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    France these days is dominated by a funeral and a carnival.  These two things are actually the same thing - the army that won the victory on the Crimean Peninsula began to gradually return to the French mainland, receiving a warm welcome from the enthusiastic citizens, and at the same time, they also welcomed back  With the coffin of Marshal Victor de Treville, the commander of the French army, the Bonaparte Empire lost a pillar of its prestige, and the conspirators in the Tuileries Palace sighed helplessly.  It was a blessing for Marshal Treville to die at the peak of victory. From then on, he will leave his name in history and become a synonym for victory that will always be remembered by the French.  However, for the living Bonaparte believers, what they face is not just glorious victory and glory, they face something much more difficult.  In order to carry out this war, France has been heavily in debt, and its already precarious budget has been burdened with a heavy burden. In the next few decades, the French people will have to bear even heavier taxes in order to maintain such expenditures.  In these turbulent years, so many people in France have no food and clothing, and so many people have no fixed place to live. However, their government has spent astronomical sums of money to fight in a distant place, where even most of them  Most of them have never heard of and have never threatened France in their lives. This is the glory that these Bonaparte gangsters have brought to France!  Of course, although it was also militaristic, if you regard Louis Bonaparte and this empire as the same ruling model as Louis XIV, you would be making a mechanistic mistake.  In fact, if we pick up a magnifying glass and take a closer look at this empire, we will find that it is a brand new monster catalyzed by capitalism, and its power and danger are much greater than the empire of Louis XIV.  .  In the distant era of Louis XIV, France was an enemy of Europe several times and fought perennial wars. There is no need to go into details about the terrible consequences of the War of the Grand Alliance and the War of Spanish Succession. We only need to know that at the end of the reign of Louis XIV,  , France is already a country riddled with problems, financially bankrupt, and a dynasty in danger. A dynasty in which countless people died during the Great Famine, so much so that when Louis XIV himself was dying, he also advised his great-grandson Louis XV, who succeeded him to the throne, not to  Go fight again!  And what about today?  Although France spent huge amounts of military expenditures and supplies on its expedition thousands of miles away, the domestic economic situation was quite prosperous, the market was booming, and credit was expanding, so that the huge consumption seemed to give the country a tonic, even if  The people who were most opposed to this dynasty also benefited from the economic prosperity, or at least tacitly recognized the rule of the bandits over the country.  Why is there such a difference between the two eras before and after, when they were also engaged in huge-scale wars?  Why does this counterintuitive, magic-like prosperity occur?  This is the consequence of the magic wand of capitalism.  The developed financial industry supports France's current economy. The dominant Bank of France monopolizes France's currency supply, and based on its advantageous position, it coordinates the financial sector so that the country can fully utilize its accumulated resources over centuries.  wealth while increasing the government's ability to raise funds.  Sophisticated financiers provided the government with huge debts - the huge debt provided the government with unprecedented resources and action capabilities - the government's resources were entered into the corporate system through government orders - the prosperity of the companies eventually transformed into  Market prosperity.  Yes, Louis XIV's wars ultimately brought his government and its people to the brink of extinction, but the wars waged by Louis-Bonaparte made him and his oligarchs, the financiers and industrialists, rich.  Wealth and debt were thrown into the future for future French people to bear. People see the prosperity they have now, so it is difficult to fear the future. This is the magic played by capitalism in France.  In a sense, the war between Russia, which is immersed in the old feudal era, and France, which has been transformed beyond recognition by financiers, is a war of two eras. In the end, the advanced defeated the backward and  Not surprising.  Although I have said countless bad things about the absurdity of Louis Bonaparte and the evil and fragility of his empire, I will still speak for Bonaparte in the face of the Russian Empire that is corrupt, enslaved, degenerate, and ignorant.  ¡ª¡ªNo matter how ridiculous the oligarchs and warlords represented by Bonaparte are, they will still be superior to the tsar and his serf owners.  "These are monsters cultivated by capitalism in the course of a hundred years of development. Louis Bonaparte saw the power of these monsters, and he criticized them.He was diligent and promised that as long as he took France into his hands, he would definitely give this country to these monsters, and these monsters were willing to put him on the throne and regard him as their leader. They were such a group of industrialists, financial  The combination of politicians and careerists eventually gave birth to a group of oligarchs who controlled France, and also pushed this military empire onto the path of war and adventure.  However, as we all know, magic will always be seen through one day, and this kind of game will eventually become unplayable.  Inadvertently, the French people cheering for victory and glory, those who work hard and uncomplainingly, those who endure all kinds of harsh laws and exorbitant taxes imposed on them by the Tuileries Palace, they and their descendants  Future generations have become slaves to this huge debt - the people who were intoxicated by the glory of "national victory" thought they had obtained the glory of the empire, but what they got were only astronomical shackles, which will trap  Live them for decades!  This is not the scariest place.  This game will have no end. The oligarchs must maintain the profits they have made and the prosperity they have created, so they must create adventures and crises again and again, must create more debt, and in turn must launch more  Many wars.  Such a dangerous move would destabilize the entire Europe and eventually engulf themselves.  The departure of Marshal Treville represents the end of the old Napoleonic Emperor era and the end of half a century of entanglement between the French Empire and the Russian Empire. However, it definitely does not represent the end of Bonaparte¡¯s military adventurism, or even ours.  It can be said with great certainty that in the future, the new Emperor Bonaparte will carry out more and larger-scale military adventures, bringing more fear and chaos to Europe.  This prediction, of course, does not come from the alarmism of astrologers, but from the objective laws revealed by the iron-clad reality. In the coming years, we will definitely see it coming.  This is the reality we should see.  It is conceivable that in the next few years or more, Louis Bonaparte and his oligarch supporters will launch one war after another. They will continue to fight Austria, Prussia, and perhaps England.  , and even fought with them all, until all these wars exceeded the empire's capacity and caused this ridiculous empire to usher in its destined collapse.  This is the inevitable trend. Even if Louis Bonaparte knew that the adventure he launched would eventually engulf him one day, he had to go on like this, because the end of this capitalist beast is there, and it is not swallowed by debt.  , that is, overwhelmed by the war.  In the process, fierce internal strife will entangle the empire, making it impossible to escape - the oligarchs' interests overlap and greatly conflict with each other, so their political views will change along with their interests.  It is self-evident that different demands arise. We can imagine that fierce conflicts of interest will eventually evolve into endless internal fighting. In countries controlled by warlords, the internal fighting will be more intense than ordinary people think.  The imagination is many times more intense.  Perhaps from this point of view, Louis Bonaparte, who shed tears and grieved at the funeral of Marshal Treville, may not be so sad in his heart, but may be full of some kind of happiness, because a man with great energy  The warlord was taken away by God and would never threaten his status again.  And Charles de Treville, the young man we mentioned several times before, the oligarch and favorite whom Louis Bonaparte relied on, after losing the influence and protection of his grandfather, still  Can he maintain his position, or will he be overwhelmed by jealous fellow bandits who are desperate to take his place?  Everything is still in chaos, but we can predict that the Tuileries Palace in the next few years will be swaying between fierce internal strife and external military adventures. This is also an objective fact.  Going towards military adventure in the fierce internal fighting, and to the inevitable demise in military adventure. Is this just the fate of the French Empire?  No, capital and its spokesmen, the thirst for profit, the pursuit of adventure, and the love of blood, have no national boundaries. In a sense, these are ruled by financiers, or will soon be ruled by financiers.  Countries will also follow this path. Their class nature and profit needs will cause the combination of warlords and financiers in each country, and this will destined these European powers to embark on expansion, competition and the final duel.  And the path to destruction.  We can conclude that even if the Bonaparte dynasty is destroyed, the oligarchic powers that replaced them will still carry out military conquests in places that almost no one has heard of, and consume astronomical amounts of money.And adding inescapable debt shackles to their own citizens, the degeneration of capitalism can only allow them to go down this path - England will do this, Prussia will do this, Austria will do this, and future oligarchic powers will still do this.  .  Compared with the gentle, decadent aristocratic landowners, perhaps capitalism and the oligarchs it spawned are more evil, but they are certainly more proactive and will devote all their talents to the pursuit of excellence.  The empire controlled by them will expand comprehensively until everything is divided. They will eventually fight each other and bring unprecedented terror and disaster to the world.  These people who enjoy the highest living standards in human history, these people who should be obliged to devote all their efforts to the people, these people who have been pushed to the highest level of power by money, use this way to repay their excessive contributions.  Profits belong to the general public. This is the inherent evil of capitalism. After understanding all this, can't we still understand how natural and urgent it is to eliminate them?  Yes, time is too urgent. Before the young people of Europe are forced to arm themselves and fight each other, before the world is forced to bleed and be trampled by countless armies, before each nation is slaughtered and destroyed, all peace-loving people,  We should all see the truth clearly, seize the last moment to unite, break all the shameless lies that are forced on people, discard the "brilliance" and "glory" that do not exist at all, break the fog created by these oligarchs, and unite  Overthrow these oligarchs.  Only in this way can this world, which has been transformed beyond recognition and is about to be dyed red with blood, come out of the mud; only these enslaved working people can have a chance to usher in their own tomorrow.  We don¡¯t have much time, but I firmly believe that we can do it all.
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