Now Is the Time For Insurrection

A great many Americans woke up recently to some rather refreshing news. The president of the United States, Donald Trump himself, has now contracted the virus! Countless people were giddy with delight, shedding tears of sheer joy. Even the journalists were deeply touched (or especially the journalists), although most performed a reasonable imitation of sympathy and concern for their Commander in Chief. Some even went to the length of wishing him a speedy recovery!

Trump in turn has risen to the occasion. Even though sick, he has allowed the medical people to administer to him a drug cocktail, including steroids. Properly pumped up on these drugs, he proudly announced that he now ”understands” the virus. He then left the hospital and made a great display of removing his mask, at the entrance to the White House. In his ensuing speech, he offered encouragement to his faithful followers, as he ”feels better than twenty years ago”. He then advised people, ”don’t be afraid of covid”.

As the press was quick to point out, this is an insult to the families of the hundreds of thousands of people who have lost a member to the virus. In addition, countless others are about to be infected. It is anticipated that as soon as the flu season strikes, the combination of flu and the virus will likely increase the daily death toll dramatically.

This has given rise to open speculation that the Twenty Fifth Amendment to the Constitution may soon be put into effect. That comes into play when it is determined that the president is incapacitated, due to physical or mental inability to perform his job. The more charitable people suspect that Trump no longer has the mental acuity to perform his job. The less charitable are of the opinion that he was never capable of doing his job!

The Chairman of the Federal Reserve has even weighed in on the matter. In the face of all the suffering and death caused by the virus, he is warning of an ”economic tragedy” if America cannot control the virus. This is ”economist speak” for another Great Depression, which is right around the corner. It is also the true voice of capitalism, in that there is no place for sentiment. The only thing that concerns the capitalists is their capital. The suffering of millions of people concerns them only in so far as it affects their profits.

This has not stopped Trump from ”returning to work”. He is now back in the Oval Office at the West Wing of the White House, according to journalists. One lady, who makes a career of reporting on the disfunction within the presidential palace, stated that the situation is completely chaotic, more so than usual, ”and that is really saying something”. Sadly, she was not even trying to be funny. She was merely stating a fact.

The Secret Service agents, those highly trained professional people who are prepared to take a bullet for the president, are not at all happy. It is one thing to take a bullet for the president, and something else entirely to take a bullet from the president, so to speak. Of course, the ”bullet” to which they are referring is the virus Trump is carrying. The Secret Service people were forced to drive Trump around the White House grounds in an enclosed vehicle, while he was infected. Even with personal protective equipment, those agents were in danger of contracting the virus.

The American military is also feeling the pinch, with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in isolation. Some, or possibly all of them, may have been infected by the virus, perhaps due to contact with Trump.

Even the bourgeois intellectuals are concerned. They choose their words carefully, in order to make no mention of classes and certainly not of class conflict. Instead they stretch their imaginations to the limit, performing an impressive act of verbal gymnastics, and in the process, inventing such terms as ”moral compass”, ”soul of the nation”, and a country that is ”spiralling out of control.” As if it is possible to have a country without classes!

By contrast, the press is reporting that as a result of the crises facing the nation, the wealth of the ”super rich”, the ”billionaires”, has increased dramatically. The more deeply the common people sink into poverty, the more enriched become the capitalists. Of course, as loyal servants of the bourgeoisie, the press is careful to make no mention of such a word, as that would suggest the existence of classes.

These intellectuals dare not state that which is really bothering them: Revolution. They suspect that the lawyers for Trump are prepared to ”go nuclear”, to bypass the electoral college somehow, if necessary, and force the presidential election into the House of Representatives. In that case, it does not require a majority of votes to determine the next president, but a majority of states! As there are fifty states in the union, and each state has one vote, it requires a mere twenty six votes in the House to determine the next president.

Those same bourgeois intellectuals are afraid that the American working class people will not stand for this. Their fear is that Trump is determined to trigger a revolution, whether he knows it or not. Not that Trump cares. His concern is solely with his own personal ambition, and that means staying in power. The oath of office he took, upon becoming president, was a mere bit of idle verbiage.

In response, the bourgeois have turned one of their ”big guns” upon Trump. They have enlisted one of the former ”first ladies”, in an attempt to discredit him, hopefully with the result of voting him out of office. It is her opinion that ”our country is in chaos”, that Trump is ”not up to the job”, that he is a ”racist, spreading fear and division, fails to take the virus seriously”, that the country is ”spirally out of control”, that he is determined to ”destroy this nation”. As that is the case, her solution to the problem is to ”vote like your life depended on it”.

She has managed to state the facts correctly, while at the same time implying that the problem is Trump, and the solution to the problem lies in voting him out of office. Except that Trump is not the problem, the problem is one of capitalism, and a mere change of face will not change the fact that the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, are in charge. It is not a change of face that is required, but a change of class! It is up to the working class, the proletariat, to overthrow the capitalist class, the bourgeoisie, and to set up a new state apparatus, in order to crush the bourgeoisie, under the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat.

This is not to say that people should be discouraged from voting, as voting is very important. It is one of our democratic rights, and we can exercise that right, or we can risk losing it. Not that Trump will be removed from office as a result of a vote. He has a small army of lawyers who are determined to make sure that does not happen.

The flip side to the coin, or the other aspect to the contradiction, is the working class motion. That motion is becoming ever stronger, as the desperation of the working class increases dramatically. The ranks of the unemployed are rising daily, as the country slides into another Great Depression. The ”economic stimulus checks” are running out, so that ever more people are relying upon food banks. Further, tens of millions of people are about to find themselves homeless, as the laws against eviction expire. The onset of winter can only serve to intensify the suffering.

Yet in the midst of all this turmoil, with the middle class, the petty bourgeois, being wiped out and the suffering of the working class, the proletariat, reaching ever greater heights, the press is reporting, quite gleefully, that the ”billionaires”, the bourgeoisie, are becoming ever more wealthy!

Now is the time for action. The ruling class is in a state of confusion, fighting among themselves. Their current method of rule, which has served them so well for so many years, is no longer effective. At the same time, the suffering of the common people, the working class, has reached intolerable proportions. In short, the situation is similar to the situation of Russia in 1917, on the eve of the revolution. At that time, as Lenin stated it, ”different classes now stand on the one and the other side of the barricade”.

In Russia, early November, (new style calendar), some of the members of the Russian Communist Party (although at the time it was using a different name) were of the opinion that the revolution, or at least the seizure of power, the insurrection, should be postponed, for one reason or another. There was talk of waiting until after the convocation of the Constituent Assembly, or after another meeting of the Central Committee, or for some other reason.

By contrast, Lenin was of the opinion that ”The situation is critical in the extreme…everything now hangs by a thread; that we are confronted by problems which are not to be solved by conferences or congresses… but exclusively by peoples, by the masses, by the struggle of the armed people…The government is tottering. It must be given the death blow at all costs. To delay action is fatal.” (italics by Lenin)

A similar situation now exists in America. The finest bourgeois intellectuals are of the opinion that the government is ”tottering, hanging by a thread”. Now is the time to ”give the death blow”, before the bourgeois can regroup. They are at their weakest, so now is the time to strike. Now is not the time to wait for the federal election!

An important difference between Russia in 1917, and America in 2020, is that there is currently no American Communist Party to provide the leadership. That is a serious matter, but one which can be overcome rather quickly and easily.

It was just a little under four years ago that the American women flexed their muscles. They gave a whole new meaning to the expression ”fight like a woman”!

In protest against the presidency of Trump, marches took place across the country, in almost all cities and towns. These protests spread to numerous countries of the world, in a show of solidarity with American women. To say that this was most impressive, is an under statement. Now is the time for those same women to ”aim higher”, to ”raise the bar”, to mount an insurrection, to overthrow the capitalist system and establish a truly democratic government, a democracy for the working class, a socialist government, one which will crush the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, under the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat!

Bear in mind that America was founded on revolution! The American founding fathers have given Americans the right to ”abolish any government which does not represent them”! This right is guaranteed in the Declaration of Independence. By taking part in this next, socialist revolution, against a government which crushes and exploits all working class Americans, you are proudly following in the footsteps of your ancestors!

There can be no doubt that the ladies who organized that protest knew precisely what they were doing. It is very likely that most of them were middle class, well educated, professional people. That was then and this is now. In such a short time, the situation has changed dramatically. The crisis in capitalism has devastated the middle class, so that most of them are no longer middle class. But now, they are still well educated, professional people, currently members of the working class, proletarians. They still have their skills and experience, and they know first hand the mind set of the bourgeois. Now is the time to put those skills to work, not in the service of the ungrateful bourgeois, but in the service of the common people, the proletariat.

To a large extent, the fate of the revolution is in the hands of these ladies. So I say there is a great deal of truth in the saying, ”To whom much has been given, of her much shall be required”. The American people are counting upon you. I have no doubt you will rise to the occasion.

With that in mind, I will now appeal to those ladies directly. No doubt you are aware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. Equally without doubt, you are highly skilled with computers. As that is the case, there is no need to gather in one setting and form a Communist Party. You can do that on the internet, taking reasonable precautions. May I suggest a political platform being based on the fundamental tenets of Marx and Lenin. That includes the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat. The mere mention of that tenet should serve to distinguish Communists from social chauvinists, as well as utopian socialists.

Bear in mind that the self proclaimed socialists, those who are of the opinion that socialism is a good idea, are not the enemy. On the contrary, they are valuable allies, and we want all the friends we can get! Do not antagonize them! They are not to be confused with the social chauvinists, those who are the loyal servants of the bourgeoisie, dead set opposed to revolution and especially the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat.

You can expect membership in the Party to be quite limited. It is not the size of the Party membership that is of great importance but the policy it pursues. You want to appeal to as many working people as possible, regardless of race, religion, culture, ethnic background or personal belief. Stress the fact that we want to create a society which is not based on profit, but on the well being of all. A society where one person has one vote. A society where the background of a person is not held against that person. We can all start with a clean slate after the revolution.

You can also make it clear that any criminal elements who choose to carry on in the old way will be dealt with harshly. They will not be mollycoddled. They will not be allowed to hide behind lawyers. They can expect to be judged by working people, and those judges are to be elected by the working class. If convicted, criminals can expect to be sent to work camps, not to ”correctional” country clubs, currently known as prisons. In these work camps, they can and will perform useful, productive work, for perhaps the first time in their lives.

Under the current, bourgeois system of capitalism, thieves and killers have all the rights. It is well known, among the criminal elements, that America is a ”thieves paradise”. No where else in the world is it so easy to ”make a dishonest buck”. Those days are numbered!

Under socialism, under the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat, working people can and will take care of our own. We will make sure that people are properly fed, clothed and housed. We will protect our seniors, our children and our helpless. Anyone who tries to take advantage of them will live to regret this. Or perhaps they will not live to regret this!

We will also attempt to correct mistakes which were made under capitalism, in that many women were assaulted and then denied justice, if only due to the ”statute of limitations”. Under socialism, such a statute will not apply. Those who seek justice will be allowed to confront the human scum who assaulted them. It may help to think of this as a little reunion. The numerous ladies who were forced to engage in acts of intimacy with these creeps, will be allowed to spend a little ”quality time” with them.

I can only hope that many ladies can take inspiration in these happy thoughts.

Now is the time for insurrection. As I have gone over this in previous articles, perhaps a quick summary is sufficient.

Possibly not everyone is aware that the transfer of power now means armed insurrection. This may seem obvious, but perhaps not everyone has given thought to this. To repudiate armed uprising now would mean to repudiate one of the key tenets of Marxism. If that is the case, then such an individual does not belong in the Communist Party.

Armed insurrection is merely another form of political struggle, but a special form, one subject to specific laws. It was Marx, no less, who stated, quite emphatically, that ”insurrection is an art quite as much as war”. He went on to stress:

1) Never play with insurrection, but when beginning it realize firmly that you must go all the way

2) Concentrate a great superiority of forces at the decisive point and at the decisive moment, otherwise the enemy, who has the advantage of better preparation and organization, will destroy the insurgents

3) Once the insurrection has begun, you must act with the greatest determination, and by all means, without fail, take the offensive. The defensive is the death of every armed uprising

4) You must try to take the enemy by surprise and seize the moment when his forces are scattered

5) You must strive for daily successes, however small (one might say hourly, if it is the case of one town), and at all costs retain moral superiority

Marx went on to sum up the the lessons of all revolutions, in respect to armed uprisings, in the words of Danton, ”the greatest master of revolutionary policy yet known”: Audacity!

Insurrection is the order of the day, and this is not the time, or the place, for a pilgrim. Such pacifist souls can seek refuge in the Peace Corp. They certainly do not belong in the Communist Party, as it is the Party which is about to lead the insurrection.

The transportation and communications centres must be occupied and held, at all costs. The internet must be disabled! The telephones must be shut down. All railway stations must be occupied. Major highways must be shut down, and above all, the bridges must be closed! As well as the air ports and sea ports.

The most determined troops, the ”shock forces”, which will very likely include the young people, must be formed into relatively small detachments to occupy all the more important points and to take part in all important operations. These include seizing and occupying the White House, the Pentagon, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Senate and House of Representatives. The state capital buildings must also be occupied. Under no circumstances should any of them be allowed to communicate with each other or anybody else. Give them no opportunity to go on the offensive. Bear in mind the words of Marx, to the effect that the defensive is the death of every insurrection!

We can expect that those who are detained will fake sickness, such as heart attacks, in an attempt to force the guards to give them an opportunity to escape and mount an offensive. For that reason, only the most resolute must be assigned this all important task. Even if the heart attack is sincere, better to let one bourgeois die than to allow for the failure of the uprising.

It is vitally important that the attitude of all, especially the shock troops, should be -victory or death! Better to die at their posts, than allow the revolution to fail!

Most working people have firearms, or at least have access to firearms. Very soon, those weapons are going to come in very handy. The capitalists, the bourgeoisie, will go to any length to maintain their hold on power. That includes ordering their troops to fire upon women and children. Let there be no misunderstanding on that point!

We can only hope that at the time of the insurrection, the leaders will follow the advice of Marx. The success of the revolution depends upon this. It is very likely that two or three days fighting will prove decisive.

Ladies, the success of the revolution now lies in your hands.