Donald Trump recently gave a campaign speech, in West Palm Beach, Florida, in which he did something highly unusual, completely unexpected, and rather strange. Trump broke with his long standing tradition of ‘’speaking lies, only lies, and nothing but lies’’. Remarkably enough -even though his lips were moving!- he actually spoke the truth! This is what he said:
‘’You have to get out and vote. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four years, it will be fixed. You won’t have to vote anymore. In four years, you won’t have to vote again’’.
We can only express our most sincere, heartfelt gratitude to this former President, and current candidate for the office of President, this multi billionaire, this monopoly capitalist, this member of the class of people, referred to as the bourgeoisie. Trump has just ‘’tipped his hand’’, revealed his plan to set himself up as ‘’Dictator, On Day One’’, so that American voters will be ‘’relieved of the burden’’ of voting! But first they have to ‘’get out and vote’’, just ‘’one more time’’!
That ‘’one more time’’ is a reference to the upcoming ‘’November vote’’, the ‘’popular vote for the Presidency’’. A vote which is completely fraudulent! Unconstitutional!
It is to the credit of a certain ‘’Leftist’’ journalist, that he ‘’broke this story’’. It is available, on the internet, under the title ‘’President Trump Casts Vision For ’24 And Beyond’’.
As this Leftist journalist pointed out, if Trump wins the 2024 ‘’Presidential election’’, he will ‘’set himself up as Dictator On Day One”, deport immigrants en masse, strip citizenship from those who burn flags, which falls under the First Amendment right to free speech… Donald Trump will end our democracy if he gets back into power’’.
For purposes of clarification, we should mention that there is no law against burning the American flag, as long as it belongs to the individual. Yet it should be discouraged, out of respect for the working people, patriotic Americans, many of whom have fought under that flag. We do not want to offend them.
Another Leftist journalist, one with a strong sense of democracy, produced a video, titled ‘’Top Republicans Just Turned On Trump…Then Buried Him!’’
In this video, he gave credit to the former Vice President, Mike Pence. Even though he was hardly a fan of Pence, he pointed out that Pence took a principled stand. He refused to ‘’falsify the results of the 2020 Presidential election’’, according to the journalist.
As Pence is reported to have said, ‘’Anyone who puts themselves over the Constitution, should never be President of the United States’’.
As the journalist pointed out, ‘’We are all pro democracy, we all believe the Constitution needs to be upheld. …Trump tried to steal our last election. There is no greater threat to our Republic. He resorted to lies and violence to keep himself in power. There was no evidence of election fraud’’.
Except that there was election fraud! Not the fraud that Trump was referring to, but fraud nonetheless. As the 2020 ‘’Presidential election’’ did not follow the procedure laid out in the Twelfth Amendment, it was clearly fraudulent.
Still another Leftist journalist produced another fine video, titled ‘’Police Raid Library To Enforce Book Bans: Is Fascism Already Here?’’
In this video, the journalist pointed out that, in the state of Texas, the police are ‘’raiding libraries’’, in order to enforce ‘’book bans’’. It is apparently a ‘’crime’’ in Texas to ‘’pass out certain books’’. The legal guidelines are ‘’rather vague’’, but include ‘’books that make people feel bad about race’’, as well as ‘’any reference to a gay character’’.
This journalist pointed out that ‘’This is the way the Nazis started. Book burning! First they come for the books. Librarians. Teachers. New fascist groups. All over social media. This is fascism’’.
This journalist certainly has good reason to be concerned. It is true that in Germany, the Nazis, fascists one and all, started by burning books. Yet book burning, by itself, is not necessarily fascist. It could well be reactionary.
This ‘’begs the question’’. What is the difference between fascist and reactionary?
According to the internet, a fascist is ‘’A far right form of government, in which most of the country’s power is held by one ruler, or a small group, under a single party. Fascist governments are usually totalitarian and authoritarian one party states’’.
Also according to the internet, a reactionary is defined as ‘’opposing social or political liberalization or reform’’.
From this, it is clear that all fascists are reactionary, but not all reactionaries are fascists.
Lenin goes into this in his excellent work, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism:
‘’The question as to whether it is possible to reform the basis of imperialism, whether to go forward to the aggravation of the antagonisms which it engenders, or backwards, towards allaying these antagonisms, is a fundamental question in the critique of imperialism. As a consequence of the fact that the political features of imperialism are reaction all along the line, and increased national oppression, resulting from the oppression of the financial oligarchy and the elimination of free competition, a democratic petty bourgeois opposition has been rising against imperialism in almost all imperialist countries, since the beginning of the twentieth century’’. (my italics)
May I suggest that we are experiencing ‘’reaction all along the line’’, in the form of ‘’book burning’’, which is not necessarily fascism. May I further suggest ‘’going forward to the aggravation of the antagonisms which imperialism engenders’’, by challenging the legality of the ‘’Presidential election’’, in a federal court of law.
The alternative, that of ‘’reforming the basis of imperialism’’, possibly by supporting the presumptive Democratic Party candidate for President, Kamala Harris, can best be described as a ‘’petty bourgeois opposition’’, one which has no chance of success. After all, the bourgeoisie has recently announced that it plans to wipe out the middle class. Now is not the time for ‘’half measures’’. The election of Harris, to the Presidency, will change nothing.
The previous examples, of videos produced by concerned Leftist journalists, indicate that there are a great many middle class people, who are deeply concerned. Now is the time to unite all Leftist opposition, both middle class and working class, in a legal challenge to the federal elections.
Such a court challenge will help to raise the level of awareness of the working class, the proletariat. They must be prepared for the approaching revolution, the insurrection, the smashing of the existing state apparatus, and the establishment of Scientific Socialism, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
As the proletariat is the only consistently revolutionary class, the ‘’class that holds the future in its hands’’, that is the ‘’way forward’‘.
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 