In 1917, the great Marxist proletarian leader, V.I. Lenin, led the first proletarian socialist revolution to victory, in the country of Russia, against all the odds. Among the so called ”great powers”, Russia was considered rather backward, with not a great deal of industry, and in fact most of the population was composed of peasants. The Russian empire was ruled by Czar Nicholas, a monarch who had almost unlimited power and was completely reactionary. The fact that this completely reactionary empire was overthrown and replaced by a socialist republic is most impressive.
First the Czar was overthrown in February of 1917, as the result of a spontaneous uprising of the workers and peasants. The capitalists, the Russian bourgeoisie, saw the opportunity to seize undisputed political power and wasted no time taking control of all the most important government posts. To represent the workers and peasants, a Constituent Assembly was established, but in name only. Elections to the Constituent Assembly were delayed until the end of the war. This is politely referred to as a democratic republic, which is the ideal political shell for capitalism.
Lenin explained this quite clearly in his excellent book, State and Revolution. In fact, he left no room for any misunderstanding: ”A democratic republic is the best possible political shell for capitalism and therefore, once capital has gained possession of this very best shell…it establishes its power so securely, so firmly, that no change, either of persons, of institutions, or of parties in the bourgeois-democratic republic, can shake it.” (italics by Lenin)
It was only in the spring of 1917 that Lenin was able to return to Russia, as he had been exiled years earlier. This is not to say that Lenin was safe, as he most certainly was not. If anything, it was even more dangerous for Lenin as the supporters of the Czar and the members of the new democratic republic, which came to be known as the Karensky regime, were determined to kill Lenin.
That in no way changed the fact that the revolution was taking place and Lenin was the leader of the workers and peasants, the working people of Russia. As their leader, he belonged in Russia, regardless of the risk to his own life.
Once back in Russia, it was Stalin who assisted in hiding Lenin from his enemies. Then, as leader of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, the RSDLP, he and the other members of the Party, that which was soon to become known as the Communist Party, planned a course of action.
There were a great many people, including those who claimed to be Marxists, who thought that the country of Russia would have to first go through a rather long period of capitalist development before attempting a proper socialist revolution. These people, loyal servants of the bourgeoisie, one and all, were dead set against carrying the revolution through to its socialist conclusion, which is to say the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat. They claimed that the workers were not prepared to seize political power.
Of course there is some truth to this, as the ruling class, the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, make every effort to ensure that the workers are never prepared to seize power! That is true to this day, and if we were to wait until the workers are prepared to seize political power, the revolution would never happen. No doubt that is the whole idea.
Lenin argued that the revolution was ongoing, the Czar had been overthrown and that was the first step towards a socialist republic, but only the first step. The next step was to overthrow the capitalists, those whom had stepped into the vacuum created by the abdication of the Czar, and seized political power. In November of that year, the working people of Russia, led by Lenin and the Communists, stormed the winter palace of the Czar and overthrew the bourgeoisie. The Russian empire was demolished, broken up into various independent socialist republics, which came together to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as the Soviet Union.
For several years it was not clear that the newly created socialist republic, the first in the world, would succeed. It was not until the spring of the following year, 1918, that the Soviet Union was able to secure peace with Germany and the Central Powers, and that peace came at a very high price. The counter revolutionaries, those who are currently referred to as contras but at that time were referred to as ”whites”, were determined to restore the monarchy and give the factories and land back to the capitalists and landlords. This resulted in a rather lengthy civil war. Even after the First World War ended in November of 1918, the civil war continued.
The capitalists of Britain, France and America were determined to crush the first socialist workers republic. With that in mind, they armed and equipped a great many troops, members of several republics in eastern Europe, those which were in a position to attack the Soviet Union. The fate of the first socialist republic hung by a thread. At one point, three quarters of the country was in the hands of the whites. Under the leadership of Lenin, the Soviet Union was gradually able to beat back the insurgents. It was not until 1922 that the country was at all secure.
Then tragedy struck as Lenin was shot and died in 1924. The working people of the world were deprived of their greatest leader, but his legacy lives on in his writings.
It was Stalin who took over as leader of the Soviet Union until his death in 1953. During that time, he managed to convert the Soviet Union into a rather highly industrialized country. He was well aware that it was just a matter of time before the neighbouring capitalist countries would again invade. At that time, as now, they are not about to allow a socialist republic, a workers republic, to live in peace. As Stalin phrased it, the country had to accomplish in ten years that which it took the capitalist countries one hundred years to accomplish. It is a testament to the leadership of Stalin and the Communist Party that the country managed just that.
Sure enough, in June of 1941 the Soviet Union was attacked by the Nazis. The countries of Germany, Italy, Rumania, Slovenia, Hungary and Finland launched a ferocious assault, the largest land based invasion in history. At first, the Soviet forces were reeling, and had to adopt a policy of an orderly retreat. The Soviet high command ordered that all stockpiles of supplies, which included food, ammunition and live stock, was to be sent to the rear. Anything which could not be sent to the rear was to be destroyed. All buildings were to be burnt or blown, as were all bridges. Nothing was to be left behind which could be of service to the enemy. The military refers to this as a scorched earth policy.
In addition to this, most of the factories in the western part of the country, that which was being invaded, were dismantled early in the war and sent across the Ural Mountains, to be reassembled and put to work. The Soviet high command was determined that these factories would not fall into the hands of the invading armies. Besides, across the mountains they were safe from enemy bombing.
The Soviet high command was sacrificing land for time. The country was vast and as the Nazi invaders advanced, their supply lines became stretched ever longer. Time was on the side of the Soviets, as their great ally, the severe Russian winter, was on the way. Of course it arrived in early December and at that point, with the temperatures hovering in the range of forty degrees below zero, the Soviets counter attacked. The Soviet troops were accustomed to the cold and were outfitted with winter clothing. The Soviet machinery was also prepared for winter. The invading armies, by contrast, were totally unprepared.
It is facts such as these which are hard to glean from the mountains of lies and distortions which are spat out by the capitalist press. They would have us believe that at the start of the invasion, the Soviets had more tanks and armoured vehicles than the rest of the world combined. They most certainly did not.
In a speech Stalin gave on November 6, 1941, with the Nazis on the outskirts of the major cities of Moscow and Leningrad, he explained the reason for the temporary reversal of the war. The one huge advantage the Nazis had was a vast superiority of armoured vehicles, called panzers, as that is the proper name of those vehicles.
The reason for that was quite simple. In the previous two years, 1939 and 1940, the Nazis had conquered Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belgium and France, among other countries. They had then taken over the factories in those conquered countries and put them to work producing panzers. As a result of this, at the start of the invasion, the Nazis had a far greater number of panzers than the Soviet Union. This required an orderly retreat on the part of the Soviets, at least temporarily.
Stalin pointed out that as a result of that correct policy, the Soviet losses were kept to a minimum, with a total of just over one million men killed, missing or wounded, within the first five months of the war. The Nazi losses were far greater, with four and a half million casualties.
It is instructive to compare this to the reports of the capitalists, to the effect that in the first five months of the war, the Red Army lost five million men. Those same reports state that after suffering such obscene losses, that same Red Army went on the offensive and pushed back the invading troops.
The capitalists would have us believe that the manpower of the Red Army was ”practically unlimited”. It was not. In fact, at that time, the population of the Soviet Union was roughly on a par with America. No one in his right mind would suggest that the American army could suffer losses of five million men and then counter attack. It simply cannot be done. This is merely one example of the lies of the capitalists.
It should be noted that the then socialist Soviet Union considered the earlier invasion of various countries, such as Poland, Belgium, France, the Netherlands and others, as merely a war of imperialist aggression, one more attempt on the part of the so called Great Powers, to redivide the world. This was of no concern to the workers of any particular country, whose only concern was to further the revolution in their own country.
By contrast, the invasion of the Soviet Union in June of 1941 was considered an act of aggression against the only socialist country in the world. The war of imperialist powers fighting among themselves, commonly referred to as the Second World War, was transformed into a just war. This war the Soviets referred to as The Great Patriotic War. The workers of all countries were called upon to fight the Nazis, in support of the Soviet Union.
As is well known, the Nazis were defeated in May of 1945, mainly as a result of the then socialist Soviet Union, led by Stalin. It was an accomplishment which cannot be denied.
Then several years later, in 1953, Stalin died and the capitalists, led by Khruschev, managed to return to power. The Soviet Union then became chauvinist, which is to say socialist in words, chauvinist in deeds. In other words, the Soviet Union became capitalist.
During the intervening years, events had taken place in other parts of the world which were also quite significant. Not the least of these was the successful revolution in China. In 1948, the workers and peasants of China, under the leadership of Mao Tse Tung and the Chinese Communist Party, were able to overthrow the capitalists and landlords and establish a democratic socialist republic, under the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat and Poor Peasants.
The death of Stalin and the subsequent return to power of the capitalists came as quite a shock. The Soviet Union was held is such high regard, so highly respected, it was difficult to grasp the fact that it had reverted to capitalism. The Chinese Communists later admitted that they made a mistake, were slow to react.
But react they did, starting with a criticism of Stalin. They concluded that Stalin had made several mistakes, some of them quite serious mistakes, but that he had also accomplished a great deal which out weighed his mistakes.
The astute reader may have grasped that the title of this article refers to the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and I have started with a reference to a history of the Soviet Union. There is a reason for this. The events in the Soviet Union, which I have very briefly summarized, led to the Cultural Revolution.
The Chinese Communists realized that as capitalism was restored in the Soviet Union, it could also be restored in China. It is not enough to overthrow the capitalists and establish a socialist republic, under the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat. That is merely the first step, and a most important, most difficult step it is. But then, once the proletariat seizes political power, how does it manage to maintain political power?
It is clear that in the Soviet Union the capitalists had not been crushed, at least not with sufficient enthusiasm. The proletariat had not exercised proper dictatorship over the capitalists, and this had allowed the vermin to return to power.
Under capitalism, there are occasions when people become stirred up and take an interest in their lives. This is referred to as an upsurge in the working class revolutionary movement. I refer to this as an act of God. We are currently living in one such period of time. The days when the members of the public, the working class, were apathetic, the days of reaction, are over. I deliberately avoid the use of the word ”masses”, whenever possible, as the word seems rather impersonal. I also maintain that this arousal of the working people is an act of God. As for those who object to the use of the word God, I make no apologies. I respect the beliefs of all others, including that of atheists, and in return I expect respect from others.
That being said, these same mass movements, that of the working class, happen under socialism. The capitalists, the bourgeoisie, are well aware of this. Under socialism, the capitalists hide, waiting and watching for any and all weakness within the working class, the proletariat. They bide their time, plotting and scheming, waiting for the proper moment to strike. They think that it is just a matter of time before the working class becomes complacent, drops their guard. At that point, they strike.
Under capitalism, all law enforcement personnel are well aware of the importance of following the money. As one thief explained, the reason he robbed banks is because ”that is where the money is”.
A similar situation exists under socialism. The capitalists are determined to regain that which they consider ”rightfully theirs”, by which they mean the ownership of the ”means of production”, which include the factories, mills, mines, banks, railroads, shipping lines and stocks in anything and everything. The key to regaining their ”paradise lost” lies with first regaining their power. And where is the power under socialism? With the Communist Party, of course.
After the revolution, we can expect the capitalists to weasel their way into the Communist Party, as they did in the Soviet Union and later in China. They carefully study Marxist literature and then revise it. As Lenin said, we can expect these revisions to be ”ever more subtle”. They remain revisions, and their goal is to restore capitalism. These revisionists must be rooted out of the Party.
The Chinese Communists faced this fact, after it was clear that the capitalists had restored capitalism in the Soviet Union. The working people of China were also on the move, the young people in particular were rising up, questioning that which they were being told, challenging authority. That should sound familiar to most people, as it happens frequently under capitalism.
The response of the Communist Party came as a complete surprise to almost everyone, none more so than the capitalists. The Central Committee passed a resolution that no one was to interfere with the people who were rebelling. Aside from cases of rape, murder or arson, the police and military were not to interfere. That was the beginning of the Great Chinese Cultural Revolution.
From the standpoint of the capitalists, once people get into motion, the problem is to control that motion, that mass movement. For that reason, the police especially are trained in various tactics of crowd control. Tear gas, shields, clubs and water cannons are the preferred weapons of choice, but bullets, even ”rubber bullets” are frequently employed, where such ”rubber bullets” are merely bullets coated with rubber. They remain bullets.
In cases where such ”civilized” methods are not effective, the capitalists tend to resort to more primitive methods, involving brute force. This may involve arming rather backward members of the working class, those who are chronically unemployed, with clubs and whips, possibly placing them on horse back, and sending them into the ”crowds” with orders to ”restore order”. As a last resort, the capitalists may bring in the military. The military personnel is not trained in crowd control. The military is trained to kill.
By contrast, under socialism, under the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat, this revolutionary motion in China was not suppressed. The young people were allowed to drag the capitalists out of their homes and places of work. Those capitalists were them publicly humiliated and ridiculed, but certainly not murdered. The members of the public were encouraged to tell these capitalists precisely that which they thought of them, all part of the re-education process.
As most working people are not terribly shy, they responded by hurling insults at the people who had abused and degraded them all their lives. In some cases, they even threw something more than insults, such as eggs and over ripe vegetables, perhaps tomatoes.
In this way, the working people were able to break the ”invisible chains” which bound them, their fear and loathing of those people. As Marx pointed out, ”the emancipation of the working class has to be an act of the working class”. No other class can emancipate the working class. In China, during the Cultural Revolution, the working people emancipated themselves. This revolution carried on for ten years.
For the capitalists of China, this was absolutely dreadful. There was no court of appeal, no police to protect them, no lawyers to hide behind. The very people whom they had crushed and exploited all their lives had turned on them. As the capitalists understood it, the working people no longer respected them. In this the capitalists were mistaken, as the working people never respected the capitalists. They feared the capitalists, with good reason. Such people control almost every aspect of working class life, from our housing to our jobs. The capitalists tend to confuse fear with respect.
This revolution is referred to as the Great Cultural Revolution, and it was magnificent. (That is not a word I use lightly.) The Chinese capitalists were hiding in fields of culture, such as arts and entertainment. The ten year cultural revolution rooted them out, or at least a good many of them.
In my opinion, the Great Cultural Revolution did not go far enough. It did not extend to the field of science, and the capitalists were also hiding in the field of science. I use the word science in its broadest sense, deliberately so. While the revolution touched upon the medical field of acupuncture, for example, that was the exception. In fact, notable advances were made in the field of acupuncture, but other fields of science were untouched.
The fact is that the Chinese have named the twelve years after twelve animals, and that includes the dragon. Yet no one asked the peasants to describe the dragon. No effort was made to track down this animal. In North America this animal is frequently referred to as the thunder bird. The same is true of the ”lake monster”, referred to as ogopogo in North America. Then there is the giant naked hairy people, or Yeti, the Sasquatch or Bigfoot of North America. Almost everyone has heard of ”water witching”, yet no one, during the Cultural Revolution, conducted a proper investigation. Let us not forget UFOs or flying saucers, and little people or leprechauns.
More broadly speaking, the mass extinction of dinosaurs of sixty five million years ago was never questioned, as well as the mass extinction of mega fauna here in North America, at the end of the last ice age. I maintain that these extinctions never took place, and a proper investigation, with the input of peasants, working people and students, could quite easily prove this.
These are merely a few examples of scientific theories, which I refer to as fairy tales, which were not challenged during the Cultural Revolution. As I have documented this in other writings, there is no need to go into further detail.
The fact remains that after the death of Mao in 1976, the capitalists were able to return to power. Before Mao died, he mentioned that any return to power of the capitalists, in China, would not last long. At worst, a few decades, as the public has been schooled in the class struggle, as a result of the Cultural Revolution. It has been several decades, so the next Chinese revolution could happen any time now. The revolutionary movement is very likely taking place in China even now, but as yet, we are unable to gather any reliable information in that respect.
The experience of previous revolutions, especially the successful socialist revolutions of Russia and China, provides us with a wealth of information. We would be well advised to pay attention to the lessons we can learn from these. That includes the fact that the capitalists were able to return to power, in both cases, at least temporarily. It is now up to us to avoid the mistakes the proletariat of those countries made, after they seized political power.
Here in North America, after the revolution, after the proletariat seizes political power and establishes the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat, it will be necessary to exercise all round dictatorship over the capitalists, the bourgeoisie. There must be no half measures, no shoddy work. The capitalists must be hunted down and suppressed, utterly crushed, wherever they hide. That includes various fields of science. Those who resist re-education must be dealt with severely, as they are determined to return to power, to once again establish capitalism. This is not to say that they must be executed, as once people are dead, they can never again be the slightest bit useful. Capital punishment must be used only as an absolute last resort. Very likely, contract killers and members of the Mob qualify for such punishment, as well as producers of kiddy porn and those who traffic in women and children, to be sold as slaves in the sex industry or sweat factories. Habitual rapists and child molesters may also be considered for such treatment. It remains for the working people to decide when this punishment must be meted out.
As a less severe form of punishment, the capitalists and criminals can be sent to perform useful work, perhaps in remote locations. After the revolution, a great deal of construction work will have to be done. Rail lines will have to be built, land cleared and tracks laid. As well, land will have to be cleared for power lines. The forests will have to be replanted and properly cleared. Those forests which are too thick will have to be spaced. A great deal of manual labor will be required after the revolution, and as the capitalists have virtually no labouring skills, that is about the only work they are qualified to perform. In areas which are quite inaccessible, they can be put to work digging ditches by hand, as the use of machines may not be practical.
At the same time, it will be best to allow them no access to any digital devices, whether computer, cell phone or any other form of communication device. Given the opportunity, they will no doubt use these devices to communicate with other capitalists, in their effort to overthrow the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat. We must not provide them with that opportunity.
In addition, the Communist Party must be purged on a regular basis. Those who lose their enthusiasm must be removed from the Party, as well as those who adopt the capitalist mentality. Without doubt, the capitalists will flock to the Communist Party, just as thieves flock to banks. Thieves rob banks because ”that is where the money is”, and capitalists will invade the Communist Party because that is where the power is, or at least, that is where the power will soon be, after the revolution.
These are all matters which we must face after the revolution. For now, the immediate problem is to prepare for the upcoming revolution. With that in mind, we should focus on the advice of Lenin, to the effect that ”no change of person or party” in Washington will shake it, that the capitalists will remain in charge.
It is most interesting to read that the Democratic Socialists of America are giving serious thought to endorsing Senator Bernie Sanders for president. A decision is expected momentarily. As Senator Sanders calls himself an Independent Socialist, he is the ideal candidate for president. I have explained in a previous article that we can use the internet to encourage working people to vote for Sanders. At the same time, we can campaign for other ”independent socialists” and ”leftist Democrats” for other offices. There is a reasonable chance that Senator Sanders can be elected President of the United States, as he is very popular. Ideally, the Senate and House will also be flooded with such progressive souls, independent socialists and leftist democrats, one and all. Not that it will change anything in Washington, but it may serve to change the attitudes of honest citizens.
For our purposes, it matters not if Sanders runs as an Independent Socialist or as a Democrat. I believe they use the term Left Democrat. Nor does it matter if other progressive, leftist candidates run as Democrats, Independent Socialists, Socialists, or Communists. Our goal is to get these people elected to political office, sent to Washington.
Further, we should urge all Americans to become card carrying members of the two parties, Democratic and Republican. As such, they will become ”party bosses”, responsible for determining the individual to run for any and all political offices, on behalf of both parties. That way, we can flood Washington with not only Left Democrats, but also Left Republicans. Such experience will serve as valuable training, which can and will be put to good use after the revolution. At that time, advanced workers will be placed in positions of authority.
My idea is that we can use all the tools available on the internet to explain to working people that the problem is capitalism. The capitalists are in charge. They are the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, parasites one and all, and they are not about to allow any change of face or political party in Washington to separate them from their wealth and power. This means that a change from Trump to Sanders, from Republican to Democratic, will make no difference. The bourgeoisie will remain in charge. It is best if the working people learn this from their own experience.
It is a fact that there are a great many working people who believe the lies the capitalists have told them all their lives, to the effect that the system can be changed from within. These people are honest, hard working, tax paying citizens, and cannot be blamed, as they have been misled. They will have to be persuaded from their own experience.
We maintain the only way to achieve socialism is through violent revolution, but the best way to persuade these honest, misguided workers is to elect to political office independent socialists and Leftist democrats. The working people will then see that we are correct, as a change of faces and political party in Washington will have no effect.
As Lenin phrased it in Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder, ”revolution is impossible without a change in the views of the majority of the working class, a change brought about by the political experience of the masses, never by propaganda alone.”
At the same time that we are encouraging the working people to vote for Sanders and Leftist Democrats, we must make our position clear concerning our opinion of capitalism and the need for a revolution and the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat. Trump and the Republicans are not the problem, but capitalism is the problem. If enough of us do that, there is a reasonable chance that Sanders can be elected as president and numerous others will be elected to office, either Senate or House of Representatives. Then the skeptics will see that we are right, and come around to our way of thinking. The revolution will be much stronger for this reason. If nothing else, at the time of the rebellion, we will have friends in Washington.
As for those who consider this wishful thinking, bear in mind that part of the reason Trump was elected was because he was a ”celebrity”. He was well known to the members of the public, long before he decided to run for president. Even he thought he had no chance of winning, and was surprised at the response he received. But then the members of the public tend to respond favourably to celebrities, and Sanders too is something of a celebrity.
With that in mind, there are other celebrities, even more popular than Sanders. No doubt many of them are progressive sorts and may be open to the idea of endorsing Sanders. Perhaps something as simple as a video posted on you tube would go a long way. To ask anyone to spend months on the campaign trail with a candidate is just not reasonable, and probably not necessary. For that matter, it is entirely possible that our support for such candidates may not be welcome. They may regard us as being too far to the left.
For us, that is a matter of indifference. Our one and only concern is to get these candidates elected, so that we may better expose the system. We are determined to get Sanders elected as president and others elected as Senators and members of Congress. We must compel Sanders and others just like him to go to Washington, to defeat Trump and the Republicans, because Sanders and the other Leftist Democrats are afraid of their victory!
This can be done. There are possibly fifty thousand members of the Democratic Socialists of America, and very likely as many members of other parties and groups on the left. The American Party of Labor comes to mind, as people who have a similar leftist viewpoint. If each member of each group is to join the two political parties, as card carrying members, then tens of thousands of Leftist people will become party bosses. Then if those same people persuade their family and friends to join the two parties, that number can be multiplied by ten. Without doubt, a million Leftist people could become party bosses, and push through the endorsement of all socialist and Leftist people for any and all political offices, on behalf of both parties. That includes the presidency, so that both parties could endorse Sanders for president.
Included in my rather vague statement of ”other groups”, is the members of the Me Too movement. No doubt most of those members are left leaning, and many of them are celebrities. They should be encouraged to join the two parties, of course along with their families and friends, not to mention their adoring fans. As these celebrities have a great army of adoring fans, it is quite possible that several million Leftist people will soon become card carrying members of the two parties. They will no doubt far out number the current crop of right wing reactionaries who are currently ”calling the shots”, deciding the individuals to run for all political offices. Very soon, the progressive Leftist people will be in charge, and all the candidates for office will be socialists, or at least Leftist people.
As well, those same celebrities should be encouraged to post videos on the internet. This is not to say that all celebrities should post such videos at the same time, as that would defeat the purpose. I believe the capitalists refer to this as ”flooding the market”, so that the postings would lose their effect. Instead, every few days, over the course of the election campaign, a celebrity can post a video endorsing Sanders and other socialist and Left people. That will certainly get the attention of working people, is far cheaper, and far more effective, than advertising.
As well, we can encourage Leftist people to adopt the tactic which was recently used quite successfully, in that the head of the Department of Homeland Security was interrupted while having a dinner at a fancy restaurant. A number of demonstrators protested there, pointing out that while she was enjoying a meal in luxury, she was responsible for separating immigrants from their children and all were being placed in jail, including toddlers in diapers. We need to see much more of this. Members of the Trump administration, as well as elected officials who are seen to be exceptionally reactionary, which is pretty well all of the Republican Party, should be subjected to such treatment.
With any luck, such videos may go viral, assuming that is the correct word. They may even be displayed on the mainstream news. That makes much more sense than raising millions of dollars for advertising, as is happening now. That of course is up to Sanders and other Leftist candidates, but the support I am suggesting relieves us of the moral obligation of donating to his campaign. Besides, advertisements tend to be boring, while that which I am suggesting is entertaining, and far more effective. Working people can be educated, while at the same time being entertained.
As previously mentioned, when referring to celebrities who post videos on the internet endorsing Sanders, I can also suggest that these public exposures be properly spaced as well. One exposure every few days will keep the working people interested, but not bored with this. It would help if a celebrity, or even a member of the Left, was to make a speech on each video. The working people have to be educated, made aware of the existence of classes, of class conflict, of the existence of the bourgeoisie and of the existence of their own class, the proletariat. Oh and incidentally, Bernie Sanders also has to be elected president.
Now it is up to us, conscious people, members of the Left, to come together, to put aside our differences, to campaign for Sanders and other Leftist candidates for political office. We can do this, using the tools provided by the internet. At the same time, we may find ourselves having fun, quite a change from the usual political boring routine.
We will know we are making our point when the posters and banners read:
Sanders for President!
Scientific Socialism!
Dictatorship of the Proletariat!
Workers of the World, Unite!
To return to the title of the article, I have deliberately tied together the experience of the Soviet Union with the Chinese Cultural Revolution and with the current revolution, that which is brewing in North America. My point is that we are all members of one working class, united against a common enemy, regardless of anywhere in the world we may live. It is essential that we support and learn from each other. For the moment -strictly for the moment- the bourgeoisie is much stronger than we are. Very soon, that will change, and it will change dramatically, as the human parasites are crushed under the iron boot of the proletariat.
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 