Chapter 1537 - 51: Vicious Plan_2

Chapter 1537: Chapter 51: Vicious Plan_2

The rise of East Africa on the African Continent is due to its being the first political power to break through the coastal eggshells of Africa. Before East Africa, most coastal areas of Africa were already ’claimed’.

However, the agricultural era has passed, and now East Africa is an industrial Great Power, with increasing ability to transform nature.

East Africa must now consider how to configure appropriate social systems and order as its productivity level reaches industrialization.

If this issue is not resolved, as a monarchy nation, East Africa will face the emerging bourgeoisie’s struggle for power, and more aggressively, the Labor Party members.

The threat from the former, generally speaking, is weaker than the latter, but cannot be ignored. After all, the French Revolution was not a joke; when the bourgeoisie gets tough, they are relentless.

In response to the social issues that need progress due to improved productivity, Ernst has also made many configurations, attempting to transform East Africa into a constitutional state by the mid-century. Consequently, the power and influence of the royal family in East Africa will weaken, but the constitution will also strengthen the protection of the rights and status of the royal family. After all, the constitution is for restricting government power and ensuring citizen rights, and in Ernst’s understanding, the royal family naturally belongs to the citizens.

Overall, Ernst does not fear the bourgeoisie’s soft approach, but fears the Labor Party, especially those Russian Labor Party members who show their knives directly. This is also why imperialist nations like to say that the Russian Labor Party is unruly.

After all, rules and laws are established by beneficiaries of the old order like Ernst. If the Labor Party really follows the rules, they cannot achieve their so-called advancement of society, because rules mean ’unchanging’, while progress is ’change’ towards a favorable direction.

Of course, ’change’ is not always towards a favorable direction. For example, some of the ’change’ in late Soviet times, in some respects, was inferior to ’unchanging’. However, they couldn’t even achieve ’unchanging’; Leonid’s era aspired for ’unchanging’, but in practice made significant ’backward’ strides.

Anyhow, from a dialectical perspective, the development of matters yields only two outcomes, and leaders of any country, including Ernst, can only strive to drive trends towards favorable directions. This does not include the tyrants from past lives, who were entirely devoid of humanity.

For example, in their past lives, many ’benevolent monarchs’ in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America had no concept of the nation; they took power entirely for personal gains, without contributing anything to society.

Regarding Ernst’s caution and concerns, Maureen said, "Your Majesty, rest assured, it’s not easy for the Labor Party members to gain momentum. The Russian Labor Party succeeded because Russia had too many problems, and some maneuvers of the Tsarist Russia government amplified the Russian Labor Party’s opportunities infinitely."

"For now, East Africa does not have such concerns. After all, our situation is far better than Tsarist Russia, and in terms of development, only Germany, the United States, Japan, and us are on the same level."

Of course, Maureen refers to the national development statuses in recent years; the shared attribute of Germany, the United States, Japan, and East Africa is that all four countries are emerging industrial nations.

However, Germany’s current development is beginning to peak, corresponding to Germany having the highest level of industrialization among the four countries. Therefore, they face the issue that further pushing industrial capacity increases provides diminishing returns, unless Germany can gain access to more markets.

But in this regard, Germany’s conditions are even inferior to Japan since Japan’s geopolitical environment is like a situation where the monkey becomes the king due to the absence of tigers in the mountains, prevailing thoroughly in regional development, whereas East Africa and the United States both have large market sizes, with a much higher threshold for error than countries like Germany.

Maureen continued, "As long as there isn’t a significant economic problem leading to mass unemployment and poverty, the Labor Party naturally won’t expand in East Africa, and even if the situation does develop to such a state, the chances of the Labor Party succeeding are not high."

"Whether the Labor Party can succeed is like a chemical experiment; multiple chemical substances must act together to trigger a chemical reaction."

Maureen’s analogy is very vivid. This means that other nations’ Labor Parties attempting to replicate the Russian Labor Party’s success model is fundamentally quite demanding in terms of conditions.

Despite Maureen’s confidence, Ernst is not entirely relieved. After all, the world’s situation now includes the emergence of the first Labor Party regime country, and the Russian Labor Party acts like a catalyst capable of accelerating chemical reactions.

Indeed, after the Soviet Union’s past life success, a series of Labor Party nations emerged in Eastern Europe and the Far East, even the mighty United States faced significant infiltration despite being separated from the Soviet Union by an ocean.

Therefore, Ernst must not be careless. He said to Maureen, "Whether the enemy can succeed, that’s not our excuse to be complacent. Regarding real Labor Party organizations, especially Russian-type Labor Party organizations, it’s better to err in killing a thousand than to let one slip by."

The reason Ernst mentioned the word ’real’ is naturally because he believes there are non-real Labor Parties, exemplified by the British Labor Party and the Nationalist Parties founded by Benito in Italy, Adolf in Germany, and Francisco in Spain.

These latter three, in reality, largely resemble the ’Labor Party’, especially in some of their policy guidelines. In fact, if the East African Government were a bit more extreme, there would be no essential difference between them.