Concerning the Process of Dissolution

In my opinion, the current situation in America, is precisely described, in 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.’’

As for those who are skeptical, feel free to consider the following facts: 

America has just experienced the longest government shutdown in history.

Medical insurance premiums for millions of Americans are about to ‘’go through the roof’’, so that most working class people, are about to lose their medical coverage.

The tax money saved will go towards tax cuts for the monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie.

The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, used the government shutdown as an excuse to not swear in the latest Member of Congress, Arizona Democratic Representative, Adelita Grijalva, for fifty days, after she was elected.

As soon as she was sworn in, her first act was to sign the ‘’Discharge Petition’’, in an attempt to force the release of the ‘’Epstein Files’’.

All of the Democratic Members of the House, as well as four Republican Members, had earlier signed that Petition. That brought the total to 217. As there are 435 Members of Congress, her vote brought it up to the required 218 majority, in order to force a vote. 

Now Mike Johnson has agreed to call a vote next week, concerning the release of the Epstein Files.

At the moment, twenty thousand pages of documents, including countless emails from Jeffrey Epstein, from 2011 to 2119, have been released.

These emails from Epstein, mention Trump multiple times. Epstein alleges, in his emails, that ‘’Trump knew about the girls Epstein was trafficking’’, that Epstein ‘’gave one of his girlfriends to Trump’’, that ‘’Trump spent hours in Epstein’s house’’, with an ‘’underage girl’’. He also referred to Trump as a ‘’maniac with early dementia’’.

The Leftist press is reporting that Trump has ‘’descended into full panic mode’’, over the release of the twenty thousand pages of Epstein Files, as well as the threat of the release of hundreds of thousands of more documents.

Accordingly, he summoned Republican Member of Congress, Lauren Boebert, who has signed the Petition, to a meeting in the White House situation room, to ‘’discuss her demand to release the Epstein Files’’. In fact, Trump and senior officials tried to intimidate her, to force her to change her mind. It is to her credit that she stood her ground.

In a desperate attempt to get someone to swear that he was not involved with Epstein, Trump has stooped to the depth of bribing Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of Epstein, an individual who is currently serving a twenty year sentence for trafficking underage girls, also convicted of perjury. Trump had her transferred to a minimum security prison, and she is being rewarded with various privileges. He will very likely issue her a pardon, in return for her assurances that Trump was not aware of the Epstein sex trafficking operation. As if anyone is about to take the word of a convicted sex offender!

If Mike Johnson keeps his word, and the vote to release the Epstein Files takes place, then at least 100 Republican Members of Congress are expected to vote to release those files. Assuming that happens, then it will have to go to the Senate. Further assuming the Senate votes on the issue, and also assuming they pass the resolution, then it has to go to Trump, and he is almost certain to veto the bill. At that point, the House and Senate can override his veto, if they so choose. That is a lot of assumes!

From a Scientific Socialist, Communist standpoint, the main point is not so much the release of the Epstein Files, as is the fact the the working class, the proletariat, is receiving an education. Their level of awareness is being raised. They are becoming more aware of themselves as a class, as opposed to the class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie.

In the interest of further raising their level of awareness, to the point of class consciousness, may I suggest watching a video, recently posted on the internet. Leftist journalists can learn from that video. It is titled, ‘’Capital Hill Erupts As Lawmakers Demand Trump’s Resignation Or Impeachment, Over Abuse Of Power’’. I have summarized the first eight minutes, of that video, as best I was able, as that is the significant part. 

It begins by stating that even ‘’Republican Members of Congress are calling for Trump to resign’’. This is followed by a balanced, thoughtful, accurate analysis of the current political situation, by Gavin Pierce, without resorting to vulgarity! A sin of which all too many Leftist journalists are guilty!

The reason that I so deeply disapprove of the use of vulgarity, within political videos, is because the most advanced workers also disapprove of this. In fact, when hearing such language, they frequently change the video! This defeats the purpose of the video! Bear in mind that it is the most advanced workers who lead! The less advanced workers pay strict attention to the opinion of the most advanced.

The narrator goes on to state: ‘’Capital Hill is erupting. Full blown chaos in Congress. Lawmakers, both Democrats and some Republicans, are demanding that Trump either resign or face impeachment. …This is over 120 House Members and at least seven Senators who said Trump needs to go. They are citing abuse of power, unauthorized military operations, defiance of court rulings, the ongoing government shutdown chaos, and they are saying ‘enough is enough, Trump has crossed too many lines, violated too many Constitutional norms, and he needs to be removed from office’. This is an unprecedented moment in American politics. …The stakes could not be higher. …If Congress actually moves forward with impeachment, or if enough pressure builds for Trump to resign, we are talking about a Constitutional Crisis….’’

So far so good. The preceding was an accurate description of our current situation, stated without undue emotion. This is followed by an excerpt from a separate video, which documents the fact that ‘’Trump wants to be a dictator’’. 

The narrator goes on to state that the calls for the impeachment of Trump have ‘’reached a fever pitch’’, after a ‘’series of drone strikes, that Trump allegedly ordered, without proper authorization. Violations of Constitutional limits of executive power’’. 

In an attempt to divert the revolutionary motion, of the working class, away from the Epstein Scandal, Trump has decided to go to war with Venezuela! The drone strikes, against Venezuelan ships, killing many innocent people, is just the beginning! The anticipated full blown war, if it happens, will result in death and destruction, on a vast scale. Not that Trump cares! He only cares about staying in power! Whatever it takes to maintain his continuous rule, along with his class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie! Nothing else matters!

This detail the narrator managed to gloss over.

He went on to state, ‘’It is like watching a slow motion train wreck. But now Congress is finally … demanding action. ..Multiple Republicans have joined Democrats in calling for Trump’s removal…Some are calling for impeachment, while others are calling for the invocation of the Twenty Fifth Amendment. …A formal impeachment resolution is on the table…seven articles of impeachment against Trump….a detailed indictment of Trump’s conduct in office….The Twenty Fifth Amendment allows the Vice President and the majority of the Cabinet to remove a President who is unable to discharge the duties of office…These calls for resignation …reflect wide spread political instability and mounting public protest. A break down in the basic functioning of government.’’

True, at the highest levels of government, officials are considering the best way to remove Trump from office, but only as a result of the revolutionary motion! They are being forced into this! The narrator does his best to also gloss over this point!

This brings us to Minute 8 of the video, and up to this point the narrator was doing reasonably well. But in the following sixteen minutes, he lost his way. He goes into the various possibilities of removing Trump from office, all within the legal bourgeois system. Yet he fails to take into account the revolutionary motion. He makes no mention of the fact that, during the recent No Kings Protest, even though an estimated seven million people protested, all across the country, no one was arrested! This is an indication that the local police have joined the Revolution! The Second American Revolution!

Almost certainly, this narrator has been to University, as he is supremely well spoken. Equally without doubt, he must be aware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. More accurately, he has been exposed to those theories, as only the bourgeois distortion of those theories are taught in University. As well, he must believe those distortions. 

Even though the narrator is clearly an intelligent, well educated, articulate individual, he cannot face the fact that America is currently experiencing a Second American Revolution.

This is rather strange, as the United States came into existence, as the result of a Revolution! The Revolutionary War of 1776! A Revolution of which Americans are supremely proud! With good reason, I might add. So how is it that so many well educated Americans refuse to believe that it can happen again? 

The Communist Manifesto gives us the answer:  

‘’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.’’

This narrator, one of the finest of the ‘’bourgeois ideologists’’, is not capable of ‘’raising himself to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole’’. He is still focused on the old, worn out, obsolete, bourgeois method of rule. He and countless others, I might add.

Yet the Second American Revolution is underway. The working class is focused on the Epstein Scandal, and the response of the monopoly capitalist class of multi billionaires, as spear headed by the Trump administration. Now it is up to Scientific Socialists, Communists, to use this Scandal to raise the level of awareness of the working class, the proletariat, or at least the most advanced workers, to the level of Conscious People, Scientific Socialists, Communists!

The working class, the proletariat, must become aware of itself as a class, with its own class interests, which are diametrically opposed to the interests of the class of monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie! 

The conditions of life, of the proletariat, do not lead to the awareness of itself, as a class! This class awareness must be brought to the working class, from an outside source. That outside source is middle class intellectuals! Bear in mind that both Marx and Lenin were middle class intellectuals! Their revolutionary theories must be brought to the working class! 

There is a sense of urgency to this, as the Second American Revolution is already underway. Now the revisionists, those who claim to be Scientific Socialists, Communists, but are determined to revise those revolutionary theories, are equally determined to take over the existing state apparatus, and set themselves up, as the new rulers.

It is a fundamental tenet of Scientific Socialism, that the existing state apparatus, which has been set up to crush the working class, has to be smashed, and replaced with a new state apparatus, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat! 

Rest assured, after the Revolution, after the multi billionaires are stripped of their wealth and power, they will not resign themselves to their fate! On the contrary, their rage, their hatred, their fury, will increase ten fold, to red hot levels! They will go to any length, stoop to any depth, even to the level of pretending to be dedicated Communists, in order to infiltrate the Communist Party- one of their most effective tactics!- with the goal of returning to power! 

That is precisely what happened in the two formerly Scientific Socialist republics of the Soviet Union and China. The leaders of those countries made some serious mistakes, which enabled the capitalists to return to power. This is no cause for despair on our part. As we are all human, we all make mistakes. Now it is our duty to learn from the mistakes of those great revolutionaries, so as not to repeat those same mistakes.

Time is not on our side! A full blown insurrection could break out at any time! A Revolution is similar to a volcano. It can and will explode, but only when it is good and ready! The precise time cannot be predicted.

On the other hand, the working class is now quite well cultured, so that raising their level of awareness is nowhere near as difficult as it used to be. By comparison, in Russia, in the summer of 1917, Lenin was faced with the urgent task of raising the level of awareness of the working class, in preparation for the approaching Revolution. Even though the Russian proletariat was not at all cultured, he succeeded, within a rather short time. The workers were prepared for the October Revolution of 1917.

As Lenin and the Russian Communists succeeded, under circumstances which were far more challenging than those we face today, then we too can succeed. Bear in mind that most workers have access to various digital devices, and know how to use them. That makes our task much easier.

In summary, we can say that Trump plans to set himself up as dictator, the leader of the class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie. The democratic republic is in the process of being dismantled. The impoverishment and suffering of the working class is about to be dramatically increased! At the same time, the Second American Revolution is now breaking out, and needs direction. The level of awareness of the working class must be raised. Preparations must be made for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

As I have gone into this, in detail, in numerous previous articles, there is no need to repeat it here. 

With Most Fraternal Communist Greetings, 

Gerald McIsaac