The working class has now spontaneously gravitated towards socialism, so in response, the capitalist class, the bourgeoisie, which is to say the billionaires, the class of people who are currently running the country, as well as their henchmen, which is to say their belly crawling boot lickers, have responded by mounting a furious attack on the great leaders of the working class, which of course includes Lenin and Stalin.
As members of the working class, we have been robbed of our history. I use the term working class in its broader sense, to include the proletarians and peasants around the world, as proletarians are the technical term for workers and peasants are the technical term for farmers. Whether proletarians or peasants, regardless of the country, we all have a common enemy, which is the imperialists, the monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, as that is their correct scientific term.
With that in mind, it is necessary to set the record straight, to delve into some history which many of my readers may find boring. Just bear in mind that knowledge is power, and one reason the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, are so powerful, is because they are so knowledgeable. To become aware of our history will help to erode their power, if only slightly. Every little bit helps. They certainly use the ignorance of our history against us.
In the nineteenth century, it was Marx and Engels who placed socialism on a scientific basis, so that now it is referred to as scientific socialism, which is most reasonable. We now refer to it as Marxism, and are careful to distinguish it from utopian socialism, which is the idealist concept of socialism, and is most unreasonable. This is to say that the various attempts to set up a socialist society, without the guidance of the revolutionary theories of Marx, have been a failure. That is a fact, and a most unpleasant fact it is, and it is also a fact that any further attempts to set up a socialist society will be doomed to failure, unless such a society is based on the theories of Marx. Those who are taking part in the revolution which is currently gaining strength in North America, as well as other parts of the world, would do well to bear that in mind.
As capitalism progressed, it advanced to its monopoly stage, as was predicted by Marx. This monopoly stage of capitalism, which is referred to as imperialism, has characteristics which are different from the earlier stage of capitalism, in which competition was predominant.
This latest and highest stage of capitalism was thoroughly analyzed by Lenin, and fully exposed in his excellent book, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. It is highly recommended for everyone, especially those who have recently ”woken up”, as they put it, are now no longer apathetic, but are concerned with the political situation.
Lenin was of course a citizen of Russia and a member of the middle class, a well educated man, a lawyer, an intellectual, a member of the intelligentsia, as is the correct scientific term. He could have chosen to live a life of relative comfort, working as an attorney, but chose instead to embrace the revolutionary theories of Marx. He was determined to force through changes in his country of birth, and he most certainly did.
At that time, Russia was an autocracy, which is to say that the country was ruled by a Czar, a man who had almost unlimited power. He used that power frequently, crushing anyone and everyone whom he considered to be a threat. He was aided in his rule by the rural landlords, those who crushed and exploited the peasants, and the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, those who crushed and exploited the workers, the proletarians.
This was an alliance of three classes, the nobility, the landlords, and the bourgeoisie, all of whom were completely reactionary. As opposed to them stood the workers, peasants, and the middle class. The workers form the most revolutionary class, while the poor peasants tend to follow the workers. The middle peasants and middle class people, which is to say the petty bourgeois, tend to vacillate, between the workers and the capitalists, and the rich peasants, the kulaks, tend to follow the bourgeoisie.
I mention the class makeup of the population, as that is the only way to understand that which is happening during a revolution. Here in North America, it is customary to deny the existence of classes, and we are on the edge of a revolution, in which different classes are about to engage in open warfare, so it is vitally important to stress this point.
As a Marxist, Lenin was well aware that it was necessary to first overthrow the Czar, as a means of establishing a democratic republic, so that people could at least have some democratic rights. He did not consider this an end in itself, but merely as the first step towards a socialist republic. He was also well aware that the movement for scientific socialism, which is to say socialism based on the revolutionary theories of Marx, develop separately from the working class movement. He determined to merge the two movements, to make the working class movement the movement for scientific socialism.
With that in mind, in 1898 Lenin and a few other middle class Marxist intellectuals came together and formed a political party, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, the RSDLP. The name of the party reflects the belief that those who fight for socialism also fight for democracy. That is just as true today as it was in 1898.
True to their belief, all of the earliest members of the RSDLP became involved with the working class, assisting them in their struggles, at the same time explaining to the workers the theories of Marx, of the necessity of revolution and the subsequent Dictatorship Of the Proletariat. They were making a supreme effort to merge the movement for scientific socialism with the working class movement. They did not get too far. Almost immediately, each and every member of the newly formed RSDLP were arrested and thrown in jail, and of course that included Lenin.
Lenin learned the hard way that it is not just people on the left, which is to say middle class intellectuals and aspiring working class revolutionaries, who read Marxist literature. People on the right, which is to say the billionaires, the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, and their henchmen, their belly crawling boot lickers, also read such Marxist literature. If anything, they read it more avidly. There is no doubt in their minds whatsoever that Marx was absolutely correct. But there is a big difference between believing in the correctness of the scientific theories of Marx and embracing those theories. No one has ever accused the capitalists of embracing the theories of Marx. To this day, a great many capitalists admit that Marx was right, that capitalism is progressing precisely the way in which Marx said it would. That merely drives home the point to them that Marxists are supremely dangerous, and should be suppressed with the utmost determination.
The capitalists are well aware that the key to a successful revolution involves raising the level of awareness of the working class to that of a Marxist, to make the members of the working class aware of themselves as a class, with interests which are diametrically opposed to those of the capitalist class. At the same time, they are equally determined to conceal this fact from the workers. The last thing any capitalist wants is for the workers to become aware that they are destined to overthrow the capitalists, through revolution, and establish the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat, crushing the bourgeoisie under the iron heel of the proletariat.
From the viewpoint of the capitalists, that is all the more reason to crush anyone who attempts to spread such subversive propaganda. That is the reason Lenin and the other Social Democrats were thrown into jail. From jail, Lenin was exiled to Siberia, and was eventually allowed to leave the country.
If the Russian authorities thought that was the end of Lenin, they were sadly mistaken. It merely strengthened his resolve. He needed all the resolve he could get, as it soon became clear that it was not just the Russian authorities with whom he had to fight. There were also members of the RSDLP who thought it necessary to revise the theories of Marx. They were determined to change the party to one of a liberal party for petty reforms. In this, they performed a very valuable service for the Russian capitalists, the bourgeoisie, as such reforms are completely acceptable to the bourgeoisie.
These revisionists were of the opinion that the theories of Marx were obsolete and had to be revised. They actually believed, and many still believe, that there is no need for a revolution, that the capitalists do not have to be overthrown. They think that under a democratic republic, it is merely necessary to elect socialist politicians into office and the capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, will become sweetly reasonable and hand over their wealth and power. As if that is about to happen!
Lenin pointed out the fallacy of this revisionist theory, which he called Economism, in his excellent book, What Is To Be Done? I highly recommend this book, as it is as relevant today as at the time it was first written. The only insignificant difference is that modern day revisionists tend to be rather shy, and prefer not to refer to themselves as revisionists.
Many of these current revisionists refer to themselves as Marxist-Leninists. They are able to speak in revolutionary terms, but are careful to make no mention of revolution or the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat. They do not want to offend their lords and masters, the capitalists, the bourgeoise, as that is one term which terrifies them. It is their worst nightmare. The idea of the working class revolting, overthrowing them and crushing them under the iron heel of the proletariat, keeps them awake nights. Their fears are well grounded.
But now to return to the situation in Czarist Russia, after the arrest of Lenin and all the other Social Democrats, the Russian authorities probably thought that would be the end of the working class movement. No doubt at the time, it seemed to be a reasonable assumption, as the working class was deprived of all their leaders. But even without leaders, the working class movement continued to grow and develop, until in January of 1905, it broke out into full scale revolution. This revolution raged for over two years, and the autocracy was shaken but not toppled. By the middle of 1907, the revolution died down and the Czar remained firmly in charge.
This Russian revolution of 1905 has gone down in history as the first Russian revolution. Even though it did not topple the Czar, it provided the people of Russia with a great deal of valuable experience. In much the same way, the various anti war movements, as well as the occupy movement, have provided the American workers with similar valuable experience. We can expect the veterans of those movements to make fine use of those lessons. Experience is a fine teacher. We learn so much more from our mistakes, our defeats.
After the first Russian revolution died down in 1907, the forces of reaction were in their glory. This is to say that the authorities, those who were avid supporters of the monarchy and the capitalists, were having a field day, imprisoning and hanging all and sundry. They took particular delight in hanging any and all Social Democrats, Marxists. This went on for several years, while the working class movement gradually once again built up strength. This finally boiled over in the second Russian revolution of February, 1917, in which the Czar was finally overthrown.
It was the fourth year of the great imperialist slaughter known as World War 1, and Russia was allied with Britain, France, Italy and America against the Central Power of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, which was essentially Turkey and its colonies. All of these countries were quite highly industrialized, hence the term ”great powers”, although Russia was no where near as highly industrialized as Germany or Britain. In fact, three quarters of the population of Russia was composed of peasants, so that of the roughly two hundred million people, perhaps one hundred fifty million people were peasants. From a military standpoint, the industrial output of the country was rather limited, but the exceptional population meant that the country could produce a great deal of ”cannon fodder”. It also meant that the leaders of the other industrial countries considered Russia a rather ”backward” country.
I do not like the term ”backward” country, as it sounds rather derogatory, and I think the term agrarian is more accurate, as the majority of the population was composed of peasants, but the term is deeply entrenched in literature, so I have chosen to stay with it. There is no point in fighting a battle I cannot possibly win.
As a result of this successful revolution, a bourgeois democratic republic was established, with the capitalists and landlords in charge. The working people then had some democratic rights, at least on paper. This second Russian revolution was the result of a rather strange coalition of proletarians, peasants and petty bourgeois, or middle class, against the nobility and the landlords. It is notable that all the peasants, rich and poor, came together, united in their hatred of the landlords. As soon as the Czar abdicated the throne, the alliance came to an end.
The democratic republic is the best possible political shell for capitalism, which helps to explain the reason that the bourgeoisie may have welcomed the revolution, or at least maintained a position of ”benevolent neutrality” towards the revolution. They had a great deal to gain from such a successful revolution, from the abdication of the Czar, and gain they did.
The fact that the workers and peasants were being exploited and degraded was not a factor in their decision to at least welcome the revolution, as the condition of the workers and peasants was of no concern to them. That is true to this day.
At the conclusion of the February revolution of 1917, with the nobility out of the way, the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, came to undisputed power. They established a democratic republic, led by Karensky. The working people and peasants had some democratic rights, if only on paper. That was very nice, but as they were the first to point out, it is not possible to eat democratic rights. The people in the cities were literally starving, and the rich peasants, referred to as kulaks, had grain but no way to get that grain to market. Besides, the more the people in the cities starved, the higher the price of grain. Kulaks are merely typical capitalists.
It should come as no great shock to anyone to learn that the first thing the capitalists did, once they had secured undisputed political power, was to break their promises. The peasants had been promised the land which was owned by the landlords, and the workers, peasants and soldiers had been promised an end to the war, in order to alleviate their suffering. Instead, the war continued and the landlords kept their land. The suffering of workers, soldiers and peasants continued at horrendous levels.
It was in this revolutionary state of turmoil that Lenin returned from exile in April of 1917. The Czar had been overthrown but the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, were in charge, and the exploitation and degradation of the Russian people was still in high gear. The German Kaiser allowed Lenin to pass through Germany, on a sealed train, but only because he knew that Lenin was the greatest enemy of the Czar and the newly created Karensky regime.
The Kaiser was not the only one to have such a high opinion of Lenin. The officials of the Karensky regime completely agreed that Lenin was indeed their greatest enemy, and promptly set out to murder him. As a result of this, Lenin, with the assistance of Stalin, escaped to Finland and prepared for the approaching revolution from a distance. It was in Finland that he wrote another masterpiece, State and Revolution. That book too is required reading for anyone interested in taking part in the approaching American revolution.
In great secrecy, Lenin returned to Saint Petersburg in October of 1917, as it was absolutely necessary to overthrow the corrupt Karensky regime. Karensky had decided to surrender Saint Petersburg to the Germans, in an attempt to forestall the Russian revolution. This was nothing less than an act of treason.
By that time, Lenin was well known to the imperialist leaders of the world, and much as they hated each other, were giving serious consideration to concluding the war, just so they could kill Lenin and crush the Russian revolution. They figured they could always go back to killing each other after they dealt with their common enemy. God forbid workers and peasants should get the idea that they could take control of their own lives!
They thought perhaps it would be best to first kill Lenin and crush the Russian revolution, and then return to the business of dividing and redividing the world. Their quest of ever greater profits, at the expense of course of the working people, could wait.
If nothing else, this should give workers an idea of just how much the billionaires, the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, hate and fear revolution and the subsequent Dictatorship Of the Proletariat. Their fears are well grounded.
On the evening of November 7, 1917, under the leadership of Lenin and the Social Democrats, in the two main Russian cities of Saint Petersburg and Moscow, the workers seized political power.
There is a lesson to be learned here, as the timing was critical. The insurrection was successful because it did not rely upon a conspiracy or upon a party, but it relied upon a class, in that case the working class. In terms of timing, it relied upon a revolutionary upsurge of the people. It was at a turning point in the revolution, when the movement of the most advanced workers was at its peak, and the vacillations within the ranks of the enemy was at its greatest. The greatest threat came from the Allies, as they could not decide between a war to a victorious finish or a separate peace directed against Russia. In addition, internally, the middle class Russian democrats were also vacillating, and in fact rejected a coalition with the counter revolutionary Constitutional Democrats, referred to as the Cadets. The enemies of the revolution, both internal and external, were vacillating.
At such a point in the revolution, not to mount an insurrection would have been a betrayal of the revolution. Such a revolution, civil war, is the sharpest form of the class struggle. It is that point in the class struggle when clashes turn into an armed struggle of one class against another. This happened in Russia in November, 1917, and will soon happen here. We had best be prepared.
The November Russian Revolution is of particular importance to us, because of all the revolutions which have happened throughout history, this revolution most closely resembles our own. Further, that first successful socialist revolution was led by Lenin, which drives home the point that his theories are correct. Since that time, capitalism has been restored in Russia, but that in no way diminishes the accomplishment.
I deliberately refer to the November Russian revolution as a separate revolution and not merely as a continuation of the February Russian revolution, as there were a separate set of classes involved. The February revolution was a bourgeois revolution, in that the autocracy was overthrown and the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, as well as the landlords, came to power. The November revolution was a socialist revolution in which the bourgeoise and the landlords were overthrown and the workers and poor peasants came to power. They established the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat, the worst nightmare of all capitalists.
It is important to consider history from a viewpoint of class struggle, if for no other reason than that we can best understand our own situation.
Immediately after the conclusion of the successful socialist November revolution, Lenin and the other Social Democrats, those whom at the time referred to themselves as Communists or Bolsheviks, took action which their class enemies found to be unforgivable. The secret treaties which the Czar had approved and the Karensky government had kept hidden, were made public. In addition, the new Soviet government, that of the revolutionary workers and peasants, proposed a just peace, a peace without annexations or indemnities, a peace which guaranteed equal rights to all nations – and it proposed that peace to all the belligerent countries.
The Anglo – French and American bourgeoisie refused to accept the proposal. In fact, they refused to even consider the proposal of peace. They betrayed the interests of all nations and prolonged the imperialist slaughter. They even accused the Soviet Union of negotiating a separate peace with the Central Powers and thereby betraying the cause of the Great War. They neglect to mention that the cause was one of profit.
It should be noted that Lenin and the Soviet high command had no choice in the matter. The Russian soldiers were worn out and demoralized from three and a half years of war. As they put it, they were ”drowning in blood”. They had reached the limit of their endurance. Even the Russian generals, including those who could not have been accused of being Marxists, admitted as much. The Russian army was spent. The only options were peace or assured defeat.
It was only the Central Powers who agreed to negotiate a peace treaty. They agreed to a cease fire and in mid December of 1917, met with the Soviet delegation, led by Trotsky, in the town of Brest-Litovsk. Trotsky was under orders to negotiate the best terms of peace that he could, to stall as long as possible, in order to give the country time to recover and rebuild. He was also ordered to accept any terms, as a last resort, in case the Central Powers issued an ultimatum. The ultimatum was issued and Trotsky refused the terms.
Trotsky had a better idea. He announced that Soviet Russia would demobilize the army and cease waging war. There would be neither victory nor defeat. The troops would merely ”stick their bayonets in the ground”.
The Central Power took a rather dim view of this ”better idea” of Trotsky, and to the surprise of no one, except perhaps Trotsky, resumed the offensive. The demoralized Russian army was in no state to resist, and fell back in disarray.
In response to this treachery of Trotsky, Lenin and the Soviet high command, which is to say the Central Committee of the Communist Party, once again sued the Central Powers for peace. Once again they met, and once again the Central Powers issued an ultimatum. The only difference was that the newest terms for peace were far more onerous that the initial terms for peace, which Trotsky had refused. The Central Powers demanded and received Poland, the Ukraine, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Georgia, as well as other territories, not to mention reparations which had to be paid over a great many years.
In effect, the Soviet Union lost about a third of the population, around half of their industry, perhaps ninety percent of their coal mines and oil fields, as well as much of their food growing area. Lenin accepted this because there was no choice in the matter. The only way in which the first socialist republic could be secured and built, was by first securing peace.
Our current situation in North America is similar to the situation in Russia immediately before the November revolution. At that time, the suffering of the members of the public, the common people, had reached appalling proportions. By common people I refer to working people as well as peasants. By contrast, the capitalists and landlords never had it better. They were living in the lap of luxury. Now in our situation, the peasants have been practically wiped out, along with the landlords, and the middle class, the petty bourgeois, have been severely depleted. The class conflict is thus simplified. The situation of the working class is also appalling, with most people merely scraping by, at best. Monopoly capitalism continues to grow ever more complete, strangling smaller capitalists, forcing these middle class people, the petty bourgeois, into the ranks of the proletariat. The current situation is just as revolutionary here and now, as it was in Russia in 1917.
If nothing else, this simplifies the class struggle. Now it is us against them, the workers against the capitalists, the proletarians against the bourgeoisie, the poor folks against the billionaires. That is just the way it is.
Our biggest problem now involves starting the revolution. In Russia, this was a relatively easy matter, as the Russian bourgeoise was not nearly as well organized as the bourgeoisie in other countries. Without the advantage of easy plunder, they were unable to bribe the upper stratum of workers. As a result of this, the whole of the working class of Russia was able to rally around Lenin and the Marxists in their class struggle against the capitalists.
That is one problem the American bourgeoisie do not have. They are well organized, and have been able to extort vast sums from all and sundry, which has enabled them to bribe a great many leaders of the working class, especially union leaders. For that matter, the same is true of all highly industrialized countries, as the working people of those countries can testify, if only from bitter experience.
As a result of this, the Russian November revolution was easier to start, but far more difficult to continue, as it was primarily a petty bourgeois country, which is to say a middle class country. This may sound strange, but the fact of the matter is that every peasant is a small time capitalist. Every peasant wants to own the land he tills and the land of his next door neighbour. This is simply characteristic of peasants, but this does not make the peasant, or at least the poor peasant, the enemy. In fact, the poor peasants are the natural allies of the working class, the proletariat, and must be treated as such. The November revolution was led by the working class, in alliance with the poor peasants.
By contrast, the approaching American revolution will be far more difficult to start, due to the fact that many of the working class leaders have been bribed, and to the fact that the bourgeois propaganda is far more intense. On the other hand, once the revolution begins in America, it will be far easier to continue, if only because almost all of the peasantry and most of the middle class have been wiped out. No doubt, it will also spread to many other industrialized countries of the world. This is the reason the American revolution is of such vital importance. The American working class, led by American working women, are in the vanguard of the world wide revolutionary movement for scientific socialism.
Now the immediate problem is one of starting the American revolution. Although more difficult, the solution is the same. We have got to face the fact that the working class is not aware of itself as a class. This awareness must be brought to it by an outside source, and that outside source is of course the middle class. The well educated middle class intellectuals must become involved with the struggles of the working class and explain to the workers, in language they can understand, that the interests of the workers, and the interests of the capitalists, the billionaires, are diametrically opposed.
This is perhaps not as difficult as it may sound, as a great many middle class people have joined the working class, of necessity. Middle class people, intellectual or not, are aware of themselves as a class, and bring that class awareness with them. As the capitalist monopolies increase their strangle hold in all areas of business, ever more middle class people, owners of small businesses, are being forced into bankruptcy. They have no choice but to join the working class, like it or not. Rest assured, most of them do not like it. In addition, modern technology has equipped the working class with digital equipment, that which I refer to as computers, although my grandchildren would disagree with me. Call these digital devices what you will, they are information sources which are a very valuable tool. Marxist literature is readily accessible with these devices.
That being stated, it is also a fact that there is a great deal of literature on the internet which is counter revolutionary. Just as at the time of Lenin, there are a great many people who claim to be Marxist-Leninists, but have distorted the theories of both Marx and Lenin. These are the people who are determined to divert the revolutionary movement of the working class onto a harmless path of social reform. Lenin referred to these people as Economists or Mensheviks, and there is no shortage of such people. The true Marxist-Leninists advocate for revolution and the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat, which is absolutely unacceptable to the billionaires, the bourgeoisie.
As for those who think this is a minor problem, bear in mind that our revolution is rapidly approaching. It has one chance and one chance only of being successful. That one chance involves adopting the correct revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. The experience of all previous revolutions, however bitter, leaves no room for doubt on that point.
This puts in perspective the importance of the fact that the current American revolutionary movement is being led by women. There are very few American working class leaders who are women, and even fewer have accepted bribes from the capitalists. It is also a fact that women are far less likely to be deceived by the propaganda the American capitalists are constantly spitting out. It is the nature of women that they tend to be a bit more suspicious. Their condition of life forces this upon them.
Even though America is a most democratic country, women are still placed in a position of inequality. Granted there are laws emancipating women, placing them on a par with men, at least on paper. The fact remains that the vast majority continue to remain domestic slaves, because petty housework crushes and degrades women, chains her to the kitchen and nursery, where she slaves away in petty, crushing drudgery. The real emancipation of women will begin only where and when an all out struggle begins against this petty housekeeping. This can only happen after the proletariat, the working class, overthrows the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, through revolution, and establishes the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat.
Under that dictatorship, that of the proletariat, this petty housekeeping will be transformed through the use of public nurseries and kindergartens, which will not be run for profit, but for the common welfare. Women will be freed from the drudgery of housework, allowed to take part in the socialist economy. This can and will happen, but only under the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat. The capitalists have no interest in such nonsense.
It may be objected that there are a few women who have risen in the world, becoming successful, as indeed they have. Many of them have achieved great success in the field of entertainment, which is to say they are famous in television and movies. All too many have found there is a price to be paid for this, in the form of sexual assault. The understanding is that if they resist, their careers will be ruined. Of course the purpose of this sexual assault is to establish control over these women. It is just another form of degradation.
Many of these women are now coming forward as part of the Me Too movement. The point must be driven home to these women that there will be no significant change under capitalism. The only way in which the status of women will be changed is under socialism, the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat, and that can happen only through revolution.
We can expect the ruling class, the capitalists, the billionaires, to attempt to frighten us with cries of ”rivers of blood” which will be shed in the revolution. No doubt blood will be shed, but that is the only way to secure an end to the wars of which the imperialists are so fond. There is a price to be paid for peace, for working people to be fed and housed properly, for jobs which pay well, an end to unemployment and under employment, an end to homelessness, of senseless shootings, of gang warfare, child pornography, of girls being lured into the country under the promise of jobs, and then sold into sex slavery or forced to work in sweat shops. I could go on, but I am sure the reader gets the idea. So to the bootlickers of the billionaires who cry ”rivers of blood”, I can only respond that there is a price to be paid, in order to destroy that which capital has created. There are more than a few people who are prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to leave our children a much better world.
As for those who think that I am exaggerating, may I mention that recently, in the city of Chicago, on merely one day, forty four people were shot. The gangs now roam at will, killing any and all and the police are powerless to prevent this. Very soon the people will rise up, as part of the revolution, and establish law. This will not be a bourgeois law, but a proletarian law, and the gangsters and the bleeding heart liberals will be dead set opposed to this. We can expect these gangsters, those who have been exploiting and terrorizing people all their lives, to be grabbed by the revolutionaries and summarily executed. We can also expect the bleeding heart liberals to complain that these people, these cold blooded killers, rapists, child molesters, pimps, pornographers, scum of the earth, one and all, have been deprived of due process. In fact, they will soon be processed by the working class, and that same working class will soon set up a new constitution, a constitution of the working class, by the working class, for the working class.
This is all part of setting up the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat, and the transition period will be wonderful, if not pretty. It will be every bit as unpleasant as the capitalists want it to be. The sooner they submit to that dictatorship the easier it will be for them. The only way in which this dictatorship can happen is by having the working class people rise up, overthrow the people who have been exploiting and crushing them all their lives. The emancipation of the working class has to be, and will be, an act of the working class. Those who oppose the revolution can expect, at best, public humiliation, just as in the first American revolution, in which the class enemies of the working people were tarred and feathered.
In a time of revolution, people resort to measures which are not normally considered appropriate. This is the only way in which working people can overthrow their class enemies, the bourgeoisie, and establish the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat.
This much better world is a world of socialism, one in which those who have created this nightmare world will be suppressed, crushed under the iron heel of the working class, the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat. Those people, the monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, will have no rights, will be forced to earn their living, to earn an honest days pay. If they do not work, they will not eat. Their choice.
We currently live on the eve of the great proletarian socialist revolution, a revolution which will sweep the world, starting with the most industrialized countries. It is a great opportunity and calls for great sacrifice and great effort on our part. The great revolutionaries of the past have left us this heritage. Now it is up to us to carry on in their footsteps.
With that in mind, I can only suggest flooding the posters, banners and internet with the revolutionary messages, starting with:
Dictatorship Of the Proletariat!
Workers Of the World, Unite!
Scientific Socialism!
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 