A great many journalists, including those who work for the main stream media, are now expressing deep concern over the plans of the multi billionaires, to establish a fascist dictatorship in the United States.
Incidentally, those who work for the mainstream media, are referred to as ‘’bourgeois journalists’’, as the billionaires own those news outlets. For that reason, those journalists have to ‘’slant’’ the reporting, in their favour.
They frequently manage this, by first presenting the news, and then conducting an interview, with an ‘’expert’’ on the subject. These ‘’experts’’ then express their opinion, concerning the news which was just reported. All too often, this opinion is in direct contradiction to the facts. The idea is to confuse viewers. This is known as ‘’spinning’’ the news.
In contrast to the bourgeois journalists, there are journalists who work for the independent media. These journalists were formerly referred to as ‘’underground’’ journalists, as that was in the days before the internet. Now such people are referred to as ‘’Leftist’’ journalists. Their reports tend to be more accurate, certainly not biased towards the billionaires. Yet their analysis too, can be faulty, as many of them are either not aware of the scientific theories of Marx and Lenin, or disagree with those theories.
These revolutionary theories are referred to as ‘’Scientific Socialism’’. As so many working class people are just now becoming politically active, they deserve a little explanation. No doubt, middle class readers will find this tiresome, but my main concern is with the proletariat. After all, the success of the revolution, -as well as the defeat of the fascists!- depends upon the proletariat!
Our current system of capitalism, is rather recent. It came into existence with the industrial revolution, which took place between 1720 and 1760, in Great Britain, and quickly spread around the world. Before that time, everything was made by hand. Afterwards, hand crafted items became very rare and expensive, as they are now. A specialty product!
Historians are correct, when they state that the industrial revolution was the greatest thing to happen to humanity, since the domestication of plants and animals! It was absolutely revolutionary!
This also gave rise to two new classes. The ‘’burghers’’ of the time, saw an opportunity to invest their money in factories, mills, mines and other ‘’means of production’’, as well as banks and other ‘’financial institutions’’, and make some ‘’serious money’’, as they phrase it. At the same time, they invested in railroads and shipping lines, which they refer to as the ‘’means of transportation’’, so that they can get the ‘’raw materials’’ to the ‘’point of production’’, as well as the ‘’finished product’’, to market.
This is part of the stilted jargon the bourgeois economists use. The members of the working class, or at least the most advanced members to the working class, must learn to understand this jargon.
In the process, a remarkable transformation took place. The money, which the burgers invested, became known as ‘’capital’’, and they became known as ‘’capitalists’’. The name burgher became corrupted, into the name ‘’bourgeois’’. The most wealthy of the bourgeois, became known as the ‘’bourgeoisie’’. For that reason, the billionaires of today, are technically referred to as the bourgeoisie.
Yet no class can live in isolation. This is to say that a class of slave owners requires a corresponding class of slaves, while a class of nobility requires a corresponding class of ‘’commoners’’, mainly peasants. The newly created class of bourgeois, or capitalists, needs a corresponding class of workers, or ‘’proletarians’’, those who sell themselves, by the hour.
The bourgeois, or capitalists, needed workers, or proletarians, to run their machines. For that reason, they generally hired peasants, commonly referred to as farmers. In this manner, the members of the class of peasants, became transformed into a class of proletarians.
As the bourgeois became ever more wealthy, they decimated the class of peasants, the very class the nobility depended upon, for their wealth and power. The more wealthy the capitalists became, the more impoverished the nobility became.
This was not at all what the bourgeois had in mind! Their greatest ambition in life, was to join the nobility! Yet they accomplished precisely the opposite! They destroyed the nobility!
It is instructive to note that the earliest plans, of this newly created class of capitalists, did not work out.
I use this as an example of changes in methods of production, which lead to events, including the creation and destruction of different classes, which are beyond the control of ‘’mere mortals’’.
Even the bourgeois economists could not explain how the capitalists were making their money. But then, the capitalists did not care! They only cared about their profit, or ’’bottom line’’, as they referred to it. That is true to this day.
No one could understand this, except Karl Marx! It was Marx who conducted a thorough, scientific examination of this newly created system of capitalism. He and Engels published those findings, in that which they referred to as the Communist Manifesto.
Further, in a letter, which Marx wrote, in 1852:
“And now as to myself, no credit is due to me for discovering the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them. Long before me bourgeois historians had described the historical development of this class struggle and bourgeois economists, the economic anatomy of classes. What I did that was new was to prove: (1) that the existence of classes is only bound up with the particular, historical phases in the development of production, (2) that the class struggle necessarily leads to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, (3) that this dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.”
It is important to bear in mind that this most important theory, that ‘’the class struggle necessarily leads to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat’’, was proven by Marx, as early as 1852!
Lenin refers to this theory, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, as the ‘’touchstone of a true Marxist’’! It is the worst nightmare of every billionaire! With good reason! No one wants to lower their standard of living! The billionaires are no exception! The very idea of losing all their wealth, of being ‘’degraded’’, forced to ‘’stoop’’ to manual labour, is too terrible for words! They literally cannot imagine this!
Yet the billionaires, as well as almost all members of the upper middle class, are well aware of this theory. The reason for this is quite simple. The parents, among the upper classes, make sure that their children attend University. It is only in University that the students are exposed to the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin.
This creates a little problem for certain of the parents, in that some of their children may not score top marks on the college entrance examinations. While money may not ‘’buy happiness’’, it certainly buys almost everything else! That includes admission to the finest Universities in the country.
This became public knowledge recently, amid a recent scandal, which involved upper middle class parents. They were caught, paying someone to take the admission examinations, on behalf of their children. This made headlines, if only because the parents were celebrities! Movie stars! Famous actors!
The reason I mention this, is to drive home the point that celebrities have power! Such people may be professional athletes, but the vast majority are ‘’Hollywood Movie Stars’’! The more attractive, the more famous, the more powerful!
As for those who may object -quite reasonably!- that this makes absolutely no sense, I can only respond, that it does not have to make sense! This is just the way it is! Face it! Use it!
Working class people, common people, love certain actors! Or actresses, if you want to be persnippity about it! We can use this to our advantage!
We know, for a fact, that certain Hollywood celebrities are at least sympathetic towards socialism. This is commonly referred to as being ‘’Leftist’’. The reason we know this, is because some of them have been arrested, while exercising their democratic right to peaceful protest.
May I suggest, to those celebrities, that there is more than one way to protest! Learn from previous experience! In the nineteen sixties, the country was also experiencing revolutionary motion. A number of Hollywood writers, no doubt ‘’Leftists’’, came up with the idea of a ‘’sitcom’’, a weekly television show, which exposed the class distinctions. This show was exceptionally popular. It was titled The Beverly Hillbillies.
That show was wildly successful! Working people loved it! The bourgeois critics hated that show, every bit as passionately as the working people loved it! The viewers could relate to the Hillbilly Clampetts, with their simple life style, as opposed to their neighbours, the multi millionaire bankers.
To all Leftist celebrities, whether Hollywood ‘’Movie Stars’’ or otherwise, face the fact that you have power! It is dishonest to deny this fact. Spare all of us the false humility! Instead, use this power, in the service of the working class. The more fans you have, the greater the power. All of those fans will pay strict attention to whatever you say!
It is also a fact that we do not get to choose the people, with whom we work. We are stuck with them. Yet on our own time, we are free to associate with whomever we want!
For that reason, it is safe to assume that Leftist celebrities tend to ‘’buddy up’’, with other Leftist people. These may include other celebrities, as well as writers. It is the writers who are crucial to the success of any presentation. The ‘’delivery’’ is critical!
The level of awareness of the working class, the proletariat, has to be raised! Certain expressions, such as Socialist Revolution, Soviet Power, Scientific Socialism and Dictatorship of the Proletariat, must become common place! Who better to take part in raising that level of awareness, than the Hollywood Movie Stars? The MAGA people listen to Trump, because he is a celebrity. Those same people will listen to other Hollywood celebrities, Movie Stars! Especially if those Movie Stars are most beautiful and charming! There is no shortage of Leftist people, in Hollywood, who fit that description!
For the benefit of Leftist people who think that socialism is merely a good idea, but not practical, may I suggest that you face the facts.
Over the years, a great many well meaning individuals, have made countless attempts to set up socialist societies, under capitalism. All have ended in failure. Countless others have come out with ‘’alternative’’ theories of socialism. These are all referred to as ‘’utopian socialism’’, as they are not based on the Revolutionary theories, of Marx and Lenin.
The only true Revolutionary theories, are the Scientific Socialist theories of Marx and Lenin. They are based on facts, not conjecture. The experience of the successful Russian Socialist Revolution, which gave birth to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, as well as the successful Chinese Revolution, proved the correctness of those theories.
Capitalism has been restored in both of those formerly socialist countries. The reason is that after every Socialist Revolution, classes continue to exist, and the billionaires make a supreme effort to restore their ‘’paradise lost’’. That is the reason they have to be crushed, under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
In the case of the Soviet Union, as well as China, after the Socialist Revolution, the capitalists were not properly crushed, at least not with sufficient enthusiasm. A fundamental tenet of Marx, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, was not properly carried out!
The leaders of those formerly socialist countries, Stalin and Mao, made mistakes, which I have covered elsewhere. There is no need to repeat it here. Suffice it to say that it is up to us to honour the memory, of our heroic ancestors, those great Revolutionaries, by learning from their mistakes.
Now to return to the subject of capitalism. At first, capitalism played a most revolutionary role. Of that, there can be no doubt! This is elaborated quite clearly, in the Communist Manifesto. But then, that was in the days of competitive capitalism.
That changed, quite dramatically, around the beginning of the Twentieth Century. At that point, capitalism reached the stage of monopoly. Instead of competition between capitalists, within each branch of industry, capitalists came together and agreed to set prices. As there is no competition, capitalism stagnated, as there are almost no great inventions. Monopoly stifles inventions, as well as competition.
Of course, there were other changes which took place, such as the export of capital, and not just goods. Once again, the capitalists knew that something had changed. Not that they cared! They just knew that they were making huge profits, and that was their only concern. They merely referred to this new state of monopoly capitalism as ‘’imperialism’’.
It was Lenin, following in the footsteps of Marx, who conducted a proper scientific examination of monopoly capitalism, also known as imperialism, and published his findings in, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. In that work, he gave a brief definition of imperialism:
‘’Without forgetting the conditional and relative value of all definitions in general, which can never embrace all the concatenations of a phenomenon in its full development, we must give a definition of imperialism that will include the following five of its basic features:
- ‘’the concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life;
- ‘’merging of bank capital with industrial capital, and the creation, on the basis of this “finance capital,” of a financial oligarchy;
- ‘’the export of capital as distinguished from the export of commodities acquires exceptional importance;
- ‘’the formation of international monopolist capitalist associations which share the world among themselves and
- ‘’the territorial division of the whole world among the biggest capitalist powers is completed. Imperialism is capitalism at that stage of development at which the dominance of monopolies and finance capital is established; in which the export of capital has acquired pronounced importance; in which the division of the world among the international trusts has begun, in which the division of all territories of the globe among the biggest capitalist powers has been completed.’’
In that same article, he went on to say that ‘’the political features of imperialism are reaction all along the line’’.
Our current crop of American imperialists, have found themselves ‘’on the horns of a dilemma’’. They have reached a state of crisis. Their ‘’time honoured’’ method of rule, the ‘’Two Party System’’, is no longer working. For that reason, they are attempting to change their method of rule. The new method of rule, which they have decided upon, is that of fascism.
Under fascism, the precise dictator is of little consequence. He -or she!- is a mere figurehead. The important thing is that this individual serve the imperialists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie.
The imperialists must be stopped! In the past, the fascists of two highly industrialized countries, Germany and Italy, were successful! That proves it can be done! Now is not the time to be complacent! Now is the time for action!
Even though a great many things should be done, it is necessary to focus on that which Lenin refers to as the ‘’key link’’:
‘’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 as 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.’’
As is well known, it is my contention that the current ‘’key link’’, is to raise the level of awareness of the working class, so that at least the most advanced strata of the proletariat, embraces Scientific Socialism, Soviet (Council) Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
The problem is that the working class is not aware of itself as a class, complete with its own class interests. That awareness must come to the working class, from an outside source. That outside source is middle class intellectuals.
The Communist Manifesto provides for this ‘’outside source’’, which is destined to bring the class awareness to the working class:
‘’In times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the progress 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. Just as, therefore, at an earlier period, a section of the nobility went over to the bourgeoisie, so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat, and in particular, a portion of the bourgeois ideologists, who have raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole.’’
Without doubt, the ‘’class struggle’’ is indeed ‘’near the decisive hour’’. The ‘’’process of dissolution’’ going on within the ‘’whole range of old society’’, is now sharp and clear! Now we can expect a ‘’small section of the ruling class’’, a ‘’portion of the bourgeois ideologists’’, to ‘’go over to the proletariat’’. They will bring with them the awareness of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin.
It is entirely possible that ‘’a small section of the ruling class’’ has already ‘’cut itself adrift’’, and may even be preparing to ‘’join the revolutionary class’’. That ‘’small section’’ may include the members of the Americans For Prosperity Action Group, as they have endorsed Nikki Haley, as the presidential candidate of their choice, for the Republican Party.
Even though at least one billionaire is backing this Group, it is entirely possible that he, and a few others, have decided to oppose the plans of the ruling class of billionaires, to form a fascist state.
Perhaps they are serious, when they state that they plan to ‘’turn the page on the current political era’’. They go on to state that, ‘’Trump and Biden had their chance, they can’t fix what is broken, it’s our time to choose a new leader who will unite our Party, our Nation’’.
Either way, it is now necessary for ‘’a portion of the bourgeois ideologists, who have raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole’’, to ‘’go over to the proletariat’’.
It is very likely that all Leftist Hollywood ‘’Movie Star’’ celebrities, as well as writers, have a University education, and are aware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. As the Universities are careful to teach only the bourgeois distortions of those theories, it is also likely that they are at best, deeply skeptical.
May I suggest that all middle class intellectuals, and not just the Hollywood celebrities, read the essential works of Marx and Lenin, with an open mind. Keep the thought uppermost in mind, that the ruling class of billionaires are in the process of setting up a fascist society, preferably with Trump as the figurehead dictator. It is up to the working class, the proletariat, to stop them.
What better way to oppose our class enemies, the billionaires, than with their own weapons? Just as the Socialist Soviet Union opposed the Nazi Blitzkrieg, at the time of the Great Patriotic War, with their own Soviet Blitzkrieg, so too I am suggesting that we oppose the Hollywood celebrity of the billionaires, in the form of Trump, with our own celebrity, or celebrities, preferably one far more charming and beautiful.
Without doubt, the MAGA people will listen to this lady Movie Star! At least, I hope it is a lady! Better yet, a group of lady Movie Stars! The more the merrier! As well as a few guy -Hunk!- Movie Stars!
Although I write this in jest, the fact remains that it is true! The threat is real, and the solution, or at least part of the solution, lies with the Hollywood Movie Stars. All working people, including the less advanced, the MAGA people, will listen closely to that which the Movie Stars say. Strange but true.
The Hollywood Leftist writers, working behind the scenes, can prepare the script, which is sure to be entertaining, written in a popular manner. Then the Hollywood ‘’Movie Stars’’ can make the presentation. The common people, including MAGA, will love this!
In conclusion, it is clear that the ruling class of billionaires is currently preparing to set up a fascist dictatorship, with Trump as the figurehead dictator. There is strong support for this, among the less advanced strata of the working class, the MAGA people. We have got to raise their level of awareness. The best way to do this is through the use of celebrities, preferably Hollywood Movie Stars.
As soon as the vast majority of working people reject MAGA, and endorse Scientific Socialism, Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, then the threat of fascism will be neutralized, and the success of the next American Revolution, will be assured.
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 