Moreover, this concept of consumerism is still spreading, and this situation is most obvious in the market of our food industry. In our traditional agricultural society in the past, the shadow of famine was always lingering, and every year people everywhere suffered from food shortages.

Starve to death if you are not full. But in our wealthy world today, the biggest health problem is obesity! And this obesity has the greatest impact on us poor people, because rich people generally know how to choose organic food.

Or fruits and the like. But poor people usually talk about food like hamburgers or pizza. In fact, the money that civilians in many countries spend every year on dieting is enough to support their families who are suffering in other places.

Hungry people. As for obesity, we can say it is a double victory of consumerism. Why should we understand it this way? In fact, it is very simple. We might as well think about it. On the one hand, if we all eat too little, this will

It will cause the economy to shrink, which is not good at all. On the other hand, after people eat too much, they have to buy weight loss products, because if they don’t lose weight, they will get various diseases, so when buying weight loss products,

This once again promotes economic growth.

However, if we follow the businessman’s concept of capitalism, all profits should be reinvested in production instead of wasted. In this way, how can the concept of consumerism and the morality of capitalism coexist? It’s actually very simple, just like the past

The same era, today there is also a division of labor between elites and the general public. For example, we have repeatedly mentioned in our book that in medieval Europe, the nobles and high-ranking officials were extravagant and extravagant. Then we start from another

One understanding is that they spend a lot of money and show luxury, while the peasants are frugal, but they still don't have enough to eat and don't have enough clothes to cover their bodies.

Our modern situation today seems to be just the opposite. Those who are rich are very cautious when investing in assets. On the contrary, those who are not very rich buy cars, televisions, and even mobile phones that are not necessary.

At that time, I was completely merciless, even selling my kidney to buy this kind of electronic product! How can I say this? In fact, it really happened. I saw it on the news before. Don’t think I’m talking nonsense. Anyway

Those who are really rich will not buy things that they don't seem to need at all, probably because most people in China are like this.

So the concepts of capitalism and consumerism can be said to be two sides of the same coin, and capital and consumerism ethics combine these two orders into one. The highest guideline for ordinary wealthy people is investment!

The supreme guideline for those of us who have no money at all is, buy!

In fact, this concept of capital and consumerism has another revolutionary significance. The past conceptual system of our human world often required humans to do things that were as difficult as climbing to the sky, and told them that if they did it, they could reach the sky. But the total requirement

They are compassionate, tolerant, overcome all kinds of desires and anger, and have to put aside their own selfish interests. This is actually too difficult for most of us. Therefore, if we look at the history of our human moral concepts, we will also see that

There are many very beautiful ideals, but I am very sorry to tell you that almost no one has ever achieved them. For example, most Christians in Western countries do not act like Christians at all, they are more like devils.

Then there are the majority of Buddhist believers. They have not listened to the words of the Buddha at all. They are still living in debauchery and extravagance! Even if you talk about something about China, most of the Confucian disciples may make Confucius shake his head frequently.

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But our modern situation is completely different today. Most people can easily achieve the wishes of capitalists, which is the ideal of consumerism. In fact, if we humans want to enter the paradise promised by this new concept, the condition is that we have

Rich people should continue to be greedy and crazy and invest their time in how to make more money. As for the general public, they should satisfy their desires and passions, such as buying whatever they want.

.This is also the first time in the entire history of our humanity that believers can finally meet the conditions required by religion! Why do we say this? In fact, we use capitalism as a metaphor for a religious structure, and there is only one doctrine given to us.

, that is, buy whatever you want! And all of us Capitalists have completely fulfilled this sole teaching! Isn’t this really an exaggeration? So this is also the most successful one in the entire history of our humanity.

Religion! But how do we know what the paradise that religion promises us will look like? In fact, it is very simple. The answer is: watch TV and watch product advertisements, and you will know.

Okay, this is the end of the discussion of our modern things, but why did I suddenly insert this paragraph into the previous chapter? In fact, the reason is that this book is really about to end, and I planned to end it with a million words.

So I'm afraid that the previous question will have a negative reaction from some organizations and shut me up, so I can only insert it into the above chapters. It seems to have a certain impact on the ordering of the chapters.

However, the overall concept of my entire book is to use a method of hiding trees in the forest. I also hope that everyone can see the overall appearance of the world in my thoughts. Now we are going to return to the overall picture, still starting from the historical aspect.

, Anyway, no matter what I do, I still have to write this book into a million words, and I can't express opinions. I also try to restrain myself from expressing any opinions. For example, in the whole book, our China's development

It has also had a lot of impact on the entire world situation, but I rarely mention it. You may have noticed this.

Now let’s continue history and talk about the “Manifesto of the Communist Party”:

Let's still start from the beginning. With the vigorous development of the European labor movement, an idea that represents the interests of workers and scientifically guides workers to fight for liberation has emerged, because workers are really suffering and they really have no need to live.

They are not like humans or ghosts. The source of this idea is the scientific socialism founded by Marx and Engels.

One day in the spring of 1847, a young man came to No. 5, Alliance Street, Brussels, the capital of Belgium. He looked at the house number carefully, arranged his clothes, walked forward, and knocked gently on the door.

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After a while, a bearded man opened the door. He saw a stranger standing outside the door, so he asked him: Who are you looking for? In fact, this bearded man was Marx.

The man outside the door immediately replied: Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Moore. I am entrusted by the Alliance of the Righteous to come to visit you.

Marx spoke very warmly: Oh, welcome, come in quickly.

There were actually many workers' groups and socialist groups in Europe at this time. The League of the Just was an international organization with greater influence among these groups and groups, with members in various countries in Europe. Moore was actually the leader of the League of the Just.

One of the people.

After More entered Marx's room and sat down, he opened his wallet, took out a letter, and then said to Marx: Mr. Marx, this is a letter of authorization signed by all the leaders of our League of Justice. I would like to ask you to

and Mr. Engels write a manifesto for us.

In the summer of 1847, the League of Justice held its first congress in London, England. Engels attended the meeting, but Marx was unable to attend the meeting due to financial reasons, that is, he had no money! The congress was based on the ideas of Engels and Marx

It was proposed that the League of the Just be changed into the Communist League, and the original slogan "All men are brothers" be changed to: Workers of the world unite. Engels drafted a new "Charter" for the League. The first article of the new "Charter" is

It clearly stipulates that the purpose of the Communist Alliance is to overthrow the upper echelons of the bourgeoisie, establish the dictatorship of the proletariat, eliminate the old bourgeois society of class antagonism, and establish a new society without classes and private ownership. From this moment on, a

A new proletarian party, the Communist League, was born!

In order to avoid the persecution of the reactionary bourgeoisie, the activities of the League of Justice were carried out underground. After the establishment of the Communist League, it began to vigorously propagandize among workers to expand its influence. Marx and Engels in Brussels, the capital of Belgium

A workers' education association was organized, and the "Deutsche Brussels Zeitung" was used as a propaganda front for the Communist League to spread communist ideas and educate the broad masses of workers and the masses.

By the end of 1847, the Communist League held its second congress in London. At the congress, the delegates felt that a program should be written in the form of a manifesto. After the congress, Marx and Engels were entrusted by the delegates to

After intense work, they co-wrote the "Communist Manifesto".

In the "Communist Manifesto", first, Marx and Engels used the scientific theory of dialectical materialism to elaborate on the scientific conclusion that capitalism will perish and communism will win, and pointed out that production relations must adapt to the objective laws of productivity.

Second, the great mission of the proletariat is to overthrow capitalism and establish socialism and republicanism. The proletariat is the gravedigger of capitalism. Third, the Communist Party is the vanguard of the proletariat. Without the leadership of the Communist Party, the proletariat cannot

Victory. Fourth, he criticized all kinds of false socialism and false communism. At the end of the "Communist Manifesto", Marx and Engels declared to the world in a heroic tone: Let the ruling class join the Communist Party
Chapter completed!