November 5, 2024. Presidential Election Day in America. A day which will ‘’live in infamy’’, if you will excuse the expression. The day a former president, a multi billionaire, a convicted felon, has once again won the Presidential Election. Donald Trump is now the ‘’President Elect’’, soon to be sworn in as President, on January 20, 2025. Unless he is stopped!
This little task is perhaps, not as difficult as it first appears. After all, the ‘’Presidential Election’’ is completely fraudulent! Unconstitutional!
Now the 538 Members of the Electoral College are about to be degraded! Each of these Electors is a proud professional, a respected member of the middle class. Yet each is about to be treated as a ‘’common servant’’, forced to ‘’run an errand’’, to cast their ballots for one of the sets of candidates, of one of the two mainstream political parties, for the offices of President and Vice President. In complete violation of Constitutional Law!
Of course I am referring to the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution. That is the Amendment which lays out the procedure to be followed, for all federal elections. There is no Presidential Election! The American voters have nothing to say concerning the election of the President, or the Vice President! That is strictly at the discretion of the Electors, the Members of the Electoral College!
It may be objected that the Twelfth Amendment, and the subsequent Electoral College, is a ‘’remnant of slavery’’, and should be abolished. True! Yet at the moment, it remains part of the Constitution, and must be respected. The Constitution is not a ‘’scrap of paper’’! There is a process to be followed, in order to change the Constitution.
This is referred to as ‘’democracy’’, and without doubt, the American democratic republic is under attack.
It is the multi billionaires, the monopoly capitalists, the class of people known as the bourgeoisie, who are responsible for this assault on democracy. Trump just happens to be one of their own. That in no way changes the fact that he is a mere ‘’figure head’’, a ‘’puppet’’. The monopoly capitalist class ‘’call the shots’’, and Trump ‘’dances to their tune’’.
The polite term for this is ‘’class struggle’’, which is to say the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the other classes, most notably the working class, the proletariat, but also the middle class, the petty bourgeois. A more accurate term is ‘’class warfare’’, as the class struggle is about to break out into open class warfare! The bourgeoisie has just announced that it plans to wipe out the middle class!
For the benefit of those who are skeptical, bear in mind that all businesses but five, and all banks but seven, are Too Small To Succeed! As these banks and businesses fail, the ‘’small business owners’’ -including the owners of General Motors!- are about to go the way of the dodo bird!
A considerable number of middle class people are already painfully well aware of this, and are making preparations for the approaching ‘’disaster’’. They are buying gold and silver, and hiding these ‘’assets’’, in safe deposit boxes. As if that is about to do a ‘’world of good’’! Mere ‘’stop gap’’ measures!
Allow me to offer a friendly little word of advice, to those worried middle class people. Your fears are well grounded. Your days of a comfortable existence, as members of the middle class, even upper middle class, are ‘’numbered’’. Consider yourselves to be ‘’living on borrowed time’’. Very soon, the stock market will crash, the banks will fail, all small businesses will ‘’follow suit’’, and the country will enter a Second Great Depression.
At that point, your standard of living will ‘’nose dive’’. You will have to abandon your multi million dollar houses and apartments, or ‘’condominiums’’, if you prefer. Their value will drop to negligible. As well, the ‘’used car lots’’ will be cluttered with luxury vehicles, of little value. Other status symbols, such as those ‘’hundred thousand dollar’’ ”high end” wrist watches, will be sold for ‘’next to nothing’’, at the pawn shops. The Auction Houses will be flooded with works of art, so that they will be sold at a fraction of their original value.
You will find yourself poverty stricken, forced into the ranks of the working class, the proletariat.
Under those circumstances, any gold or silver you may have ‘’tucked away’’, will not last for long. It will soon run out. Feel free to consider the alternative.
That alternative lies in embracing the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. Face the fact that the working class is destined to overthrow the completely reactionary class of monopoly capitalists, the bourgeoisie, and crush that class, under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
Now is the time to join the proletariat, in the war against the bourgeoisie. As they have just declared war on your class, this only makes sense. We have a common enemy. Our main goal now, our ‘’key link in the class struggle’’, is to complete preparations for the approaching Revolution, which includes the Insurrection, and the subsequent Scientific Socialism, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
As I have gone into this, in considerable detail, in other articles, there is no need to repeat it here. Suffice it to say that, with your considerable business skills, you have a bright future under Scientific Socialism, while you have absolutely no future under capitalism.
Part of that preparation, involves immediately supporting your middle class Comrades, the Electors. Let them know that they are not alone. Advise them to take a stand! A principle is involved! Your democracy is under attack! It is their duty to vote for the individuals, of their choice, for the office of President, as well as the office of Vice President. No one has any right to force them to vote otherwise! All state laws, to that effect, must be challenged, and struck down, by the Supreme Court, as Unconstitutional! Those attorneys who are experts on Constitutional Law, can testify to that fact!
Time is not on our side. As yet, we still live under a democratic republic. That could all change in January, as the first thing Trump plans to do, as soon as he is sworn into office, as President, is set himself up as Dictator. Then Project 2025 will ‘’swing into action’’! At that point, all Americans can ‘’Kiss their Democratic Republic Goodbye’’!
That will make the task, of the democratic forces, far more difficult.
Bear in mind that it is not my intention to scare anyone. I am merely stating the facts. It is the bourgeoisie that has decided to wipe out the middle class. Take them ‘’at their word’’. They are not joking. After all, they do not have a sense of humour.
Having said that, the ‘’other side of the coin’’, so to speak, is the fact that American women, have recently proven themselves to be excellent organizers. They have done it before, on short notice, and now must do it again. It is very likely that they have learned from their mistakes!
Now the immediate goal is to convince the Electors to vote for the individual for President, of their choice! There is a very reasonable chance that the women can persuade all of the Electors, to do just that! After all, those ladies are not to be under estimated!
If even 270 Electors vote for an individual, other than Trump, then that individual must be sworn in as President! Constitutional Law!
Yet another possibility is to have no one candidate win a majority of 270 Electoral Votes. In that case, as less than 270 Electors voted for Trump, and no other candidate received the required majority, then the Federal Election must, by Constitutional Law, go to the House of Representatives.
Even that could be regarded as a ‘’partial victory’’. If nothing else, it would prove, to the working class, that the multi billionaires, can be beaten! They are not all powerful!
Regardless of the manner in which the Electors vote, the fundamentals will not change. The class of people, known as the bourgeoisie, will remain in power. Further, they will remain determined to wipe out the middle class, ‘’one way or another’’.
It is reasonable to assume that the leaders of the women’s protest movement, are all middle class. Bear in mind that the bourgeoisie are determined to wipe out your class. Further bear in mind the fact that Trump is merely the figure head. Stopping Trump from becoming President, is merely the first step. It is the class of monopoly capitalists, that has to be overthrown.
The Women’s Protest Movement, against Trump, eight years ago, was most impressive. Yet now we are right back where we started! Half measures!
Apparently, the leaders of that previous Women’s Movement were persuaded to form a corporation. If true, it means that they ‘’sold out’’. It also means that new, more resolute, class conscious women must assume leadership roles.
I am well aware that it is not right, or fair, to place this burden on American women. All such women ‘’have a full plate’’, and this is the last thing they need. Yet American men have as yet to ‘’rise to the occasion’’, to assume a leadership role, so that this new American Women’s Movement, may serve to motivate them.
Perhaps these modern day American women can take some comfort and inspiration, from their Russian counterparts, of February, 1917. At that time, under the rule of Tsar Nicholas -Nicholas the Bloody!- the ladies of the capital city of Saint Petersburg, cold and hungry, decided they had had enough. Their ‘’menfolk’’ were either dead, or in the army, fighting the war, for the sake of their ‘’Lord and Master’’, the Tsar.
Those heroic Russian women took to the streets, demanding bread, as their families were starving. The factory workers noticed this, and numerous factories shut down, as the workers joined the protesting women.
The local police were ordered to ‘’quell the uprising’’, but were unable to do so. The government then sent out the Petrograd Garrison, to restore ‘’law and order’’, but many of the troops wavered, reluctant to open fire on their ‘’countrymen’’, many of whom were women. This same Garrison then proceeded to join the ‘’protesters’’.
This was the beginning of the Russian Revolution of February, 1917. As the army joined the ‘’protesters’’, it rapidly became a full blown Revolution. Tsar Nicholas was forced to ‘’abdicate the throne’’, within a few days.
It is significant that this Russian February Revolution, was started by women! It was then carried through, first by factory workers, proletarians, and then by the army, as soldiers ‘’switched sides’’.
The similarities, between Russia of 1917, and America of today, are striking. Countless American men are in the army, at least preparing to fight the wars, for their ‘’Lords and Masters’’, the multi billionaires, in the interests of increasing profits. Other men are busy working two and even three jobs, trying to ‘’make ends meet’’. Hunger is common place. As is addictions and overdoses. Gang violence is the rule, not the exception, with the local police reduced to the level of impotence. Mass shootings are commonplace. Homelessness is wide spread. Those who are able to live in vehicles are considered to be more ‘’fortunate’’. A Revolutionary situation!
Now is not the time for despair! Now is the time to seek inspiration from the heroic Russian women of 1917! They ‘’blazed the trail’’, set the example, which we can all follow. They challenged the authority of the ‘’all powerful’’ Tsar! These few, unarmed women, set out to destroy the Russian Empire, and they succeeded! But only because the workers joined them, followed by the military.
Now is the time for action. Aside from the immediate goal, of stopping Trump, from being sworn in as President, other duties demand our immediate attention.
Efforts to arm, train and equip members of the working class, led by Councils, in preparation for the approaching Insurrection, must be intensified. That Insurrection may well be forced upon us, sooner than we had anticipated. Trump may well make sure of that! The better prepared we are, the more likely we are to succeed.
The creation of a true Communist Party, Dictatorship of the Proletariat, must also be accelerated. People need leaders! Every effort must be made to raise the level of awareness of the proletariat, to make them aware of themselves as a class, complete with their own class interests, in opposition to that of the monopoly capitalists. That is the role of the Communist Party!
There is a reason that I stress the importance of the proletariat. Because it is the one and only consistently revolutionary class! The other classes tend to vacillate, at best. At worst, they are counter revolutionary, referred to as ‘’Contras’’.
Bear in mind that both Marx and Lenin were middle class intellectuals. They turned their backs on a comfortable middle class life style, and chose instead, to work in the service of the common people, both workers and family farmers.
The point is that certain individual members, of the middle class, can and will become dedicated Marxists, Revolutionaries, Communists. Certain others will not. They will remain loyal to the monopoly capitalist class, referred to as Contras. Still others will vacillate, siding with the Revolutionaries one day, but siding with the Contras the next, hoping for a return to the ‘’good old days’’. Even though those days are gone, never to return!
Now it is up to certain members of the middle class, those who are class conscious intellectuals, to bring the awareness of classes, and the conflict between the classes, to the working class, the proletariat. This is necessary, as the conditions of life, of the working class, do not lead to the awareness of themselves, as a class.
This awareness has to come from an outside source, and that source is middle class intellectuals.
As I have mentioned numerous times before, it is only in University that the Revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin are taught, and then only with a view to distorting those theories. Further, as it is mainly only members of the middle class, who can attend University, it is mainly only middle class people, who are aware of those theories.
Our support, of the Electors, will certainly assist in raising the level of awareness of the proletariat. The ‘’Presidential Election’’, and especially the ‘’Election of Trump’’, has caught the attention of the vast majority of people. In the process of exposing the lies and deception, by the bourgeoisie, involved in this fraudulent election, the working people will become more class conscious.
By all means, feel free to flood social media, with class content, as well as Marxist slogans, in order to ‘’spread the word’’:
Workers of the World, Unite!
Dictatorship of the Proletariat!
Scientific Socialism!
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 