President Trump has stooped to an all new depth of depravity, suggesting that the newly elected members of Congress, the four members of the Democratic Party who refer to themselves as ”women of colour”, should ”return to their country”. The press is now referring the them as ”The Squad”, which shows that they have managed to separate themselves from the other Democratic members of Congress. (I should mention that the House of Representatives is generally referred to as the Congress). Perhaps it is more accurate to refer to them as the Proletarian Headquarters, which is currently based in Washington, because that is precisely what they are.
These four women, the members of The Squad, are clearly women of principle. They are doing the right thing, their duty, representing their constituency, defying the president and the Speaker of the House. As the Democrats now have a majority in the Congress, the Speaker of the House is a Democrat and she expects all Democratic members of the House to do as they are told. It is safe to say that all other Democratic members of the House are ”behaving themselves”, while the members of The Squad are answering to their voters. Such a display of courage is rarely seen in Washington. In fact, it is nothing less than revolutionary, class warfare in the heart of the American empire.
As all Marxists are well aware, the two mainstream political parties, Democratic and Republican, serve the same class, which is the capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie. The capitalists do their best to give working people the impression that there is a difference between the two parties. The Democratic Party in particular is billed as the party of the middle class. The capitalists would have us believe that American citizens who are managing to make ends meet, even with great difficulty, are members of the middle class. They are not. Such working people are members of the working class, and the Democratic party serves the bourgeoisie, which is the same class which is served by the Republicans.
In fact, the vast majority of Americans are working class, proletarians, working for wages. The middle class, or petty bourgeois, are the small business owners, and there are very few of them. Most of them have been ruined by the monopoly capitalists, the bourgeoisie. The small business owner simply cannot compete, just as the peasants, referred to as farmers in North America, cannot compete. Both classes have been practically wiped out. Any and all competition to the monopolies, no matter how slight, is simply not allowed. The capitalists go to great length to protect their profits.
If nothing else, that simplifies the class struggle. Now it is workers against capitalists, proletarians versus the bourgeoisie. There is no middle ground.
Trump is now in a frenzy. It is very likely that he is aware, if only instinctively, that the Squad is nothing less than a dual layer of power, one which he cannot crush by brute force. They are a threat to him and his class. They have been elected to Congress and have assumed a leadership role. He may not be able to crush them, but he can certainly slander them. He is suggesting they return to their country of birth, even though only one of them was born in a different country, and she has been an American citizen since she was in her teens. Such little details do not concern Trump. His only concern is that of protecting the class of which he is a member and which he represents, the bourgeoisie. Perhaps he thinks that he can silence them by insulting them. We have got to make sure that never happens.
The press is reporting that Trump is a racist, which is certainly true, and it is also true that he is prejudiced against women, especially women who do not ”know their place”. As far as Trump is concerned, a womans place is horizontal.
As further punishment, Trump is accusing these women of being socialists. They are not socialists, or at least not yet, but as far as Trump and the other members of the bourgeoisie are concerned, that is the supreme insult.
These women, the members of The Squad, are on the right track. They are taking a principled stand. At the same time, they are providing the working class, the proletarians, with an education. Whether they know it or not, they are letting working people know that any and all politicians either represent the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, or the workers, the proletarians. Once again, in the class struggle, there is no middle ground.
We can only hope that the capitalists continue to accuse those women of being socialists. With any luck, they may even be accused of trying to establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. That can only help to raise the level of awareness of the working class. No doubt the capitalists are using the word socialist to scare themselves and other people, in that the other people are members of the working class. The fact is that members of the working class have nothing to fear from socialism, which can only benefit the workers. But then no one in his right mind has ever accused the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, of being logical.
On the other hand, the bourgeoisie have every reason to be scared, as scientific socialism implies the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat, which is the state apparatus which will be soon set up, after the revolution, and used to break the resistance of the capitalists.
Now we have to prepare for that dictatorship, and there is no time to lose, as the revolution could break out any day. Perhaps the first order of business is to protect the Squad, the proletarian headquarters. As they are a mere four members out of four hundred thirty five members of Congress, they are likely feeling like a minority, which is precisely what they are. They are also spearheading the assault on the capitalist headquarters in Washington, and must be protected. It may help to think of them as having a toe hold on the beach head of the fortress of the enemy. They must be encouraged to hold their ground, at least until reinforcements arrive, in the next election.
With that in mind, I can only suggest that those who have recently become members of the two parties, Republican and Democratic, flex their muscles. By that I mean a possible march on Washington, and in particular to the office of the Speaker of the House. (I should add that for the purpose of this article I refer to card carrying members of the two parties as members.) Even those who have applied for membership and are waiting for their cards to arrive should join the march. I suggest carrying signs with a number on them, which represents the days until the next election, at which point numerous Leftist people will be elected to office in Washington, especially in the Congress, and one of the first orders of business will be to depose the Speaker of the House. I am sure that such a demonstration will make headlines, which is precisely what we need to raise the level of awareness of the working class. It will also raise the morale of the Squad, the Proletarian Headquarters. They will know that they are not alone, that they have the support of the working class.
This is not to say that we can achieve socialism by taking over the two parties and flooding Washington with socialists. At least, that is the opinion of all Marxists, but not all Leftist people are Marxists. There are a considerable number of Leftist people, many of whom consider themselves to be socialists but not Marxists, who think that a peaceful transition to socialism is possible. Even though they are mistaken, we have got to respect their belief. At the same time, there are a great many working people who are of that opinion. It is only natural that they believe the lies of the capitalists, as they are constantly being bombarded with such propaganda. Working people who are honest tend to believe that others are also honest.
With respect to such honest people, those who are conscious members of the Left or working class people, members of the public, a certain amount of patience is required. They will soon learn, from their own experience, that the capitalists are not about to surrender their power peacefully.
As I write this, the 20-20 elections, as they are called, are still over a year away. Yet the various Democratic candidates for president, and there are about two dozen of them, have already raised possibly hundreds of millions of dollars, in total. A greater waste of money is difficult to imagine. Yet the press is keeping close track of the fund raising amounts of each candidate. They think the candidate who raises the most money will win the nomination for president, on behalf of the Democratic Party. Sadly, I can see their point.
Under capitalism, everything is for sale. That includes the presidency.
Now it is up to us, by which I mean Leftist people, to let the working people know that is about to change. At the same time, the press should get the message. The tidal wave of revolution is about to sweep the country. The days of political offices being sold to the highest bidder are over. The working class, the proletariat, is on the offensive. We will first flood the two parties with Leftist people, and the two parties will in turn flood Washington with Leftist politicians.
Very soon the Squad, the Proletarian Headquarters, will no longer be a minority. They will be a majority.
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 