A few days later, Aric appears in the palace of Valeria, meeting King Brutus.
"Oh King Aric, it has been some time since we have not met. When was the last time we met? I think it was the meeting in the temple. Well let's go straight to the point, what problem have you encountered today? I heard that some serious things are going on in Karakum."
"We are here to learn Valeria's advanced experience..."
"Oh my god, hope that god will forgive me. The King of Karak, King Aric was here to learn about Valeria's advanced experience, again hoping that there was not some joke from god. Well, let me see what I can help you with."
Facing his ridicule, Eric's face turned pale, but he still answered.
"Karak need a total reform! What happened before was just a purge against those traitors. Let me tell you, the whole Karak has been completely infiltrated by the Soviet KGB, from the peasants, soldiers, and even some nobles. I doubt who will still fight for the Karak if the Soviets invade us."
Listened to Aric words, Brutus' face which was originally a little playful immediately became serious.
"You are talking about the Soviet's infiltration, glad that you realize the real threat from the USSR. To be honest, thanks to your intel shared with us, we only realised that Valeria had entered the industrial era. But I also have to admit that the Soviet's infiltration is hard to deal with."
"Like I said, Valeria is in the industrial era, we have a lot of workers. The Soviet's ideology infiltrations on these workers are deadly, they always go on strike just to ask for higher wages, better benefits, and the environment or whatever. Especially since they were able to organize a union, I was having a headache dealing with them."
Aric heard that Valeria experienced some similar problem and was excited, at least there is a sample here for them to know what to do.
"How do you deal with them?" He asked.
"Well, to be honest, the only way is just to compromise at the biggest limit. Again thanks to the history book that you send me from the USSR. I have done some research on how the other communist regimes in their original world failed. And I came out with a conclusion, treat your people like human beings, and in the end, these commie will just automatically fight with each other. They will collapse from internal, and by that time, just need to publicize its horror, and most people will stand on our side."
Aric was very blurred about Brutus' statement, he does read some history of the USSR but never came to such a conclusion.
"I don't understand, how good should we treat our people to be considered good, and what do you mean they will just fight internally in the end."
"Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. Someone said this in their original world. Before that you should know about the concept of left-wing such as USSR socialism and communism. On the opposite, it is right-wing such as us, we are right-wing, they called monarchism, for Valeria, we are also capitalism."
"In left-wing they focus more on greater equality and worker rights, usually change through revolution or systemic reform. For right-wing, we have hierarchy and order, tradition, religion, nationalism, resistance to rapid change."
"Here I will tell you why these commies will collapse themselves internally, in right-wing, no matter how much I have said, capitalism or monarchism, we have only one target, we want to maximize our interest. Businessmen want to earn more profit, the King wants to have more wealth, taxes, land, and power. We always want to gain more."
"But for the left wing, despite in theory they only have one target which is for the people, perhaps I think it is difficult for them to define who is people. Farmers and workers are people, but how about rich and poor farmers, which of them prioritize first? How about workers who work in factories and workers who work using brains, such as more importantly engineers? Work with the body or work with the brain. Of course in theory proletariat or working class which includes both manual and intellectual labour is the core. But in actuality, it just doesn't go like it."
"The problem of these commies is that all of them came out with their theory, thinking that their way is the best way to apply to achieve communism and socialism. If they are struggling with a regime that is not treating their people as human beings, they can unite together to fight, because everyone knows that it's definitely not the current way."
"However, once it does not go well and the people are having a good life and supporting the communist party, the commie will just start fighting with each other stating their theory is the correct way for the people. Thus, in the end, power struggles in the party happen, they start killing each other before the enemies do."
"If right-wing are having a power struggle, no matter who earns the power, the final target is all the same, land, wealth, power and others. For people, it is just the same thing but operating by different people. But for them, different people with different crazy theories are horrible, if the first leader tries to apply his theory but fails, then he will be replaced, and the second will also have his theory, no one knows whether it works until the whole party collapses."
King Aric only feels that his brain is stuck together, he has absolutely zero understanding of Brutus' words except for the left and right wings, and also treats his people like human beings.
"Just be easy, what should I and the Karak do to prevent the potential communist uprising?"
Brutus sees that Aric seems to not understand what he said after talking so much, giving a contemptuous face.
"Nah, should have known that you are not smart enough like me to understand these concepts. Serfdom, your kingdom is still having serfdom, and you should cancel it, else the uprising will start from these farmers, and they will be everywhere. Cancel it, liberate the serf first, this is the first step you have to do."
Serfdom, Aric muttered to himself.