"Yes, I'm not worried about the Great Proletarian Revolution." Scrooge said seriously, "Because I think the United States still lacks the foundation for such a revolution to take place."

"American particularism?" Marx laughed. "I've heard this argument countless times from religious people and bourgeois moralists. But the process by which you came to this conclusion may be a little interesting, because our goal Although they are different, we look at problems from very similar angles. Let me know what you think."

"Well," said Scrooge, "the United States has a large area of undeveloped land, and the government does not have strong control. Unlike in Prussia, the Junkers can easily take the original public forests as their own. , and let those who pick up branches in the mountains become thieves. So in the United States, it is difficult for capitalists to exploit free workers like in Europe, because if the workers' lives are too miserable, they can simply go to the West, to enclose a piece of land to be a farmer. This is one of the reasons why American industry has been suppressed by Europe. The cost in Europe is too low, and their wages are too low so even if their finished products cost freight, they are shipped. The price is still lower than ours. Well, from this point of view, any victory of the European proletariat is a good thing for us.

And to make the government's control stronger, it is necessary to build a very strong army. While this is a good idea, maintaining such a strong government, in the long run, is too expensive. You must know that the United States now has an army of fewer than 60,000 people, but it is enough to suppress the resistance of the domestic proletariat. And if the oppression of workers is to be raised to European standards, then the standards of the army, police, prisons, and the like must be raised to European standards accordingly. This requires more than a little money, and the money can only come from taxes. In this way, a large part of the excess profit from rising oppression is offset. The efficiency of doing so is not as good as raising tariffs. The effect that raising tariffs can achieve, at least in the short term, is better than establishing a strong European-style government. Well, of course, this is not good for the South, and those slave owners will object. However, the difficulty and long-term cost of overthrowing the slave owners in the South must be far less than establishing a strong government and continuously suppressing workers with high pressure.

In addition, our government can also alleviate class conflicts by continuously attacking and even exterminating Indians, depriving them of their land and wealth. Of course, the undeveloped land is not unlimited, and there will be a day when the Indians will be killed, and the land in their hands will be deprived of it. At that time, there will be no difference between the United States and Europe. But it will take time, even generations. Before that, I was not at all worried that the American proletariat would rise for the revolution. Mr. Marx, because the workers in the United States tend to have guns in their hands, and the government is relatively weak, so resistance is always relatively easy. However, the urgency for American workers to overthrow the rule of the bourgeoisie and establish their political power is far inferior to that of the European proletariat. Therefore, I think that the center of gravity of the proletarian revolution is still in Europe. "

"There is some truth in explaining 'American Particularism' from this perspective," Marx said, "but the proletariat in North America is also being exploited and oppressed. This is also an indisputable fact. Perhaps as you said, the proletariat in North America The time to overthrow the bourgeois regime and establish a real democratic country is not yet ripe, but organizing the proletariat to resist oppression is of great significance, whether it is to promote the consciousness of the proletarian revolutionary consciousness or improve the social status of the proletariat. So we will not relax our attention and support for the struggle of the American proletariat."

"Of course. I fully understand and support this." Scrooge said.

"Because you hope that the revolutionary action of the proletariat will help you fight your rivals."

"That's right. Besides, Mr. Marx. My company can temporarily serve as a benchmark for workers to fight for their interests. You must know that my company is one of the few companies that implement an 8-hour working day and has a 'conscience'." Scrooge said.

"The conscience of capitalists." Marx smiled, with a hint of sarcasm in his smile.

"That's right, the 'capitalist's conscience'." Scrooge also laughed brazenly.

...

Early the next morning, Scrooge arrived at the railway station in the carriage provided by Prince Albert and took the train to Cambridge. Cambridge is more than 90 kilometers away from London and is the second oldest university in the UK. It is also the second oldest university in the English-speaking world. Until the 21st century, it remains one of the best universities in the world. If a university is an ivory tower, then Cambridge University is a well-deserved ivory tower. In the original time and space, since its establishment in 1209, by the beginning of the 21st century, Cambridge University had produced a total of 90 Dynamite Prize winners, ranking first in the world. Elsewhere, Dynamite winners are already huge, but at Cambridge, 90 Dynamite winners are not its proudest. What makes it most proud is that on its campus, there have been some real masters (compared to these masters, the so-called 'masters' that the fans of the Republic of China talk about don't know where they are going. The gap between them maybe even bigger than that of Wang Chongyang, number one in the world in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and Song Bingjia, who was trained by Mei Chaofeng.).

Among the alumni of Cambridge, the most famous must be Newton. This "encyclopedia-style all-rounder" with an IQ of 180 is said to have proposed Newton's three laws of physics to establish the foundation of modern physics, and the calculus he invented in mathematics created a world beyond algebra and geometry. Another important branch - is mathematical analysis. Even in the field of economics, this master's has outstanding performance. The "gold standard" system that has influenced human history for hundreds of years was proposed by Newton.

Another famous master is Darwin, the author of "The Origin of Species" which shocked the world's scientific and philosophical circles. In addition, Maxwell, who founded the theory of electromagnetism, and Bacon, known as "the true ancestor of the entire modern experimental science", also graduated from Cambridge University.

To give lectures in such a university, in Chinese terms, is a bit like playing tricks on others. Scrooge also understands that many people are not convinced by the honor he has achieved now. Especially since I'm an American. Just as many Americans dislike the British, the British also dislike the Americans. In particular, I can't understand why Americans always label themselves as the beacon of freedom and put adjectives such as greed, evil, and brutality on the United Kingdom. If not all the viewpoints in my paper can be strictly proved by experiments, I am afraid that I don’t know how many people will jump out to oppose my viewpoint. But even if they couldn't deny the viewpoints in "Research on the Causes of Some Infectious Diseases and the Effect of Certain Chemical Substances on Them", which were supported by rigorous logic and repeatable experiments, they still approached him from other angles. launched an attack. Some people say that Scrooge Macdonald is not the real author of "A Study on the Causes of Some Infectious Diseases and the Effect of Certain Chemical Substances on Them", but that the real author is someone else. (This is also a commonly used trick. To this day, some people still believe that "The Complete Works of Shakespeare" was not written by Shakespeare, but by someone else; and "Quiet River Don" was picked up by Sholokhov on the battlefield, the real author was an unknown White Army officer.)

Others turned to criticize Scrooge Macdonald's character under the condition that they could not question the "Research on the Causes of Some Infectious Diseases and the Effects of Certain Chemical Substances on Them" academically. (Although Scrooge's moral character is not very good) So various rumors emerged, that Scrooge secretly bought a large number of black slaves to develop medicines, and he established a small island near the United States. A death institute code-named 731 tortured and killed countless black people. He also gave those blacks a code name called "logs". And what Scrooge's first fortune came from being a child prostitute for some millionaire, how Scrooge's dad was a counterfeiter, what... blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. , It is simply a reprint of Mark Twain's "Running for Governor".

Under these circumstances, Scrooge could almost imagine that when he went to Cambridge to give lectures, those people would not take the opportunity to take advantage of him. Well, for example, arrange some people to come up with various difficult problems to test themselves or something. Of course, if it is too difficult and perverted, not only will Scrooge never be able to solve it, but even they will not be able to solve it. Don't worry about it. Because even if he can't solve such a problem, it doesn't mean that he is a parallel importer.

However, Scrooge still has some confidence in himself. With the current level of science in Europe, it is not difficult to come up with a mathematical problem that baffles him and keeps him unable to solve it for a long time. But in the field where his achievements lie, the requirements for mathematics are not as high as those of physics. So even if these people stumped him in mathematics, it would not have much impact on his status in the fields of chemistry and microbiology. So if someone wants to test themselves, the probability of problems in chemistry and microbiology is probably the highest. However, Scrooge felt that the level of chemistry and microbiology in this era should not be difficult for him.

Compared with the high-speed railways of later generations, the trains of this era are as slow as snails. The average speed is probably a little over thirty kilometers per hour. But at the time, this was already very fast. It is said that Queen Victoria took a train for the first time. After the train reached a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, the Queen was so nervous that her face turned pale and she almost fainted. From London to Cambridge, less than a hundred kilometers away, it took nearly four hours. So much so that Scrooge had to eat lunch in the car. By the time Scrooge arrived, it was already around one o'clock in the afternoon.