magic for agricultural production, and a large number of decommissioned military armored vehicles entered the market and were handed over to the pioneers during the Great Westward Expansion.
Trucks were used for transportation, and tanks were converted into tractors. At least in that era, organized communal farmers had the ability to utilize mechanized agriculture.
But the good days didn't last long. Most public societies ended two or three years ago. Utopianism failed to establish a complete administrative plan, and capitalists didn't let them have their way. With the development of the oil technology industry, some public societies were plundered by petrochemical giants, while others fared better. With the change in social thought, land in some collapsed public societies was distributed to self-sufficient farmers, and some people hoped that individual initiative would bring about the liberation of productivity.
But how could small farmers, who had regressed to the Middle Ages, compare with mechanized agriculture? In most of the collapsed public society, the divided farmland was fragmented and small, and the self-sufficient farmers found that although they now owned their fragmented land, they could no longer afford the costs of mechanized agriculture.
Agriculture has reverted to its state of being for thousands of years. Under the sun, mechanized agricultural equipment is either sold to farmers or simply left to rust in the sun, becoming rusty graves. The self-sufficient farmers who have divided up the public society do not allow anyone to take their wealth. Unsellable agricultural equipment is dismantled into pieces and sent to scrap yards for disposal, or simply left there.
The labor and hardship of agriculture are not something everyone can endure. Farmers expanded their territories, and as their farms grew larger, they became more and more accustomed to mechanized agriculture. Their farmhands decreased, and more and more capital was used for reproduction, eventually leading to the giant farms that are now scattered throughout Colombia.
The agricultural communes in Montana are now trying to solve this problem.
For agricultural communes, the land of Montana is now divided into several agricultural communes, each with a vast scale. On these lands, agricultural machinery is roaring again, and farmers organized by the communes can once again afford the costs of mechanized agriculture. Agricultural machinery communes have also been organized in a timely manner to provide agricultural communes with everything they need for mechanized agriculture.
The commune distributed resources based on labor, with more work resulting in more pay. After each labor session, each member would assign each other a labor score, which would ensure fairness in the system, allowing one to supervise another randomly while being supervised by others.
Through various labor evaluation methods, commune members could obtain their labor remuneration in the most equitable way; at least, that was the original intention of the system.
The widely organized communes were not only production units but also educational organizations. Alice was determined to promote large-scale literacy campaigns and proletarian education because the revolution of proletarian consciousness was not only an education in the proletarian worldview but also a movement to popularize science.
A society where the proletariat is the master requires everyone to start from scientific theory, to view the world and themselves with a scientific attitude, and to combine scientific theory with practice.
This is a movement that will last for generations.