New Shun 1730

John Hancock walked through the drunken crowd and came to Joseph Warren who was preaching.

I ordered a glass of Madeira wine, a Portuguese wine that was as rich as syrup and mixed with the aroma of orange peel and honey. It was his favorite wine. Not one.

Historically, he was caught by customs for smuggling Madeira wine. John Adams, cousin of Samuel Adams and later the second president, as his lawyer, won the case and was thus regarded as the beginning of the revolution. Later, Madura wine was also full of historical flavor and was pushed to an unprecedented height.

At this time, John Hancock simply liked the rich aroma of this wine, a pure love for a wine without any political correctness or historical addition.

After saying hello to the acquaintances around him, John Hancock looked at Joseph Warren who was speaking there, and nodded slightly to him while taking a breath.

Joseph Warren wore a very ordinary jacket and a white velvet scarf around his neck, both very ordinary attire.

The only difference is that he has a ring on his finger.

A ring full of occult color, but there is no need to hide it too much here.

The ring is embossed with the mark of a skull. On top of the skull is a compass with splayed legs. At the corner of the compass is a strange eye.

As usual, every time Joseph Warren spoke, he would place strange emphasis on prepositions, which sounded slightly weird, but very passionate.

Unlike usual, Joseph Warren was preaching on an ancient Greek book.

"It is not easy to build an ideal nation. With compromise, vote-based politics is the most suitable for New England."

"Plato believed that the optimal number of people for this perfect voting system is 5,040 people."

"It can ensure that every word spoken by the person preaching in front can be heard by the 5,039 people below."

"Everyone of these 5,040 citizens is very familiar with each other. In daily life, they know everyone's morals, behavior, and whether they are worthy of respect and trust..."

"The territory of the community should be sufficient to support a certain number of the most temperate people, but no larger, and the population of the community should be sufficient to protect itself against aggression."

"5040 people is a perfect number..."

John Hancock went to Harvard. Although he initially studied theology at Harvard, he eventually heard about Plato’s Laws.

Plato's teachings are reinterpreted here, and re-annotated by Joseph Warren, making John Hancock nod frequently.

But it's just that if the people who stopped and listened here were the people from the Dashun New School, they would not be very interested in these things.

This is not because of nationality or tradition.

It's because the economic base determines the superstructure.

Human consciousness exists based on material reality.

In Boston, a society where everyone knows each other, has a population of tens of thousands, and has acquaintances with each other, talking about this is certainly in line with the basis of material reality at this time.

To a group of people who have grown up knowing that a society with a population of hundreds of millions relies on imperial examinations to select talents and maintain governance, they will inevitably feel that the Peach Blossom Spring is beautiful, but unrealistic.

Lao Ma once said: [In principle of economics, many people confuse two very different types of private ownership. 】

[One is the private ownership of labor in which producers own the means of production based on their own labor. 】

[The other is based on the exploitation of other people’s labor. 】

[The latter not only must be in direct opposition to the former, but must also develop entirely on the grave of the former.]

In North America at this time, and from this time until the completion of the transition in 1830, these two types of private ownership actually existed in a confused form.

The special environment of North America, the Puritans' farming work, the vast land, and the slaughter and occupation of the indigenous peoples made most colonists "just have enough capital to use their own hands."

This group of people, who are mainly farmers, small producers, and petty bourgeois, relying on the actual conditions and class foundation of North America at this time, are undoubtedly very easy to accept what Joseph Warren preached, Plato is based on city-states, acquaintance society, and family slavery. The 5,040-person vote-based politics conceived.

Just as Russia once "suffered both from the development of capitalism and from the insufficient development of capitalism."

North America has experienced essentially the same thing, but in different forms.

Lao Ma said: [The expropriation of people’s land forms the basis of the capitalist production method. 】

[As for cultivation and colonization (the colonization here refers to the type like North America, not the type in India), most of the land belongs to the people. Each colonist can convert part of that land into his own private property and into his own personal means of production, without harming the activities of those who come after him. 】

[This is the secret of the prosperity and chronic disease of the settlement colonies—the resistance to capital colonization. 】

History follows this path and rushes forward.

As the land is gradually occupied, immigrants increase, latecomers can accept lower wages, and more immigrants who do not have their own means of production and can only be employed by others gradually increase.

By the 1830s, it was marked by Jacob Astor, who became the richest man in the United States with $20 million and began investing in New York real estate through his trade with China.

The two types of confused private ownership finally separated the winner and the loser, and finally shattered the political structure conceived by the fathers of North America based on acquaintance society and petty bourgeois private ownership.

A great development of capitalism has begun.

The kind of private ownership based on the extraction of other people's labor has gradually replaced the kind of private ownership based on one's own labor with higher productivity and production relations that are more in line with the level of productivity.

This is what Lao Ma said: Capitalist private ownership must destroy private property based on one's own labor, must deprive workers, and use this as a condition.

And this condition is manifested in different forms in various countries.

In North America, due to subsequent large-scale immigration, land occupation by capital, and the expansion of the population that was gradually unable to accommodate the perfect petty bourgeois peasant society, the threshold was reached around 1830, which finally triggered the Civil War.

This is also the historical connection between red necks and the north in later generations.

One is essentially a conservative petty bourgeois consciousness derived from private ownership based on self-labor.

One is the consciousness derived from private ownership based on depriving others of the fruits of their labor.

But as Lao Ma said, these two types of private ownership are often confused.

Even, in fact, at this time, the differences between the two types of private ownership have begun to emerge. Because at this time, the per capita assets in the southern countryside were 392 pounds, while the per capita assets in the northern villages were only over 200 pounds.

Including the subsequent crossing of the Appalachian Mountains, the invasion of the West, the Homestead Act, etc., they were all attempts to continue the cornerstone of the founding of the country.

The farther away from the city, the further away from the plantation, the less people and more land, the deeper this original tradition becomes.

It should be said that at the beginning of the founding of North America, the ideology based on the private ownership of small-scale colonists at that time required more and more patches as the times progressed.

The self-organization derived from the community of acquaintance society and the ideology of small producers at the grassroots level; the contradictions and rifts created between the empire itself and the interests of the big bourgeoisie.

In essence, it is a distortion caused by the distortion of these two types of private ownership and their unification under the concept of "private ownership".

When the "Sutra" was written, it was an era when small producers, homesteaders, and every worker could obtain their own land and means of production.

In the new era, problems will definitely arise with this kind of scriptures. This is inevitable.

A country that needs more population, more labor force, and more intensive capital; a country that needs an appropriate population can convert part of that land into its own private ownership and personal means of production, but it also needs to add a A premise that still does no harm to latecomers.

In a sense, Dashun's insistence on carving up North America this time can be regarded as a process of promoting history.

The land in the west, the land in the south, and the land in the north are occupied. The population base that the thirteen states can accommodate "can convert part of that land into their own private property and into individual means of production." The threshold is smaller.

In other words, it would take less than the 1830s for a productive population that was stripped of the means of production to develop real capitalism. The industrialization of North America and the industrial development that breaks down the ownership of small producers will also be greatly advanced.

With ten cows and one hundred acres of land, who will work in the factory?

Dashun will never allow East Coasters to cross the Appalachian Mountains to find new lands for colonization to ensure that more people have their own land.

Because Dashun is also using a similar method to try to let the Dashun people on the west coast have their own reclamation land.

This [the essence of the prosperity and ills of colonization—resistance to capital colonization] is the economic basis of all that Joseph Warren preached at this time.

Because these things are really in line with the economic foundation of the east coast of North America at this time, so that they are so tempting and in line with people's vision of the ideal country at this time.

It's not wrong or even inappropriate.

But its problem is that it is too timely.

Because of the emergence of Dashun and Liu Yu's attempt to lure trans-Pacific immigrants with gold mines, this "opportune period" was greatly shortened.

In any case, what Joseph Warren said at this time is a good thing. It is also a correct choice based on the economic foundation and material conditions at this time.

Of course, this is also beneficial to Dashun’s sales. The consumption power of small producers and farmers is still very high.