For the third year in a row, women are once again marching in Washington and around the world. Apparently, the day of January 20, 2017, the day Donald Trump took the oath of office to become president of the United States, is now a day of mourning, at least for so many women of the world.
The first march of 2017 was largely spontaneous, and the turnout was huge, with millions marching around the world. Most of the people taking part in those marches were women, and most of those women were wearing pink knitted hats, referred to as ”pussy hats”, for reasons which I will not elaborate. Let us just say that it is a none too subtle reference to the male chauvinist sentiments expressed by Trump.
The latest march, that of January 2019, was far less impressive. There have been suggestions of anti semitism within the organization. Numerous local groups have disbanded or are working with varying degrees of activity. Others hold ”activism fairs and town halls engaging in electoral work”.
According to their Mission Statement of Women’s March, it is to ”harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change…committed to dismantling the system of oppression through non violent resistance”.
There are various pacifist religious groups which could most emphatically agree with this. It is not clear whether this organization is vying for membership in the Democratic party or the Peace Corp.
The goal of the annual marches is to ”advocate legislation and policies regarding human rights and other issues, including women’s rights, immigration reform, reproductive rights, the environment, LGBTQ rights, racial inequality, freedom of religion, workers rights and tolerance”.
Then there is the Power to the Polls rally, which aims to ”launch a national voter registration and mobilization tour. The goal is to register more women to vote, and to elect more women and progressive candidates to office”.
Such starry eyed optimism is deeply touching. Faced with this sort of tender sentimental persuasion, no doubt the imperialists will shed tears of remorse and mend their ways. Ha!
It should be noted that each and every one of these statements is absolutely acceptable to the bourgeoisie. There is nothing revolutionary here, no threat to their power. Their class is in power and they fully intend to remain in power. We live under the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, and it is clear that the people who are in charge of these organizations find that quite acceptable.
Without doubt there are a great many people who took part in the marches of 2017 and are now disenchanted with the organization, as it is now little more than an appendage of the Democratic Party. They very likely feel betrayed. We must reach out to these people and offer them an alternative to imperialism, which is the highest stage of capitalism. Such people can well assist us in setting up a Communist Party, based on the revolutionary doctrine of Marx and Lenin, including the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat.
We must stress to such people that no change of faces, no matter how sincere, whether in the Senate, House of Representatives, White House, any state or local government agency, will change the fact that the bourgeoisie are in charge and fully intend to remain in charge.
It is clear that the original march of 2017 was quite spontaneous, predominantly female and left leaning. Since that time several of the lead organizers have created a Women’s March Inc., which is to say they have created a corporation. If there is one thing for which people on the left have absolutely no use, it is a corporation. By the same token, if there is one thing for which capitalists have absolutely no use, it is a Communist and the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat.
As I have maintained for quite some time now, it is clear that the Americans are in the vanguard of the world revolutionary working class movement, and in particular by American women. It is also clear that the capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, agree with that assessment. They have therefore decided to hijack the current women’s revolutionary movement and bring it under the wing of the capitalists, to divert that revolutionary movement onto some harmless path of social reform.
Not only have they decided to hijack the movement, they have also decided to make some money off of it. That is the reason for the creation of a corporation. So now women can pay for the honour and privilege of marching for and demanding social reform. No doubt they expect all local groups to contribute to their cause, which includes making a profit, as that is the reason for the existence of a corporation.
Among the people who have been taking part in that movement, there are many well meaning individuals. They are trying to get some of their own people elected to office, and to an extent, are succeeding. The best these elected leaders can hope to achieve is a few paltry reforms. American workers are not satisfied with this and demand more. They are demanding political power, and that can only be achieved through the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat. It is worth noting that such a dictatorship is the worst nightmare of every billionaire.
There are various splinter groups which have broken off from the original organization. I am sure Communists can support at least some of these groups, even encouraging people to vote for the candidates they put forward, while at the same time expressing our scientific belief that the only real way forward is through revolution and the subsequent Dictatorship Of the Proletariat. Assuming the best case scenario, sincere candidates will run for office, be elected, and be unable to enact any meaningful change. In this way working people will be convinced, through their own experience.
At the same time that we support these candidates for office, we must make it clear that it is a class struggle, the working class, the proletariat, against the capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie. It is not a gender struggle, as to replace male capitalists with female capitalists will achieve nothing. If anything, female capitalists tend to be more cunning.
Just as the female demonstrators tend to wear pink ”pussy hats”, we can suggest the males wear red neck scarves, so as to be identified with the revolution. It would be even better if everyone wore red, so as to let the capitalists know that the workers are united, men and women, in a common goal of revolution and the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat.
These are mere suggestions, and it remains to be seen if working people choose to take such advice.
In this way, the revolutionary motion of 2017 will flare up once again, but this time finer and stronger. We will know we are getting our message through to the working class when the banners proclaim:
Workers of the World, Unite!
Scientific Socialism!
Dictatorship of the Proletariat!
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 