Now that the year is coming to a close, it is customary for the journalists to summarize the major events that happened, in the previous year, or at least the major political events. Then they tend to predict the political events, in the forthcoming year. As if they had the foggiest clue!
Yet one guest has distinguished herself, as she provided an analysis which is close to the truth. This is all the more remarkable, in that she was able to point out the class distinctions, without once mentioning the word class!
She was introduced as a ‘’political reporter’’, and a ‘’former Republican strategist and pollster’’. She is convinced that most Americans are of the opinion that ‘’voters admire the fighter mentality’’, that they are looking for someone ‘’to fight against a system that seem to be working against them’’, because it is a system that ‘’works for the elite, for the few, and not for the people, not for them’’.
My dear former Republican strategist, you are so right when you suggest that Americans ‘’admire the fighter mentality’’! No one ever suggested that Americans are a bunch of wimps! Pacifists, they are not! Your country was borne through revolution! It was the Revolutionary War against British colonialism, which gave birth to your country! Further, it was the American Civil War which destroyed the completely reactionary class of slave owners! Americans have a proud history of revolution!
You are also correct when you state that ‘’voters’’, or at least working class voters, are looking for ‘’someone’’, by whom you mean a leader(!), who is going to ‘’fight against a system that seems to be working against them’’.
It only ‘’seems’’ that way, because that is precisely the case! That ‘’system’’, to which you refer, is nothing other than the bourgeois state apparatus, which has been set up, with the express purpose of crushing the working class! The working class knows this, with their class instincts! They know that the ‘’system’’, truly ‘’works for the elite’’, those who were formerly referred to as the 1%, now referred to as the billionaires, technically referred to as the bourgeoisie. That is the class of people, whom you, ever so politely, refer to as the ‘’elite’’.
Dear lady, try to get it through that thick, middle class skull of yours, the fact that classes exist! What is more, since the time they came into existence, they have been in conflict! Class conflict! The capitalist class, the bourgeoisie, against the working class, the proletariat! Our interests are diametrically opposed. That which is in the best interest of one class, is in the worst interest of the other class.
No doubt, you are aware of the fact, that the revolutionary movement is becoming ever stronger. The ‘’class conflict’’ is approaching open ‘’class warfare’’. Perhaps you think that, as a member of the middle class, the petty bourgeois, you are in a position of ‘’safe neutrality’’. Such is hardly the case! There is no such ‘’position’’!
The billionaires recently declared war on the middle class! They plan to wipe out that class! All banks but eight, and all businesses but five, are Too Small To Succeed! As they collapse, the billionaires will pick up their ‘’assets’’. At the same time, the middle class people who have money in the bank, as well as shares in those businesses, stocks and bonds, are about to lose everything.
Remarkably enough, our current situation was anticipated by Marx and Engels. In the Communist Manifesto, they state: ‘’Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: bourgeois and proletariat.’’
As for the American working class, it may come as a complete surprise, to learn that Lenin had the utmost respect for revolutionary Americans! In fact, he wrote a letter to American workers, on August 22, 1918, less that a year after the Great Russian October Socialist Revolution. I have decided to reproduce parts of it here:
‘’The history of modern, civilized America opened with one of those great, really liberating, really revolutionary wars of which there have been so few….That was the war American people waged against the British robbers who oppressed America and held her in colonial slavery….since then, bourgeois civilizations has borne all its luxurious fruits. America has taken first place among the free and educated nations in level of development of the productive forces…At the same time, America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism. The American people, who set the world an example in waging a revolutionary war against feudal slavery, now find themselves in the latest, capitalist stage of wage-slavery to a handful of multimillionaires, and find themselves playing the role of hired thugs…. The American people have a revolutionary tradition that has been adopted by the best representatives of the American proletariat, who have repeatedly expressed their solidarity with us Bolsheviks….When we are confronted with the vastly greater task of overthrowing capitalist wage slavery, of overthrowing the rule of the bourgeoisie -now the representatives and defenders of the bourgeoisie, and also the reformist socialists who have been frightened by the bourgeoisie and are shunning the revolution, cannot and do not want to understand that civil war is legitimate and necessary.
‘’We know that fierce resistance to the socialist revolution on the part of the bourgeoisie is inevitable in all countries, and that this resistance will grow with the growth of this revolution. The proletariat will crush this resistance; during the struggle against the resisting bourgeoisie, it will finally mature for victory and for power….The revolution is developing in different countries in different forms and in different tempos (and it cannot be otherwise)….We are banking on the inevitability of the world revolution…and we know that revolutions are not made to order, or by agreement….and that before the world revolution breaks out, a number of separate revolutions may be defeated. …Slowly but surely the workers are adopting Communist, and Bolshevik tactics and marching towards the proletarian revolution, which alone is capable of saving dying culture and dying mankind.
‘’In short, we are invincible, because the world proletarian revolution is invincible.’’ (italics by Lenin)
The full letter is available on the internet, and all Americans, working class as well as middle class, are encouraged to read it.
Now to return to our current situation. The billionaires can no longer rule in the old way, that of the democratic republic, and have decided to change their method of rule. The new method of rule they have decided upon, is that of fascism, with Trump as the figurehead dictator.
This begs the question: How can they be stopped?
The Communist Manifesto provides us with the answer: ‘’But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons -the modern working class -the proletarians.’’
Marx made it clear, that the proletariat is the class which is destined to overthrow the capitalist class of billionaires. No other class can manage this.
Yet one major problem is that the working class, the proletariat, is not aware of itself as a class, with its own class interests. The conditions of life, of the working class, do not lead to that awareness.
This gives rise to considerable confusion, within the class conflict, which I can compare only to a boxing match, in which one boxer is blind folded. Of course, in my imaginary boxing match, the proletariat is the one who is blind folded, while the capitalists, the billionaires, are not.
As can be well imagined, the boxer who is blind folded strikes out in all directions, and on occasion, is able to land a lucky blow. By contrast, his opponent, who can see quite well, is able to land one blow after another.
This is admittedly a gross oversimplification, but it serves to drive home the point that the proletariat is at a distinct disadvantage, as it is not class conscious. The level of awareness, of the proletariat, must be raised to the level of Scientific Socialists.
This is to say that they must become aware -better yet, embrace!- the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. They must become aware that it is necessary to overthrow the ruling class of monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, and to smash the existing state apparatus, that which has been set up by the billionaires, as a means of crushing the working class. A new state apparatus must be set up, to crush the ‘’desperate and determined resistance of the billionaires’’, as they make every effort to ‘’restore their paradise lost’’. This new state apparatus is referred to as the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
Yet how are they to become aware of this? The revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin are taught -more accurately, distorted!- only in University. Very few working class people are able to attend University. The Communist Manifesto provides us with the answer:
‘’Entire sections of the ruling classes are, by the advance of industry, precipitated into the proletariat, or at least threatened in their conditions of existence. These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress’’.
I would suggest that this has been taking place for some considerable time now, and is accelerating. Recently, countless upper class people have been ruined, forced into bankruptcy and the ranks of the proletariat. They bring with them their awareness of the existence of classes, the class conflict, and the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin.
I would further suggest that the class struggle is approaching open class warfare. Or as the Communist Manifesto states:
‘’Finally, 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’’.
We are nearing the ‘’decisive hour’’. Not all members of the ‘’ruling class’’, the billionaires, are determined to establish a fascist republic! Some of them are opposed to this, with good reason! Under a state of fascism, even certain billionaires may be persecuted! Based on religious or ethnic backgrounds! It only makes sense for them -survival!- to ‘’cut themselves adrift’’, and ‘’join the revolutionary class’’, the proletariat.
In conclusion, I can only suggest that American workers, and middle class intellectuals, honour the memory of Lenin, by living up to his every expectation. Follow in the footsteps of your revolutionary ancestors!
The most important thing now, the ‘’key link’’, is to raise the level of awareness of the proletariat, in preparation for revolution, and the subsequent Dictatorship of the Proletariat. All actions we take now, must be made, with that goal in mind. This calls for a ‘’multi pronged’’ approach, involving various methods, some of which are legal, as well as others, which are illegal.
Use the judicial system! The very judicial system that the capitalists have set up to crush the lower classes, can be used against the capitalists! Experts on Constitutional law should challenge the Two Party System, on the grounds that it is Unconstitutional. It violates the Twelfth Amendment! A possible Supreme Court ruling, in our favour, can only be a bonus! The main thing is to expose the hypocrisy of the capitalist system.
Also on the ‘’legal front’’, encourage one and all to join the two mainstream political parties, preferably as card carrying members. The leaders of those common people can then run for any and all political offices. The membership of any particular political party, or a third party, is a matter of no consequence. Just be sure not to run against any ‘’Member of The Squad’’, or any ‘’Bernie Bro’’.
Allow me to stress the fact that our goal is to raise the level of awareness of the proletariat, to prepare them for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. In the process of running for office, of trying to ‘’change the system from within’’, working people will learn that the state apparatus has been set up to support the billionaires. In this way, they will become more class conscious.
Establish Councils and train the members for warfare! Arm and equip those workers! Prepare them for the insurrection! The more training they receive now, the more likely it is that the insurrection will not only succeed, but also be almost bloodless! As was the case of the Russian Great October Socialist Revolution!
Form a true Communist Party, Dictatorship of the Proletariat! This is a task for middle class intellectuals, perhaps with the assistance of advanced workers, as it is clearly beyond the ability of the proletariat.
Reach out to the less advanced workers, those who have been misled, generally referred to as ‘’MAGA’’ people! Prepare popular literature, and especially videos, for those workers! Whenever possible, have ‘’celebrities’’, especially young and beautiful ‘’Movie Stars’’, explain the class struggle, in terms they can understand. Such people listen to those Movie Stars! Be forceful! Bear in mind, that Americans ‘’admire the fighter mentality’’! Do not ‘’pull your punches’’!
Above all else, remember that, as Lenin said, ‘’We are invincible, because the world proletarian revolution is invincible’’.
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 