Make France Great Again

I vaguely remember that it was May 2, 1848. The content of "The Times" was like a clarion call to ignite the fighting spirit of us (the Chartists) who had already been silenced. A recap of the "spectacular" a year ago, but sadly, the perpetrator of all this was not a real proletarian, not even a democrat/republican, all he did was to achieve A tool of his personal ambition.

— Harney, The North Star and Me

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In the early morning of May 2, the "North Star" newspaper, which is the headquarters of Chartist public opinion and also an advocate of the labor movement, was gearing up to prepare the "ammunition" for the next round of charge. The Chartist movement in 1847 united all the Chartists throughout Britain They formed a group and submitted a letter to the government in April this year. However, a month later, the coalition government still did not take any action. respond. [Note 1] (Lord Palmerston does not think it is the credit of the voters)

The Chartists can no longer bear the government's arrogant silence as a confrontational gesture, and they are preparing to teach the government a "lesson" in the near future to let them know the strength of the workers.

At this time, Hani, the editor-in-chief of the "North Star Newspaper", was sitting in the office, holding a dipped pen in his hand, thinking about the next content. The white draft paper under his arm was full of traces of alterations.

After thinking for a long time, the editor-in-chief Hani frowned. He lowered his head and reviewed the content he had written before, but found that most of the content he wrote before was clichéd content. Just wishful thinking.

The more editor Hani thought about it, the more upset he felt. The more he looked at the unfinished manuscript, the more he felt uncomfortable. Feeling restless, he simply crumpled up the white draft paper under his arm and threw it on the ground. Returning to the original position, he pressed his head tightly with his hands like holding a basketball, his eyes fixed on the rosewood carved desk, and his mouth made a "creaking" grinding sound.

The writing of the article obviously caused great annoyance to Editor-in-Chief Harney.

The annoyance of not being able to write a manuscript lasted for a long time, until a hasty knock on the door from outside the office pulled Editor-in-Chief Harney out of his annoyance.

"Please come in!" Editor-in-Chief Hani slightly adjusted his movements, moved his hands away from his head and clenched them on the desk, and his eyes changed from resentment to softness.

Don't bring your personal negative emotions to other members, especially subordinates. This is a "truth" that editor-in-chief Harney learned after serving as the editor-in-chief of the North Star.

The office door opened, and a reporter walked towards Hani with a newspaper in his hand and said, "Editor Hani, look at this!"

When the reporter came to Hani, Hani realized that the reporter was holding the "Times" newspaper. The newspaper exuded a faint scent of ink, and it seemed that it had just been printed.

The reporter spread the "Times" newspaper on the table, pointed to the headline on the front page of the "Times" newspaper, panted heavily and said to Hani impatiently: "Editor-in-Chief, read this article!"

"From Bonaparte to Bonaparte...? What kind of title is this!" Hani, who read the title for the first time, read out the content of the title word by word, with a little doubt in his eyes, as if he was asking the reporter what else thing.

"Editor-in-chief, keep reading! After reading it, you will understand everything!" The reporter impatiently continued to urge Hani to continue reading.

Hani let go of the doubts in his heart for the time being, and read line by line.

Because of the word count and typesetting of the article, Hani read the entire article in less than 3 minutes.

After reading the article, Hani felt like a storm in his heart. "Equality", "freedom", "democracy", and "universal suffrage", this article said everything they wanted to say.

In the final analysis, the Chartists in the 19th century were not a revolutionary party. They carried the imprint of bourgeois reform from the day they were born, and they did not have the desire to overthrow the government and realize a democratic dictatorship. Instead, they ran around with freedom and equality. Now they have not Realize that the so-called freedom, equality and equality in my mouth is just a phantom that can be broken with a poke.

Although some of the comments on Louis Napoleon in the article are somewhat inappropriate, the so-called "Bonaparte ideas" in the article succinctly point out what Britain needs.

[Haney once met Louis Napoleon in a certain club, and still has some impressions of Louis Napoleon]

"Who is the author of this article?" Hani eagerly wanted to know the answer.

"I don't know!" the reporter pointed to the blank space on the byline column of "The Times" and said to Harney: "It seems that the writer doesn't want to reveal his name!"

"Cut this newspaper! Cut it out and give it to Mr. Karl Marx and Mr. Friedrich Engels. I think you should know their addresses!" Hani said to the reporter with excitement.

[As early as the Chartist Movement in 1847, the Chartists had already known Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. At the height of the Chartist Movement, Engels was also invited by the Polaris to serve as a member of the bourgeois radical party. 】

"I see!" The reporter, who was equally full of admiration and longing for Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, immediately agreed to Haney's order.

After Hani explained a few innocuous matters to the reporter, the reporter left, and Hani, full of ideas, picked up a pen to write again.

This time he is going to write "On Bonaparte Thought and the British Democratization Movement"

"Yesterday, a great fighter for freedom and equality passed away. He brought us... The British government should not continue to ignore it. As Louis Napoleon said, what a government needs is to establish a people's equal rights choice... "

This time, Harney, uncharacteristically, no longer used false freedom and equality as the keynote. Instead, he used the tone of Louis Napoleon to criticize the existing British system from the perspective of universal suffrage and responsible government.

The eloquent 3,000-character article is extremely spicy.

After writing all this, Haney reviewed the manuscript again and sealed it up.

PS: 1. In the elections of 1847, Mr. Harney, editor-in-chief of the "North Star", was elected as the Chartist candidate for parliament by the Twelve district; this district also elected Lord Palmerston, the Foreign Secretary, to Parliament. But when Lord Palmerston called for a vote, Mr Harney, who won the primary by a show of hands, abstained from his candidacy.