No Savior in the One Piece World
Chapter 510

Nationalization

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The second agenda item

Leo was not actually proposing an agenda item.

He was plugging a loophole.

Sometimes, plugging loopholes was extremely important. Take a certain Big Brother from the past: it had failed to plug its loopholes—or rather, carrying on the Tsarist line's inherited tyranny, it was even more American than America. Though it flew the red flag and invoked the name of revolution, it did all manner of imperialist things, coercing neighboring countries, forcing other socialist states into its alliance camp, and using the name of the Communist International to act as an emperor and hegemon.

How could such a country ever win the people's hearts? How could it avoid falling apart?

The groupings Leo was arranging now were meant to let those who truly needed it receive the Revolutionary Army's nourishing rain, while allowing the countries and people who did not need them to breathe easy for the time being.

Revolution was not about forcibly delivering warmth. It was not the paternalistic insistence of "it's for your own good," nor the self-serving "it doesn't matter what you think; what matters is what I think." Still less was it some hypocritical doctrine that claimed to act for your benefit while sucking the marrow from your bones—something no one could fault morally even as the nation grew weaker and weaker.

What they brought was revolution, was reform. Their purest goal was to let ordinary people live better lives.

If what they brought ordinary people was disaster and an even more miserable life, then they would have no way to go among the masses and declare with full conviction, "We are here to liberate you."

Once they lost the moral high ground, the Revolutionary Army would be no different from the Navy.

To prevent that from happening, Leo had naturally

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