Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 417 Struggle Strategy
What conditions are needed to launch a workers' movement? This is a question worth exploring.

After all, it is not always appropriate to launch a workers' movement to fight for the interests of the broad masses of workers.

For example, if external conditions are insufficient, the enemy is too powerful, or we are facing special circumstances such as war or famine, under such external conditions, it would be somewhat inappropriate to launch a workers' movement.

Of course, if the social unrest caused by defeat or famine has aroused widespread social dissatisfaction with the rulers, then this is the best time to launch a workers' movement, because launching a workers' movement at this time can often gain broad support and play a key role.

Therefore, knowing when to launch workers' protests and when to be patient, compromise and temporarily give in is a test of a leader's ability.

Sometimes, if the timing is not right, an action that originally had a great chance of success may face the possibility of failure.

However, more important than the external environment is whether the workers have the necessary conditions to launch a workers' movement.

For example, whether the working group is united enough, whether they fully realize the necessity of struggle, whether they have clear goals of struggle, and more importantly, whether they are guided by scientific ideas.

The goals of the early workers' movement were simple: to increase wages, reduce working hours while increasing wages, and most importantly, the freedom to organize collectively.

The first two are easy to understand and are also the most simple demands of the working group, while the latter is the basis for whether the workers' movement can fight against capitalists.

As the owner of capital and means of production, the capitalist has all economic power in his favor. As long as workers compete with each other for work, they will have no power to struggle against their employers.

In this case, the "rules of the game" are purely in favor of the capitalists: the capitalists can set wages very low at will, and the workers have to accept them because they are afraid of losing their jobs and thus their means of living.

Only by ceasing to compete with one another, by confronting their employers collectively, by refusing to work under unacceptable conditions, can the workers stand a chance of gaining something in their struggle with the capitalists.

Experience quickly taught them that if they did not have the freedom to organize collectively, they would have no weapons to oppose capitalist oppression.

On this point, Perfect taught Karen from the very beginning to unite and combine all forces that can be united, so Karen established a workers' union from the very beginning to unite workers and engineers from different factories throughout the city, making them a whole and having the strength to fight against capitalists.

And now, she has expanded the entire organization to most of the New World colonies, making the working group not only unprecedentedly strong but also exceptionally united.

Objectively speaking, the necessary conditions for the rise of the workers' movement and even struggle have been met. As for the external environment, the contradiction between capitalists and workers is not particularly acute. Although the workers are very dissatisfied with their employers due to unemployment, low wages, long working hours and other issues, this is still at the early stage of the workers' movement and has not developed to a deeper stage of struggle.

"In the offensive stage of the workers' movement, strike organization must contain a certain degree of class organization. This implies in particular the idea that the interests of every hired worker are determined by collective action; it proposes a solution of class unity and opposes solutions that attempt to increase personal interests without regard to the interests of other hired workers." Perfect talked with Karen, and passed on the knowledge he knew and understood to Karen without reservation: "So if you plan to launch a large-scale workers' movement, then you must pay special attention to the occurrence of individual cities or factories' individual negotiations, resumption of work, and other events.

Although I am not sure that this will happen, as the struggle lasts longer, the time that workers in different regions and factories can hold out will also be different. As a leader and organizer, you must pay special attention to this issue. "

"I've remembered. You are right. I have noticed that the representatives from different regions are not of one mind. There are huge differences and contradictions between the worker representatives from economically developed areas and those from economically poor areas. Their demands are also completely different. It takes me a lot of effort just to coordinate them to avoid conflicts and to make them willing to sit down and talk together!" Karen wrote down what Perfectcott said while pouring out her grievances to her. Although she has already had enough awareness to devote herself to this great cause, this does not prevent Karen from being a girl who has just come of age. She also has troubles and depression and wants to find someone to talk to.

In response to Kallen showing her weak side in front of him, Perfect simply gave him an inclusive smile.

During this period of time, Perfect had been paying attention to Kallen and the Workers' Union she founded. The Northern Assassin Brotherhood and intelligence organizations had been obtaining relevant information and intelligence about them and summarizing them in front of Perfect.

She knew clearly that Karen was a brave and determined person. She had spent nearly two years to establish a workers' organization covering most of the New World colonies. She also led this workers' organization to launch many actions such as strikes, protests, and marches, and won a lot of rights for the workers. This was enough to show that she was also a very capable person.

At the same time, this is enough to prove how effective Karen's work is. No wonder the pseudonym she used would be wanted by the New World colonial authorities with a very high reward.

If it were Perfect, she would probably offer a higher reward and send someone to assassinate him directly, or simply send out the Steam Knights to uproot the entire Workers' Union.

Having studied the history of the workers' movement in her original world, she clearly knew what an excellent workers' leader meant to the workers' movement.

But everyone has a weak side. Even Kallen will feel tired and exhausted sometimes. She is willing to show this side to herself, which is also a very novel experience for Perfect.

There are not many people in this world to whom she can confide her sorrows and troubles without reservation, and Karen may even be the only one.

After all, there were very few friends or acquaintances who were so close to Perfectcot, and as an elder, Princess Anne obviously couldn't confide in a younger person like this, so after all the calculations, the only one left was Karen.

(End of this chapter)