It is clear that the capitalists are at their ”wits end”, not sure ”which way to jump”, to put it in popular terms. In Washington, the top politicians are calling for unity, while at the same time demanding the impeachment of Trump, even though he is no longer president, (which makes no sense!) and the removal from office of various top politicians, from both the Senate and the House of Representatives. (which makes even less sense) In fact, a top Republican politician is telling other Republicans to stop attacking each other, or as he put it, in terms which were something less than eloquent, to ”cut that crap out”. (This is their idea of unity!)
This is merely an indication of just how confused the bourgeois politicians have become. As Lenin phrased it, in a similar situation, referring to the idiotic remarks of a bourgeois politician, ”this argument shows in particular how muddled even the most intelligent members of the bourgeoisie have become and how they cannot help committing irreparable blunders. That, in fact, is what will bring about the downfall of the bourgeoisie”.
The only difference between the time in which Lenin worked and the present, lies in the fact that the present situation is much simpler. We no longer have to deal with the class of people known as the nobility. As well, the peasantry and the petty bourgeois, the middle class, have been pretty well wiped out. The bourgeois have simplified the class struggle, in that they have largely succeeded in destroying those classes. Now it is a simple matter of workers versus capitalists, proletarians versus bourgeois. Yet the bourgeois is still as confused as ever!
In addition, the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, recently announced that ”the enemy is within the House of Representatives”. In this, she is correct, and that is an indication of the strength of the revolutionary movement. There are now members of Congress who are revolutionary!
As for those who find this to be shocking, may I suggest that people read the Communist Manifesto, written by Marx and Engels. They explain this quite clearly: ”In times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the process of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact within the whole range of old society, assumes such a violent, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands”.
There can be no doubt that the class struggle is near the ”decisive hour”, that the ”dissolution going on within the ruling class”, in this case the capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, has caused a ”small section” of the bourgeoisie to ”cut itself adrift”, and that this small section has joined the ”revolutionary class”, in this case the workers, the proletariat, the class which ”holds the future in its hands”.
This is not to say that the bourgeois is entirely stupid, and in fact the sharper ones have noticed this revolutionary motion. In response, they recommend the building of another wall, this time a ”permanent wall”, (as opposed to a temporary wall?) around the Capitol Building. As if a flimsy wall is going to stop a million angry workers! They do not know much about workers! Yet the bourgeois certainly do love their walls! Such childish faith in flimsy walls is touching! We will see how strong their faith is, when the workers put that wall to the test!
The press, which serves the capitalists so well, is having a difficult time in presenting the news in a manner which is favourable to the bourgeois. Now the journalists have been forced to admit that even before the Capitol Building was ”stormed” on January 6, another Capitol Building, in the state of Oregon, was also ”stormed”. As that is the case, it is reasonable to conclude that the working class, in the state of Oregon, and especially in the city of Seattle, is a leader of the American revolution.
In particular, there are scattered reports that the workers who have occupied part of Seattle, as well as other parts of Oregon, are now well organized and on the offensive. Videos show them with helmets and shields, and by now, they very likely have been armed with ”night sticks” or clubs. As well, the press reports that they have ”bullet proof vests”, or body armour. (The journalists also think this is terrible!) That is in addition to the tasers, pepper ball guns and ”fireworks”. We should not lose sight of the fact that those fireworks are nothing less that gun powder!
As yet, there are no reports of those workers being armed with slings. With a little practice, and armed with the proper ammunition, such as marbles, slingers can become surprisingly accurate. The advantage of marbles, as ammunition, is that each is precisely the same size and weight. Such weapons, as well as tasers, can be quite effective when used against people mounted on horses. When a horse is struck with a taser or a marble, the horse will in turn very likely give the rider flying lessons.
No doubt, the capitalists will continue with the tried and proven method of using water cannons against the revolutionaries. The water trucks get their water from fire hydrants, so that a simple way to neutralize the water cannons is with the use of pipe wrenches, in order to open up as many of the fire hydrants as possible. In that way, the water pressure will quickly drop to nil, so that there will be no water for the water cannons.
The journalists are unwilling, or unable, to refer to the people who are protesting as revolutionaries. Instead, they prefer to use the terms ”rioters”, ”anarchists” or ”domestic terrorists”. Possibly the idea of another American revolution is too terrible for words. Or possibly it is not in their interests to mention the word. Either way, very soon they are about to learn the meaning of the word.
As an indication of the confusion surrounding the revolutionary uprising, a statement by the head of the Republican Party of Oregon is revealing: ”Whereas there is growing evidence that the violence at the Capitol was a ‘false flag’ operation designed to discredit President Trump, his supporters, and all conservative Republicans; this provided the sham motivation to impeach President Trump in order to advance the Democratic goal of seizing total power, in a frightening parallel to the February 1933 burning of the German Reichstag”.
I mention this merely as an example of the ”process of dissolution” going on within the bourgeoisie. They are turning upon each other, much as mad dogs bite each other.
The DHS has also issued a bulletin to the effect that there is a ”heightened threat from domestic violent extremists”. That same bulletin also mentions the fact that ”domestic terrorists” may be motivated by a range of issues, ”including the virus”.
If nothing else, this provides a very clear cut example of the difference of outlook of the two classes, workers and capitalists. Working people are concerned with the suffering and death of so many of their fellow workers, while the capitalists are concerned that it may give rise to a ”threat from domestic violent extremists”. In other words, in simple English, the capitalists are afraid that the working people, whom they refer to as ”domestic violent extremists” and ”domestic terrorists”, may revolt!
It is also clear that the labels of ”rioters”, ”anarchists” and ”terrorists” has been replaced by ”domestic violent extremists” and ”domestic terrorists”. Perhaps the working class revolutionaries have been given a promotion!
The death rate due to the virus is perhaps the highest in the world, because the one and only way to control the spread of the virus is through social isolation. The trouble is that people who are not moving, are also not spending their money. Americans are being encouraged to travel and enjoy themselves. Planes, bars and clubs are hot spots for the virus, yet that is precisely the places that people are being encouraged to frequent. Profits before people!
The bourgeois have clearly not learned the lessons of the first American revolution, or of the following French revolution, of 1789. For that matter, they have absolutely failed to grasp the significance of the February Revolution of Russia, 1917. That Revolution, which resulted in the overthrow of the Russian Czar, was completely spontaneous. There were no leaders! We know this for a fact, because all the leaders of the workers and peasants, by which I mean the Marxists, had been thrown in prison and either killed or exiled.
Lenin was one of the Marxists whom had been first thrown in prison and later exiled. At the time of the February revolution of 1917, he was living in Switzerland. It was not until April of that year, that he was able to return to Saint Petersburg, the capital of Russia. He was then able to complete the revolution, to lead the Russian common people to victory over the nobility, landlords and capitalists, on October 25 (old style calendar) or November 7 (new style calendar) of 1917. A Soviet Socialist Republic was established, under the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat.
The point is that working people spontaneously get into motion, and on occasion, manage some very impressive victories. The overthrow of the Russian Czar was one such victory. The occupation of the Capitol Building, on January 6 of this year, was also quite impressive.
Yet the fact remains that the Russian working people were not capable of carrying through the revolution to scientific socialism. Through no fault of their own, they were not class conscious. That consciousness was brought to them by the Russian Communist Party, with Lenin as the leader. Armed with that knowledge, the working people of Russia were then able to overthrow the capitalists and establish a proper socialist republic, under the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat.
A similar situation exists today in America. The American workers have managed to secure some impressive victories, and for this they deserve full credit. Yet it is safe to say that the American workers can carry the revolution no further. They too are not class conscious. They require knowledge, which can only be brought to them by Marxist intellectuals. Of necessity, most of these intellectuals will be middle class, or more likely former members of the middle class. The capitalists will see to that!
As for those who are prejudiced against middle class intellectuals, bear in mind the words of Lenin: ”According to their social status, the founders of modern scientific socialism, Marx and Engels, themselves belonged to the bourgeois intelligentsia”.
Now it is up to modern day bourgeois intellectuals to raise the level of awareness of the American proletariat, or at least that of the most advanced workers, to the level of conscious people, which is to say Marxists. They have to be made aware of the necessity of overthrowing the capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, of smashing the existing state machine, and replacing it with a proletarian state apparatus, to be used to crush the desperate and determined resistance of the capitalists. This new state apparatus is referred to as the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat.
As Lenin went on to state, quite clearly, ”Without a revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary movement”. He further stated that ”the role of vanguard can be fulfilled only by a party that is guided by an advanced theory. (italics by Lenin) He placed the preceding in italics as a means of stressing the importance of a truly scientific socialist Communist Party, one which calls for the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat. Without such a Party, the revolution is in danger of being diverted onto a Right Wing tangent.
Here too, the Communist Manifesto makes it quite clear that the purpose of the Communist Party is the ”formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat”.
That is a fact, just as it is also a fact that the current crisis in capitalism has forced a great many middle class intellectuals into the ranks of the proletariat. They bring with them their knowledge of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. To such people, I can only say that now is the time to become active, to put those theories to good use, to form a true Communist Party, Dictatorship Of the Proletariat, and lead this, the Second American Revolution, to victory. The workers are doing their part. Now it is time for you intellectuals, scientific socialists, true Marxists, to do your part. The fate of the Second American Revolution depends on this.
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 