In the early hours of Sunday morning, February 22, 2026, the Mexican Special Forces, working in ‘’cooperation’’ with American authorities, raided the headquarters of a major drug dealer, Numenscio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, a man who goes by the name of ‘’El Mencho’’. He was killed in the attack.
The American officials are facing a huge problem, in that there is currently a ‘’drug epidemic’’ sweeping the country. Each year, tens of thousands of people are dying from drug overdoses. These drugs include cocaine, heroin and especially fentanyl, manufactured mainly in other countries, and sent into the United States.
Their response to this ‘’epidemic’’, is to attack the source of the drugs. As the profits from selling these drugs is huge, the drug dealers have banded together, to form Cartels. These Drug Cartels are based mainly in Mexico and various countries of South America. One of the biggest, most powerful of the Cartels, is the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, CJNG, based in Mexico, and formerly led by El Mencho. So the American government offered a fifteen million dollar reward for ‘’information leading to the arrest and or conviction’’ of El Mencho.
It is an understatement, to say that this approach makes absolutely no sense. More accurately, such an approach is nothing other than the height of stupidity. Could it be that these dedicated defenders of capitalism, are not aware of a little something, referred to as, ‘’The law of supply and demand?’’
In a nutshell, and phrased in popular terms which even they, with their limited intellectual ability, should be able to grasp, let me spell it out: Where there is a demand, someone will rise to the occasion, and supply that demand, with a ‘’product’’. The greater the demand, the higher the price of that product.
As concerns our current situation, there is a great demand for drugs, within the country of America. For that reason, numerous capitalists, or ‘’entrepreneurs’’, if you prefer, have risen to the occasion, and are meeting this demand, with an impressive supply of drugs. These drugs are known as their ‘’product’’. Such a product comes with an equally impressive price tag.
In response to the efforts of drug dealers, mainly based in other countries, to meet this demand, the American officials have pursued a policy of ‘’apprehending’’ the leaders of the various Drug Cartels. In all fairness, they have had some limited success in this endeavour.
In the nineteen eighties, they focused mainly upon Pablo Escobar, a major drug dealer, within the country of Columbia. True, he flooded the American market with tonnes of cocaine, and became supremely wealthy. So American officials succeeded in hunting him down and killing him. It is also true that after his death, the supply of cocaine, coming into the country, was reduced, at least temporarily.
As a result, the price of cocaine ‘’sky rocketed’’. So numerous other capitalists, entrepreneurs, leaders of other Drug Cartels, rose to the occasion, and supplied that demand. Very quickly, things ‘’returned to normal’’. The streets of America were once again flooded with cocaine, but at a more reasonable price.
This is to say that such an approach, of focusing on the leaders of the Drug Cartels, is pointless. It has absolutely no long term effect. Even when an individual leader of a particular Cartel is ‘’eliminated’’, another steps forward to ‘’fill the vacuum’’, to supply the demand for a particular product. Nothing of substance changes.
The sad fact is that the current crop of idiots, within the capital of Washington, cannot figure this out. Yet this is not too surprising. As Lenin pointed out, even the best of the bourgeois are notorious for their ‘’muddled thinking’’. And rest assured, Trump and his cronies hardly qualify as being among the best! Lenin went on to add that such muddled thinking is ‘’what will bring about the downfall of the bourgeoisie’’.
The only approach which makes the slightest bit of sense, is that of eliminating the system which gives rise to a demand for those drugs. And rest assured, capitalism is precisely the system which gives rise to that demand!
Under capitalism, the class of people known as the bourgeois, are supremely wealthy, and equally bored. By contrast, the class of people known as the working class, the proletariat, are supremely poverty stricken, and equally desperate. As a result of this, one class is anxious to relieve their boredom, while the other class is anxious to ‘’self medicate’’, to relieve their pain.
This is similar to the problem faced by the Chinese, at the time of the Chinese Revolution of 1949. In previous years, the British had flooded the country with opium, as a means of exercising control over the colony of China. As a result of this, countless Chinese citizens became opium addicts.
The Chinese Communist Party, at that time a true Scientific Socialist Party, one which called for Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, faced the problem and took the proper course of action. Those who were addicted to opium were offered a course of treatment. Those who were selling opium were sent to prison, and forced to perform manual labour. The addicts who refused treatment and recovery, joined the opium dealers in prison. Very quickly, the opium epidemic was under control.
The contrast between the proper Scientific Socialist, Communist, response to a drug epidemic, and that of the capitalists, is striking. The capitalists focus on uprooting the poppy fields, smashing the labs which turn out the finished products, and arresting or killing the heads of the ‘’Drug Cartels’’. An ‘’exercise in frustration!’’
The huge profits generated by the sale of these drugs, has given rise to a great many supremely wealthy Drug Cartels. Along with that great wealth, comes great power. Political power. In fact, the political power of the Drug Cartels, at least within the country of Mexico, now rivals that of the Mexican government!
In response to the killing of their leader, the CJNG Drug Cartel took action. Numerous acts of arson took place. Homes and businesses were burned. Vehicles, and in particular trucks and busses, were set on fire, subsequently blocking major highways. Schools were shut down. Flights were cancelled. Tourists were terrified. The ‘’lifeblood’’ of the economy of the country was in peril! So much for the ‘’War on Drugs’’!
Yet the manner in which the Drug Cartel effectively shut down the country, is instructive. It was well organized. It was focused. It was not random acts of violence. The ‘’troops’’ who took part in this ‘’act of revenge’’, were disciplined. Also well armed and equipped. They followed orders. They used the latest technology, including surveillance drones. It closely resembled a military operation.
As the United States is close to full scale Revolution, Civil War, working class versus the capitalist class, it is close to an Insurrection. As pointed out in previous articles, the success of that Revolution depends largely upon how well organized that Insurrection is. The working people taking part in that Insurrection must be focused, determined, disciplined, well armed, well trained and equipped. Just as the Mexican Drug Cartel members behaved! Which is not to say that we should copy their methods.
The best way we can support the common people of Mexico, is by working ever harder to overthrow the ruling class of monopoly capitalists, the bourgeoisie, currently running the United States. The Councils, otherwise known as Soviets, which have spontaneously appeared and are working ‘’underground’’, must be supported and strengthened. They are assisting common people in every way possible, doing everything in their power to reduce the demand for drugs, among the working class. This includes training, arming and equipping workers, in preparation for the approaching Insurrection.
But then there are those who may object, quite reasonably, that there is a reason these Councils are working underground. Much of the work they are doing is something other than legal. In fact, a great deal of such work is strictly against the law. True!
Lenin had a few words to say, concerning this subject, in Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder. In fact, he stressed the ‘’importance of combining legal and illegal struggle. The question is of immense importance both in general and in particular, because in all civilized and advanced countries, the time is rapidly approaching when such a combination will more and more become- and has already partly become- mandatory on the party of the revolutionary proletariat, inasmuch as civil war between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is maturing and is imminent, and because of savage persecution of the Communists by republican governments and bourgeois governments generally, which resort to any violation of legality’’. (italics by Lenin)
Allow me to stress the fact that ‘’combining legal and illegal struggle’’, is ‘’mandatory on the party of the revolutionary proletariat’’! (my italics)
For those of us who are focused on forming a truly Revolutionary, Scientific Socialist Communist Party, which is to say one which calls for Council Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, we must combine legal and illegal actions. Our support for these underground Councils is urgently required.
We will know that we are succeeding in raising the level of awareness of the working class, when certain expressions become common place. These expressions can take the form of slogans, such as:
Workers of the World, Unite!
Dictatorship of the Proletariat!
Peace! Democracy! Scientific Socialism!
Council Power!
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