In 1847, Marx and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto. Even at that time, in the ‘’early days’’ of capitalism, the capitalists recognized the danger posed by the Scientific Socialist, Revolutionary theories of Marx. This is made clear at the very beginning of the Communist Manifesto:
‘’A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre.’’
It was not just the capitalists who were terrified of those Scientific Socialist theories of Marx. Also the nobility, clergy and landlords, among others. At that time, in Europe, those classes had considerable power. The Communist Manifesto went on to state:
‘’Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?’’
That is true, to this day. Certainly in America, to be branded a Communist, is the ultimate political insult. It is also one of the favourite insults of Trump. He takes great delight in accusing all of his political enemies of being Communists.
The Communist Manifesto goes on to state:
‘’Two things result from this fact:
- Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power
- It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.’’
After this brief introduction, the Communist Manifesto gets to the heart of the matter:
‘’1. Bourgeois and Proletarians
‘’The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
‘’Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
‘’In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the middle ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.
‘’The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.
‘’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: bourgeoisie and proletariat.’’
This is followed by a description of the manner in which the class of bourgeoisie grew and developed, becoming ever more powerful, until ‘’at last, since the establishment of modern industry and of the world market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative state, exclusive political sway. The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie,’’ as per the Communist Manifesto.
The fact must be stressed that the bourgeoisie is now so powerful, the state apparatus is now set up to ‘’manage the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie’’. The two mainstream political parties, Republican and Democratic, are but two sides to the same coin, as both serve the same class, the monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie. The leaders of each party recite the speeches they are told to recite, in order to give the impression that there is a difference between them. There is not. It is simply a matter of fooling the common people, the working class, the proletariat.
This is followed by a passage which many readers may find to be quite surprising. The revolutionary role of the bourgeoisie, in the early, pre monopoly, competitive stage of capitalism:
‘’The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.
‘’The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his ‘natural superiors’, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self interest, than callous ‘cash payment’. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religion fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single unconscionable freedom – free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
‘’The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.
‘’The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.
‘’The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which reactionists so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. It has been the first to show what mans’ activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former exoduses of nations and crusades.’’
This is followed by a description of the manner in which the bourgeoisie is ‘’constantly revolutionizing the means of production’’, which results in ‘’drawing all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization.’’ Further, that same bourgeois society is ‘’like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.’’ This gives rise to the periodic ‘’epidemic of over production’’, otherwise known as ‘’crises in capitalism’’.
Yet it is not just over production which leads to crises in capitalism. That which is technically referred to as a ‘’mass movement’’, also leads to such crises. Most common people refer to this as a ‘’public uprising’’, in which the ‘’masses’’ – an expression I hate and tend to avoid, as it sounds so impersonal – become focused on a particular subject of ‘’abuse of power’’, by the capitalists, to phrase it in polite terms. The current crisis in capitalism is based on that which is referred to as the ‘’Epstein Scandal’’.
It is the Epstein Scandal which has captured the attention of the vast majority of ‘’common people’’, by whom I mean workers and family farmers. Jeffrey Epstein was a most prolific pedophile, which is to say a child molester, one who ‘’trafficked’’ underage girls, a ‘’pimp’’ who sold children to numerous ‘’Johns’’, all of whom are classified as ’’rich and powerful’’ men. Epstein was eventually arrested and charged with some very serious crimes. He was facing a rather lengthy prison sentence. While in prison, he was found dead in his cell.
Almost no one is buying the ‘’official cause of death’’, as that of ‘’suicide by hanging’’, within the prison, as such a suicide is simply not possible. There is nothing, on the ceiling of any prison, to which any device can be attached! Epstein was clearly murdered! Dead men ‘’tell no tales’’!
This brings us to that which the legal experts refer to as ‘’motive, means and opportunity’’. Consider first the motive, the possible reason someone could have for wanting to kill that piece of human garbage. Aside from ‘’moral indignation’’, of course. The answer is that his ‘’customers’’, his ‘’clients’’, his ‘’Johns’’, child molesters, one and all, are not at all anxious to be exposed as the pedophiles, that they are. It is entirely possible that Epstein was prepared to ‘’rat out’’ his ‘’customers’’, to give the government their identity, in return for a reduced sentence. This is common practice, among such human filth.
Then there is the ‘’means’’, which is to say the money required to ‘’arrange’’ for his supposed suicide. As the clients of Epstein were all ‘’filthy rich’’, supremely wealthy, many of them multi billionaires, they certainly had the means. Money may not buy happiness, but it certainly buys almost everything else, including murder. Numerous mobsters can testify to that fact!
This brings us to ‘’opportunity’’. As Epstein was locked up, in prison, his enemies knew precisely where to locate him. Then it was a simple matter of sending in the proper assassin, probably a government employee, with orders to ‘‘arrange a suicide’’.
The ensuing ‘’cover up’’, to phrase it in legal jargon, was handled in a rather clumsy manner. The video of the assassin entering the cell of Epstein was altered, in a most amateurish fashion. Experts on video surveillance have established that it was replaced with a video from a previous day. The guards were ‘’advised’’ to remain silent, and the Medical Examiner was ‘’persuaded’’ to falsify the ‘’Cause Of Death’’, COD, as being ‘’that of suicide’’, due to ‘’death by hanging’’. Bear in mind that there is a heavy penalty for falsifying such a legal document. Not only could such a person lose their medical license, but also be charged as an accessory to murder. Such a conviction carries a lengthy prison sentence.
Amateurs! Any self respecting mobster would have handled this murder and subsequent cover up, in a far more professional manner! This official ‘’suicide’’ of Epstein, was clearly arranged by those who are not experts in homicide. Government officials, without a doubt!
Now the ‘’Epstein Cover Up’’ is continuing, still within an amateurish manner. On October 1 of this year, 2025, the government officially entered an official shut down. This provided the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, with an opportunity to also ‘’shut down’’ the House of Representatives!
With the House of Representatives shut down, the proposed motion to force a vote to release the ‘’Epstein Files’’, has been delayed, indefinitely. Those files contain a list of names of all people who were allegedly the ‘’customers’’ of Epstein, child molesters, pedophiles, one and all. None of those supremely wealthy people are at all anxious to have their names made public.
Bear in mind that we live in a democratic society, so that all members have certain democratic rights. Just because a name is on a list, does not make that person guilty of any crime. We are all entitled to our ‘’day in court’’. ‘’Innocent until proven guilty’’, as is the popular expression.
It is significant that Richard Wolff, one of the most highly respected bourgeois economists, is increasingly concerned. He frequently gives long winded, rambling monologues, and one of his most recent speeches was no exception. Yet he touched upon a subject that has aroused the curiosity of numerous middle class intellectuals:
‘’Unlike the controversies of the past, this is different. This time, the legal heat has reached a level we have never seen before. ..It is an avalanche of criminal charges…It is a full blown storm, the kind that threatens everything in its path…In the past, Trump thrived on distraction, delay and deflection….the system is pushing back harder than ever before….What happens next? Can Trump still withstand this flood of legal attacks? Or is this the start of his political downfall?…It is what is happening with his political base…but now that ironclad loyalty is starting to fracture…’’
Wolff is correct when he states that ‘’this is different’’. The difference is that the working people are demanding answers! They are not taking distraction, delay and deflection lying down! The usual ‘’stone walling’’ of Trump is no longer being tolerated!
Wolff is also correct when he states that the ‘’ironclad loyalty’’ of his most devoted followers, his ‘’political base’’, is indeed ‘’fracturing’’.
According to an article, posted on the internet, it is alleged that Representative Eric Swalwell maintains that ‘’House Republicans support for President Donald Trump, in the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal, is collapsing’’. In particular, he is reported to have said that, ‘’It’s coming to an end, guys. I’ve spoken to a lot of House Republicans this week and they’ve confided that Trump’s movement/support is fading. As one told me, ‘This Epstein bomb is about to drop and no one wants to defend a pedo-protector. It’s just a matter of time’’’.
The Communist Manifesto also explains this. As it states, ‘’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.’’
This is followed by a description of the development of the proletariat. The struggle against the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, force the workers to unite. As the Communist Manifesto states, ‘’Thereupon the workers begin to form combinations (trade unions) against the bourgeois; they club together in order to keep up the rate of wages; they found permanent associations in order to make provision beforehand for these occasional revolts….This organization of the proletarians into a class, and consequently into a political party, is continually being upset again by the competition between the workers themselves. But it ever rises up again, stronger, firmer, mightier. …Further, as we have already seen, 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.’’
We are currently at the point where a great many middle class intellectuals, are being forced to join the working class, the proletariat. There is little or no choice in the matter. They bring with them their awareness of the Scientific Socialist, Revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin.
This brings us to the inevitable conclusion, as per the Communist Manifesto: ‘’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. Just as, therefore, at an earlier period, a section of the nobility went over to the bourgeoisie, so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat, and in particular, a portion of the bourgeois ideologists, who have raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole.’’
May I suggest that the ‘’class struggle’’ is now at the ‘’decisive hour’’. It is just a matter of time, and probably a short time, before the House of Representatives is called back into session. Then the House will be forced to vote to release the Epstein Files. This vote will pass with an overwhelming majority, as a great many Republican Members will ‘’jump on the bandwagon’’. In short, they will ‘’join the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands.’’
With the anticipated release of the Epstein Files, the names of a great many men, all of whom are supremely rich, many of them multi billionaires, some highly respected, will be made public. These are the men who allegedly raped a great many underage girls, children.
At that point, we can expect the ‘’flood gates to open’’, to state it in popular terms. The working people will demand justice, for the girls who were so terribly abused. The government, led by Trump, will continue to ‘’distract, delay and deflect’’, as a means of protecting the ruling class of monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie. As the working class is in very powerful, revolutionary motion, this could well lead to a full scale insurrection. The Second American Revolution.
I can only hope that the facts presented, in this article, will motivate a great many middle class intellectuals, those who are aware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin, to ‘’join the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands.’’ They can then share this awareness with the working class, the proletariat.
The forthcoming Insurrection is bound to lead to a successful Scientific Socialist Revolution, in that the existing state apparatus is bound to be smashed, and replaced with a different state apparatus, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. At that time, there will be a huge demand for skilled engineers, scientists and administrators. Such individuals will be paid accordingly.
By contrast, those who support the monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, and fight the transition to a state of Scientific Socialism, can expect to become a target of the Revolution. Such misguided souls may well end up in the same remote work camp, with their former lords and masters, performing the same manual labour. The choice is yours. Choose wisely.
With Most Fraternal Communist Greetings
Gerald McIsaac
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 