All of the mainstream news outlets were following the first trial of Donald Trump. No cameras were allowed inside the courtroom, but journalists were allowed to enter. These journalists were able to send ”emails” to their colleagues, which documented each event, as the trial took place. This allowed other journalists, those who were outside the courtroom, to comment upon the court proceedings.
The jury deliberated a mere few hours, before delivering a verdict, concerning all thirty four felony charges. As ”Juror Number One” read the decision they had arrived at, concerning each charge, that decision was emailed to the journalists outside the courtroom. Their decision was guilty on all charges.
On behalf of one mainstream news outlet, there was a team of no less than five journalists, who reported these guilty verdicts, as they were read out to the judge. Not that it takes five people to report the news. But then, their main task was not so much reporting of the news, but that of giving the news a ”proper slant”.
As loyal and dedicated servants of the ruling class of monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, it was their unofficial duty, to ”spin” the news, in a manner which best serves that class.
It was the ”News Anchor” who took the lead, in giving the proper bourgeois response to this conviction of a former President, and possibly future President. As she stated:
”This is a definitive, irreducible verdict. He can appeal, I am sure he will appeal, but this is everything the prosecution asked for. From a jury that by all accounts took this thing very, very seriously. We counted the deliberation hours down here. The test for us, as a country, is not about what happens on appeal, and it is not about what happens in sentencing. The test for us now as a country is whether or not this former president and his allies will have succeeded in trying to undermine the rule of law, so that people reject this as a legitimate function of the rule of law in our country. They have tried to de legitimize this judge, they have tried to de legitimize this court, they have tried to de legitimize these proceedings, they have even tried to de legitimize the laws that he was tried under. These efforts are the task that we now have as a country. The people involved in bringing this case, have been threatened and intimidated and had everything brought to bear against them, in a way that was designed to de legitimize this process, in the eyes of the American people. It is now in the hands of the American people to decide who will accept these efforts, or whether we will stand by the rule of law…We now know, as a country, what it is to put a former president on trial, and to see that trial to fruition.” (my italics)
I chose to reproduce this speech, in its entirety, for a reason. That reason is not to bore the reader, not to put you to sleep, but to let people know that I am not quoting out of context. The key details I have placed in italics.
On several occasions, she made reference to ”us”, or ”we”, ”as a country”. It is clear that she was referring to all Americans, of all classes. Yet she made no reference to classes! As if classes do not exist! Or if they exist, all classes are united, in a single country! Classes certainly exist, and in a single country, but that country is absolutely not united!
She also made reference to the ”allies” of Trump. Another evasion on the subject of classes! Those ”allies” are nothing other than the members of his class, the monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, as well as their loyal and devoted servants.
As for those who may object, quite reasonably, that this journalist is also a loyal and devoted servant of that same class of monopoly capitalists, I can only respond that you are right. The bourgeoisie is divided! The revolutionary uprising of the working class, the proletariat, has given rise to a crisis in capitalism, so that the ruling class of billionaires have to change their method of rule! They just cannot agree upon that precise change!
These are facts, just as it is a fact that America has a proud history of revolution. Just as the existence of classes is denied, so too that revolutionary history is also denied.
In August of 1918, at a time which is very similar to this, Lenin wrote a letter to American workers. Bear in mind that at that time, Communists were referred to as Bolsheviks:
”The history of modern, civilized America opened with one of those great, really liberating, really revolutionary wars, of which there have been so few, compared to the vast number of wars of conquest which, like the present imperialist war, were caused by squabbles among kings, landowners or capitalists, over the division of surplus lands or ill gotten gains. That was the war the American people waged against the British robbers who oppressed America and held her in colonial slavery, in the same way as these ‘civilized’ bloodsuckers are still oppressing and holding in colonial slavery hundreds of millions of people in India, Egypt and all parts of the world.
”About 150 years have passed since then. Bourgeois civilization has borne all its luxurious fruits. America has taken first place among the free and civilized nations in level of development of the productive forces of collective human endeavour, in the utilization of machinery and of all the wonders of modern engineering. At the same time, America has become one of the foremost countries, in regard to depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multi millionaires 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 multi millionaires, and find themselves playing the role of hired thugs who, for the benefit of wealthy scoundrels, throttled the Philippines in 1898, on the pretext of ‘liberating’ them, and are throttling the Russian Socialist Republic in 1918, on the pretext of ‘protecting’ it from the Germans. …
”The American multimillionaires were perhaps, richest of all, and geographically the most secure. They have profited more than all the rest. They have converted all, even the richest, countries into their tributaries. They have grabbed hundreds of billions of dollars. And every dollar is sullied with filth: the filth of the secret treaties between Britain and her ‘allies’, between Germany and her vassals, treaties for the division of the spoils, treaties of mutual ‘aid’ for oppressing the workers and persecuting the international socialists. Every dollar is sullied with the filth of ‘profitable’ war contracts, which in every country make the rich richer and the poor poorer.…
”In October 1917, after the Russian workers had overthrown their imperialist government, the Soviet government, the government of the revolutionary workers and peasants, openly proposed a just peace, a peace without annexations or indemnities, a peace that fully guaranteed equal rights to all nations- and it proposed such a peace to all the belligerent countries.
”It was the Anglo- French and the American bourgeoisie who refused to accept our proposal; it was they who even refused to talk to us about a general peace! It was they who betrayed the interests of all nations; it was they who prolonged the imperialist slaughter!
”It was they who, banking on the possibility of dragging Russia back into the imperialist war, refused to take part in the peace negotiations, and thereby gave a free hand to the no less predatory German capitalists, who imposed the annexationist and harsh Brest Peace upon Russia!
”It is difficult to imagine anything more disgusting than the hypocrisy, with which the Anglo- French and American bourgeoisie are now ‘blaming’ us for the Brest Peace Treaty. The very capitalists of those countries, which could have turned the Brest negotiations into general negotiations for a general peace, are now our ‘accusers’. The Anglo- French imperialist vultures, who have profited from the plunder of colonies and the slaughter of nations, have prolonged the war for nearly a whole year after Brest, and yet they ‘accuse’ us, the Bolsheviks, who proposed a just peace to all countries, they accuse us, who tore up, published and exposed to public disgrace the secret, criminal treaties, concluded between the ex Czar and the Anglo- French capitalists.…
”A real socialist would not fail to understand, that for the sake of achieving victory over the bourgeoisie, for the sake of power passing to the workers, for the sake of starting the world proletariat revolution, we cannot and must not hesitate to make the heaviest sacrifices, including the sacrifice of part of our territory, the sacrifice of heavy defeats at the hands of imperialism. A real socialist would have proved by deeds his willingness for ‘his’ country to make the greatest sacrifice, to give a real push forward to the cause of the socialist revolution.” (italics by Lenin)
Allow me to stress the fact that, ”America opened with one of those great, really liberating, really revolutionary wars”. Allow me to also stress the fact that the American people ”set the world an example in waging a revolutionary war against feudal slavery”, according to Lenin. Make no mistake, coming from Lenin, that is high praise! The American working people have a revolutionary history, of which they have every reason to be proud!
Now is the time to build upon that rich revolutionary history! Now is the time for another revolution! Now is not the time to babble such nonsense as a ”test for us as a country”! Now is the time to overthrow the monopoly capitalist class of billionaires! Now is the time to smash the existing state apparatus, and replace that apparatus with the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!
Lenin had a few more words to say, further in his article, concerning the American proletariat, not the country of America!
”The American people have a revolutionary tradition, which has been adopted by the best representatives of the American proletariat, who have repeatedly expressed their complete solidarity with us Bolsheviks. That tradition is the war of liberation against the British in the eighteenth century, and the Civil War in the nineteenth century. In some respects, if we only take into consideration the ‘destruction’ of some branches of industry, and of the national economy, America in 1870 was behind 1860. But what a pendant, what an idiot would anyone be, to deny on these grounds the immense, world historic, progressive and revolutionary significance of the American Civil War of 1863- 65!
”The representatives of the bourgeoisie understand that for the sake of overthrowing Negro slavery, of overthrowing the rule of the slaveowners, it was worth letting the country go through years of civil war, through the abysmal ruin, destruction and terror that accompany every war. But now, 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 necessary and legitimate.
”The American workers will not follow the bourgeoisie. They will be with us, for civil war against the bourgeoisie. The whole history of the world and of the American labour movement strengthens my conviction that this is so.”
This is followed by his response to the accusation that Communists have been accused of resorting to methods of terror. Lenin:
”Terror was just and legitimate when the bourgeoisie resorted to it for their own benefit against feudalism. Terror became monstrous and criminal when the workers and poor peasants dared to use it against the bourgeoisie! Terror was just and legitimate when used for the purpose of substituting one exploiting minority for another exploiting minority. Terror became monstrous and criminal when it began to be used for the purpose of overthrowing every exploiting minority, to be used in the interests of the vast majority, in the interests of the proletariat and semi- proletariat, the working class and the poor peasants!” (italics by Lenin)
In this passage, Lenin draws a clear distinction between individual acts of terror, which are to be condemned, and state terror, in which a class of people, and in particular, the proletariat, must exercise Dictatorship over the bourgeoisie. After the socialist revolution, after the monopoly capitalists are overthrown, after the existing state apparatus is smashed, and replaced with a new state apparatus, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, then terror must be used, against that same class of monopoly capitalists. Otherwise, they will return to power, as happened in the Soviet Union and in China.
Lenin went on to say:
”Now, amidst the horrors of the imperialist war, the proletariat is receiving a most vivid and striking illustration of the great truth taught by all revolutions and bequeathed to the workers by their best teachers, the founders of modern socialism. This truth is that no revolution can be successful unless the resistance of the exploiters is crushed. When we, the workers and toiling peasants, captured state power, it became our duty to crush the resistance of the exploiters. We are proud we have been doing this. We regret we are not doing it with sufficient firmness and determination.
”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.…
”We know that help from you will probably not come soon, Comrade American workers, for the revolution is developing in different countries, in different forms, and at different tempos (and it cannot be otherwise). We know that although the European revolution has been maturing very rapidly lately, it may, after all, not flare up within the next few weeks. We are banking on the inevitability of the world revolution, but this does not mean that we are such fools as to bank on the revolution inevitably coming on a definite and early date. We have seen two great revolutions in our country, 1905 and 1917, and we know revolutions are not made to order, or by agreement. We know that circumstances brought our Russian detachment, of the socialist proletariat, to the fore, not because of our merits, but because of the exceptional backwardness of Russia, and that before the world revolution breaks out, a number of separate revolutions, may be defeated.
”In spite of this, we are firmly convinced that we are invincible, because the spirit of mankind will not be broken by the imperialist slaughter. Mankind will vanquish it. And the first country to break the convict chains, of the imperialist war, was our country. We sustained enormously heavy casualties in the struggle to break these chains, but we broke them. We are free from imperialist dependence, we have raised the banner of struggle for the complete overthrow of imperialism, for the whole world to see.
”We are now, as it were, in a besieged fortress, waiting for the other detachments of the world socialist revolution to come to our relief. These detachments exist, they are more numerous than ours, they are maturing, growing, gaining more strength the longer the brutalities of imperialism continue. The workers are breaking away from their social traitors…Slowly but surely the workers are adopting Communist, Bolshevik tactics and are marching towards proletariat 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)
Now it is up to us, the modern day workers and farmers, to disregard this bourgeois nonsense, that of ”being tested, as a country”.
The common people of Russia, proletarians and poor peasants, ”blazed the trail” for the rest of us. They did this at the expense of ”enormously heavy casualties”, but they did it. Now it is up to us, the modern day workers and farmers, to honour their memory, by following the trail that they blazed, by following in their footsteps.
The World Proletarian Revolution is on the horizon. Monopoly capitalism is about to be crushed, and replaced with World Scientific Socialism.
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 