The ‘’protest movements’’ in North America and Europe, have spread to Asia. That is clear from the few reports we have received, mainly on social media, posted on the internet.
I placed the expression ‘’protest movements’’ in quotes, as that is the rather polite term the mainstream press uses, to describe the revolutionary motion that is taking place, and not just in North America. It is also happening in other parts of the world.
The focus of this article is on Asia, and China in particular. The people of China are once again in revolutionary motion, soon to re-establish the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. This calls for a little explanation, as the class struggle necessarily leads to revolution, and Scientific Socialism, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, as per Marx.
It was Lenin who helped to establish the first Scientific Socialist state, in Czarist Russia, in 1917. As the country was huge, and most of the common people were peasants, the method of rule became the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Poor Peasants.
After the death of Lenin, in 1924, it was Stalin who carried on the policies of Lenin. Under the Five Year Plans, that of organized production, the country quickly became highly industrialized, so that it was able to withstand the assault, in 1941, of Nazi Germany.
In other parts of the world, the revolutionary uprisings continued, so that in 1949, the Chinese Communists, under the leadership of Mao Zedong, defeated the completely reactionary Kuomintang, and established the People’s Republic of China, PRC.
Following in the footsteps of Lenin and the Soviet Union, they too, established a fine Scientific Socialist republic. As the population of China was predominantly peasant, they too set up a Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Poor Peasants.
Yet after the death of Stalin, in 1953, the Russian capitalist were able to return to power.
As the Soviet Union was so well respected, this came as a complete shock to all of the true Communists of the world, those who called for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the ‘’touchstone of a true Marxist’’, according to Lenin. No one was more surprised than the Chinese Communists, so that they were slow to respond. Yet respond they did! That response is most instructive!
They first conducted a proper criticism of Stalin. As I have documented this in a previous article, there is no need to repeat it here. They concluded that Stalin was a great Communist, but had made some serious mistakes. These mistakes had allowed the Russian capitalists to return to power.
I should add that it is only human to make mistakes. As Lenin stated, ‘’As long as those mistakes are minor, and quickly corrected, that is not a problem’’.
The Chinese Communists then took action. They launched the Great Chinese Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
By way of explanation, I should add that ‘’mass movements’’ happen under capitalism. I refer to these movements as an Act of God, while others may refer to it as an act of a Higher Power, HP. To each his own.
That is well known, and under capitalism, numerous government agencies focus on different ways to handle this. Brute force is their most common response, although more subtle responses include attempts at diversion, bribing the leaders, and infiltration of the protesters with agents.
It is also a fact that these mass movements are not limited to capitalism. They also take place under Scientific Socialism.
In 1960, one such mass movement started in China. The response of the Chinese Communist Party, was unprecedented. The common people, the workers and poor peasants of China, were given ‘’ free reign’’!
In particular, the Central Committee of the Communist Party, passed a decree, stating that except in cases of murder, rape and arson, on the part of the people taking part in these protests, the police were not to interfere!
For ten years, the Chinese people protested. Most of the people taking part in this revolution were young, mainly students, but not all. These protesters focused on those whom they perceived to be their class enemies, the capitalists, or at least agents of capitalism. Class enemies! They were convinced that the capitalists were hiding in various fields of culture, and they were right. The capitalists who were hiding in culture were rooted out. The revolutionaries went to the lengths of dragging those people out of their places of business, and even their homes, and subjected them to public ridicule. This is referred to as ‘’re-education’’.
The bourgeois scholars are horrified that these capitalists were denied ‘’legal representation’’. True! They were not allowed to hide behind high priced lawyers! They were forced to answer to the common people, the workers and poor peasants! In this way, various fields of culture were cleansed of capitalists.
So how is it that the Chinese capitalists were able to return to power, after the death of Mao?
As I have documented in a previous article, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution did not go far enough. True, the capitalists who were hiding in culture were cleansed. It is also true that other capitalists were ‘’hiding in plain sight’’, in various fields of science! There was no Great Proletarian Scientific Revolution!
This in no way changes the fact that the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, of the ‘’sixties’’, which means the nineteen sixties, set the standard, for the proper application of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
Just as in the Soviet Union, the capitalists were waiting, for an opportune time to strike. That time came at the death of Mao.
The fact is that the Chinese capitalists had merely ‘’bided their time’’, plotting and scheming, waiting for a moment to strike. The agents of the capitalists were also placed in key positions of authority. This is to say that they had infiltrated the Communist Party.
No doubt, many people may think that it is rather ‘’strange’’, to say the least, to think that capitalists would even consider joining any Communist Party. In fact, it is not strange at all.
Consider the fact that a small time thief became famous, when he answered a simple question, asked by a journalist. The question was, ‘’Why do you rob banks’’? His answer was, ‘’Because that is where the money is’’.
If we think of money as power, which is close to the fact of the matter, then it follows that the capitalists will ‘’go for the money’’!
After the revolution, under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the power will be within the Communist Party. So it stands to reason that the capitalists will make every effort to infiltrate the Communist Party. Perhaps more accurately, they will sends their agents, their belly crawling boot lickers, into the Party.
Sadly, there is no shortage of ‘’traitors and renegades’’, as Lenin refers to them, within the working class.
Incidentally, as for those who may object that such self debasement, on the part of these workers, class traitors, gains them nothing, I can only respond that you are right. Yet that does not stop them! Not only are such class traitors contemptible! They are also stupid!
Just as we find these ‘’class traitors and renegades’’ under capitalism, so too, we can expect to find them under Scientific Socialism. They will continue to serve the capitalists, making every effort to return the billionaires to power.
Yet as Mao stated, shortly before his death, the Cultural Revolution has succeeded in ”schooling the masses”, the common people of China, in the class struggle. For that reason, he was convinced that a capitalist restoration of power, in China, could not last long. At worst, a few decades.
That which Mao feared the most, took place immediately after his death. Just as the Russian capitalists were able to restore capitalism, in Russia, after the death of Stalin, so too, the Chinese Communists were able to restore capitalism in China.
The lesson here is that, after the successful proletarian revolution, after the proletariat seizes power, after the proletariat establishes Scientific Socialism, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, there remains the considerable problem of maintaining that power.
It was Lenin who foresaw this difficulty, and he pointed it out quite clearly, in State and Revolution: ‘’The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the organization of the vanguard of the oppressed as the ruling class for the purpose of crushing the oppressors, cannot result merely in an expansion of democracy. Simultaneously with an immense expansion of democracy which for for the first time becomes democracy for the poor, democracy for the people, and not democracy for the rich, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat imposes a series of restrictions on the freedom of the oppressors, the exploiters, the capitalists. We must crush them in order to free humanity from wage-slavery; their resistance must be broken by force; it is clear that where there is suppression there is also violence, there is no freedom, no democracy’’. (italics by Lenin)
It is clear that after the revolution, after the working class establishes Scientific Socialism, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, it is still necessary to crush the capitalists, the billionaires, as they make every effort to ‘’restore their paradise lost’’. Lenin refers to this as a ‘’series of restrictions on the freedom of the exploiters’’, we must ‘’crush them…by force’’. We must also stress that, for the capitalists, ‘’there is no freedom, no democracy’’.
Truly, after the revolution, the billionaires are not about to ‘’resign themselves to their fate’’. Indeed, their resistance will be ‘’increased ten fold’’, according to Lenin.
We now have experience, which reveal the tactics the capitalists have used, in order to return to power, in Russia and China. Clearly, they were not sufficiently crushed, under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. We must learn from the mistakes of our great revolutionary ancestors. We must not repeat those mistakes!
A Great Proletarian Scientific Revolution is urgently required! There is no need to wait for the successful conclusion of a Scientific Socialist revolution! In both North America and Europe, common people, by whom I mean both workers and farmers, are quite capable of challenging various ‘’sacred’’ scientific theories! Give the capitalists, the billionaires, a little taste of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!
Feel free to prove the existence of walking whales – Nessie! Of huge flying reptiles – Dragons! Of giant hairy people – Sasquatch! Show the billionaires what working people can do!
The directions for locating these huge animals, among others, I have documented in other writings. As the common people are now in revolutionary motion, such discoveries can be seen as part of a Proletarian Scientific Revolution.
Now to return to the situation in China.
There can be no doubt, that the suffering of the working people, has reached horrendous proportions. There is massive unemployment and homelessness, with business and bank closures. Most depositors have lost all their money. Now protests are sweeping the country. This is the very definition of a revolutionary situation!
The few reports we receive, through social media, indicate that the country is now in the midst of a depression. Of course, the economists dispute this, as they have their own definition of a depression.
By contrast, the working people are will aware of the fact that in a depression, the prices of all goods drops dramatically. Those who have survived the Great Depression of the nineteen thirties, have told us, their children and grand children. Not that a drop in prices changes anything, as almost no one is working, so that almost no one has any money!
Now in China, the economists are complaining of ‘’deflation’’, in that prices of goods are dropping. Depression! The capitalists want inflation, of at least two or three percent, so that profits soar. So sad!
As it has been a few decades, it is reasonable to assume that those who are veterans of the Cultural Revolution, are sharing that experience, with the younger generation.
There are also reports of ‘’Maoists’’ on websites, openly calling for revolution. We can only hope that they are true Communists, calling for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
We can also hope that the most essential works of Lenin, such as State and Revolution, are available on the internet, in Chinese. If not, then perhaps those who are fluent in English can download those works, and translate them into Chinese.
We will know that the true Communists are getting their message across, when the banners read:
Scientific Socialism
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Workers of the World, Unite!
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 