Recently, on Remembrance Day, November 11, 2023, Donald Trump, the former president of the United States, gave a speech in the state of New Hampshire. That speech was nothing less than historic. For once, Trump spoke the truth. He revealed his plan to once again occupy the White House, and settle some old scores with his perceived enemies. Almost all members of the main stream press are shocked and horrified. With good reason, I might add.
This is the speech Trump gave:
‘’The threat from outside sources is far less sinister, dangerous and grave than the threat from within. We will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists and the Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country, that lie and steal and cheat on elections and will do everything possible, legally and illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American dream. The real threat is not from the Radical Right, the real threat is from the Radical Left and it is growing every single day. The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within.’’
One of the more astute, among the bourgeois journalists, had this to say:
‘’A mask off moment, for the disgraced, twice impeached, four times indicted former president. He is making his contempt for our democracy and its institutions and its people crystal clear, once again.
‘’An ex president who tried to overturn our democracy, now claims in front of supporters, that Americans here at home pose a greater threat to our country, than any of our adversaries abroad. He describes his political opponents as ’vermin’’’.
This journalist is correct when he states that Trump regards all of his ‘’political opponents’’ as ‘’vermin’’. Yet it is also a fact that he regards anyone who opposes him as vermin! That includes members of law enforcement, such as judges and prosecutors, and even their families!
This reference to ‘’vermin’’, naturally leads to comparisons to other authoritarian leaders. Historians have this to say: ‘’The language is the language that dictators use to install fear…When you dehumanize an opponent, you strip them of their constitutional right to participate securely in a democracy, because you are saying that they are not human. That is what dictators do’’.
Another historian said that calling people ‘’vermin’’, was used effectively by Hitler and Mussolini, in order to encourage their followers to engage in violence.
In response to questions by journalists, a spokesman for Trump said that the comparison to Hitler was ridiculous, and that ‘’critics of Trump are sad, miserable, and their entire existence will be crushed, when Trump returns to the White House’’.
Even the spokesman for Trump admits that Trump plans to use the power of the office of presidency, in order to ‘’crush his critics’’! So how is that different from the actions of Hitler?
Those who were formerly very close to Trump, say that he is not the same man who became president, in 2017. At that time, he was completely unprepared to assume power. For that reason, certain members of his ‘’inner circle’’ were able to exercise a certain measure of influence over him. Such is no longer the case.
Now, journalists are reporting that an ‘’ultra right wing think tank’’, which they refer to as the ‘’Heritage Foundation’’, is ‘’grooming’’ Trump, preparing to set him up as the next president, through ‘’Project 2025’’. The members of this ‘’think tank’’ are referred to as the ‘’handlers’’ of Trump. The handlers, in turn, think of Trump as their ‘’asset’’, as is indeed the case. In fact, Trump is nothing other than a puppet, and those handlers are ‘’pulling his strings’’.
Journalists report that possibly as many as 54,000 people have already been ‘’prepared’’, to be placed in ‘’various government agencies, including legal, judicial, defence, regulatory and domestic policy jobs’’. These people have been carefully screened, by the handlers of Trump. Those same handlers plan to purge anyone, within the government as well as outside, who is ‘’viewed as hostile’’. They have that which is politely referred to as a ‘’very unconventional and elastic views of presidential power and traditional rule of law’’.
The ‘’unconventional’’ plan to seize power, involves having Trump invoke the Insurrection Act, on the first day of office. This will give him the authority to use the military against American citizens. The military will then build camps capable of housing millions of people. This would then be followed by sweeping raids, in which countless ‘’undocumented people’’ would be ‘’incarcerated’’ in those huge camps, in preparation for ‘’mass deportations’’.
To help speed mass deportations, Trump is preparing an enormous expansion of a form of removal that does not require due process hearing. Part of that ‘’preparation’’ involves scrapping the Constitution.
Further, it stands to reason that those who do not qualify for deportation, may deserve ‘’special treatment’’. The Nazis found that ‘’termination’’ met that requirement. It is very likely that Trump has a similar solution in mind, especially as anyone who opposes him is mere ‘’vermin’’.
A former high ranking official in the Trump administration, one who served him loyally for more than a year, stated it quite clearly: ‘’He lacks any shred of human decency, humility or caring. He is morally bankrupt, breathtakingly dishonest, lethally incompetent, and stunningly ignorant of virtually anything related to governing, history, geography, human events or world affairs. He is a traitor and malignancy in our nation, and represents a clear and present danger to our democracy and the rule of law.’’
It is significant that no high ranking elected politician, of the Republican Party, has dared to challenge Trump on these plans. Even the National Chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, has been intimidated into silence. As she answered, in response to a question, ‘’I am not going to comment on the candidates and their campaign messaging’’.
As a journalist pointed out, even though it is her duty to respond to such questions, she prefers to ‘’turn a blind eye’’ to a ‘’would be dictator’’.
This defence of Trump, as he plans to seize power and set himself up as a fascist dictator, is not limited to the RNC. Even the members of his election campaign defend his ‘’vermin comment’’, as well as his suggestion that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, of the American military, should be executed! After all, that Chairman did not go along with his plan for a military coup! As well, they even defend his plan to jail those who are investigating Trump! Both judges and prosecutors! Even though they are merely doing their job!
In fact, Trump wants no part of ‘’democracy’’! He want to ‘’terminate’’ the Constitution! He plans to set himself up as a fascist dictator!
For the benefit of the countless working people who are just now becoming politically active, I should mention that both Hitler and Mussolini were fascists. By definition, a fascist is defined as ‘’a follower of a political philosophy characterized by authoritarian views and a strong central government- and no tolerance for opposing opinions.’’
As is quite well known, in the nineteen thirties, Mussolini formed the National Fascist Party of Italy, while Hitler formed the National Socialist German Workers Party, or Nazi Party. Not that the Nazis were Socialist or Workers, but that is the name they chose.
It is also well known that, in the twentieth century, Hitler made a speech, on January 30, 1939, in which he stated that ‘’the outbreak of war would mean the end of European Jewry’’. Hitler was not joking. For once, he was telling the truth. In fact, Hitler clearly stated, in his book Mein Kampf, that which he planned to do.
Now in the twenty first century, we have another maniac, another fascist, making similar threats. Just as Hitler had a huge following, so too Trump has a huge following. Further, Trump is equally determined to carry through on his threats. It would be a mistake to under estimate that psycho.
The main stream journalists are deeply alarmed with the rhetoric of Trump. They are well aware that he consistently refers to them as the ‘’purveyors of fake news’’. As that is the case, Trump sees them as ‘’members of the Radical Left’’, as ‘’vermin’’ that are determined to ‘’destroy America’’. For that reason, he is determined to ‘’crush’’ them, once he returns to the White House. Trump is not joking.
This threat of fascism comes as no surprise, to any Marxist. After all, we live under a state of monopoly capitalism, which is technically referred to as imperialism. And, as Lenin stated, in his book Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, ‘’the political features of imperialism are reaction all along the line’’. Fascism is one form of reaction.
Lenin also stated that it is simply not possible to ‘’reform’’ imperialism. It has to be destroyed.
It is reasonable to assume that the journalists, for the main stream press, are accurately reporting events which are happening. Most of them, but by no means all, are people of principle. They take great pride in their work.
As that is the case, then it is clear that the political situation has recently changed, quite dramatically. Previously, the ruling class of billionaires, the bourgeoisie, regarded Trump as a ‘’nuisance’’, a ‘’loose cannon’’. Now they have found a use for that ‘’nuisance’’, They have decided to surround that ‘’loose cannon’’ with a small army of handlers, and put him to work, in their service.
This is no doubt their idea of ‘’killing two birds with one stone’’. On the one hand, their current method of rule, that of the Constitution and the Two Party System, is not working. So they have to change their method of rule. On the other hand, Trump the Nuisance, even though one of their own, has to be contained. So by corralling Trump and setting him up as a Dictator, a figure head President, while scrapping the Constitution, both problems are solved.
The fact that the billionaires can no longer rule in the old way, is an indication of the strength of the revolutionary motion. It has now reached well into the middle class. Now it is up to the middle class, along with the working class, the proletariat, to overthrow this completely reactionary class of billionaires, the bourgeoisie, and crush them, under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
In order to stress that importance, perhaps it is best to give the opinion of Lenin, as he stated in Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder:
‘’The fundamental law of revolution, which has been confirmed by all revolutions and especially by all three Russian revolutions in the twentieth century, is as follows: for a revolution to take place it is not enough for the exploited and oppressed masses to realize the impossibility of living in the old way, and demand changes; for a revolution to take place it is essential that the exploiters should not be able to live and rule in the old way. It is only when the ‘lower classes’ do not want to live in the old way and the ‘upper classes’ cannot carry on in the old way that the revolution can triumph. This truth can be expressed in other words: revolution is impossible without a nation-wide crisis (affecting both the exploited and the exploiters). It follows that, for a revolution to take place, it is essential, first, that a majority of the workers (or at least a majority of the class-conscious, thinking, and politically active workers), should fully realize that revolution is necessary, and that they should be prepared to die for it; second, that the ruling classes should be going through a governmental crisis, which draws even the most backward masses into politics (symptomatic of any genuine revolution is a rapid, tenfold and even hundredfold increase in the size of the working and oppressed masses -hitherto apathetic- who are capable of waging the political struggle), weakens the government, and makes it possible for the revolutionaries to rapidly overthrow it.’’ (italics by Lenin)
Without doubt, the current situation satisfies the ‘’fundamental law of revolution’’. The ‘’upper class’’, in our case the billionaires, can no longer ‘’carry on in the old way’’. They are being forced to change their method or rule. As well, the working class and the middle class now ‘’realize the impossibility of living in the old way’’,
I include the middle class, for a reason. Donald Trump speaks for the billionaires, when he states that anyone who opposes him, is ‘’vermin’’, to be ‘’crushed’’. That includes most members of the middle class! Such people have every reason to be concerned! Trump means what he says! It is in the best interest of the middle class, to take part in the revolution!
For those who are reluctant to ‘’take the plunge’’, feel free to face reality. The billionaires have decided to place Trump in the White House, scrap the Constitution, and declare martial law. Anyone who opposes them is to be classified as ‘’vermin’’, and dealt with as such. Further, all banks but eight, and all businesses but five, are ”Too Small To Succeed”. All must collapse, their ‘’assets’’ to be picked up by the billionaires. The middle class is about to be wiped out!
That begs the question: What role should the middle class play in the approaching revolution?
There are a great many things which should be done, so it is difficult to determine the most important. But as Lenin stated in What Is To Be Done?, ‘’Every question ‘runs in a vicious circle’, because political life as a whole is an endless chain, consisting of an infinite number of links. The whole art of politics lies in finding and taking a firm a grip as we can of the link that is least likely to be struck from our hands, the one that is most important at the given moment, the one that most of all guarantees its possessor the possession of the whole chain’’.
In my opinion, the ‘’key link’’ now, is to prepare the working class, the proletariat, for the approaching revolution, and the subsequent Dictatorship of the Proletariat. There are several aspects to this preparation.
On the one hand, the level of awareness of the working class must be raised. They must become class conscious, aware of themselves as a class, with class interests that are diametrically opposed to that of the billionaires. As the working class is quite highly cultured, a great deal can be accomplished through social media. Workers should be encouraged to read the Essential Works of Lenin, also the Communist Manifesto, by Marx and Engels.
As well, marches and demonstrations should carry banners and posters which call for revolution, and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Protests can target certain key locations, such as banks and government agencies, homes of government officials, for example. Entertainers can compose songs to be sung at those locations. Make the protests entertaining! The best way to educate people, is through entertainment!
Middle class lawyers, preferably experts on Constitutional law, can prepare the arguments, to be presented before the Supreme Court, that the 2020 federal election was Unconstitutional, as it did not follow the procedure laid out in the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution. For that reason, Biden is a fraudulent President, and Harris is a fraudulent Vive President. Demand that the approaching 2024 federal election follow those procedures.
Those same legal experts can go on social media, and explain to the working people that the Twelfth Amendment makes no mention of any political party, of any popular vote, or of any District. Nor does it mention any ‘’running mate’’. Further, the states have no right to meddle in a federal election.
Bear in mind that the main thing is to raise the level of awareness of the working class. The success, or failure, of the court case, is of secondary significance.
All Americans, working class as well as middle class, should be encouraged to join the two mainstream political parties, preferably as card carrying members. Such members determine the candidates for all political offices. Insist that the new card carrying members select a candidate of their choice, for all political offices. But do not challenge any member of The Squad, or Senator Sanders.
The goal here is not to flood Washington, or any state capital, with Leftist people, although that would be a bonus. The goal is to raise the level of awareness of the working people, to get them politically active. In the political struggle, those who still have faith in the parliamentary system, will soon learn that the billionaires are in charge, and fully intend to remain in charge.
The middle class people can also be supremely helpful in organizing Councils, also known as Soviets, as well as taking part in the creation of a true Marxist Communist Party, one which calls for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. In both cases, a great deal of discretion is required.
At the time of the revolution, an insurrection will be required. This means that Councils are required to train a great many working people, before hand. Those with previous military or police training will prove to be most valuable. They can help train the ‘’raw recruits’’. All must be not only trained in the use of various weapons, but also equipped. As I have gone into this in a previous article, there is no need to repeat it here. I will only add that Councils should also assist the working people, any way possible. In this way, they are sure to earn the respect and support of all common people.
The creation of a true Communist Party requires even more discretion. The billionaires, reactionaries one and all, are ‘’taking to arms’’. They have decided to set up Trump as a dictator, so that citizens have no rights. That makes them more dangerous than ever. It also means the creation of a Communist Party, Dictatorship of the Proletariat, is even more urgent.
Middle class people have the computer skills to manage this, without personally coming together. They also have the capital to arm and train working people. Bear in mind that the billionaires have already decided to separate that capital from all others. Further bear in mind that any sacrifices made now, will not be forgotten. Middle class people have a bright future, but only under Scientific Socialism, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 