It is now March 28, 2026, and the mainstream press is reporting that ‘’the United States has effectively come to a standstill’’. Officials are reporting that, all across the country, from the most densely populated cities to the most remote rural regions, people have ‘’taken to the streets’’, protesting against the completely reactionary agenda of President Donald Trump.
Perhaps the most accurate assessment of the nation wide protests, was provided by the highly respected, Leftist leaning journalist, Rachel Maddow. Her report was rather long and disjointed, but I have chosen to transcribe the pertinent portions. As she stated:
‘’The demographics of these crowds are shifting the political landscape in real time. This is no longer just a coalition of traditional political activists. The footage coming into our newsroom shows massive suburban ground swells. We are seeing a profound intersection of working class families, union members, health care advocates and ordinary citizens, who have reached a breaking point, with the current administration. Crowd scientists and municipal authorities are projecting that by nightfall, between fifteen and twenty million Americans will have participated in these peaceful marches. This completely dwarfs the previous mobilizations we saw, back in June and October of last year. During those earlier protests, the administration attempted to counter the public outcry, with aggressive displays of state power, running localized military drills, and attempting to stage counter programming parades, to intimidate demonstrators. Those tactics have completely failed. Today the administration is facing a citizenry that has simply refused to be broken, standing shoulder to shoulder, in a stunning rebuke of authoritarianism.’’
It is to the credit of Maddow that she mentions the ‘’working class’’, while at the same time, apparently drawing a distinction between that class and ‘’union members, health care advocates and ordinary citizens’’. There is no such distinction! All of those people are working class! Yet she makes the point that the movement is broad based, with ever more people, from various walks of life, becoming politically active.
RM:’’The central demand of the millions marching today, is deeply rooted in the fundamental principles of the American republic, the absolute rejection of autocratic rule, and the dismantling of what the protesters are calling the oligarch class.’’
Here we have a reference to the ‘’oligarch class’’. This is a reference to the ruling class of monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, technically referred to as the bourgeoisie. The fact that the people taking part in these protests are now expressing themselves in class terms, is most encouraging. It shows a growing awareness of the existence of classes.
By comparison, during the Occupy Movement of 2011, the protesters referred to themselves, the ‘’common people’’, as the ‘’99 percent’’, as opposed to the ‘’tiny minority’’, those who are ‘’filthy rich’’, as the ‘’1 percent’’. In Scientific Socialist terms, this is referred to as ‘’class consciousness in embryonic form’’.
The current expression of ‘’oligarch class’’ can be considered to be a step forward, towards the awareness of the existence of the working class, the proletariat, as a class, as opposed to the existence of the capitalist class, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, whom they refer to as the oligarch class.
It is a basic tenet of Marxism, that the working class, the proletariat, is not aware of itself, as a class! This class awareness must be brought to the working class. Maddow should have explained that the ‘’oligarch class’’ is really the class of monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie.
RM: ’’The outrage is completely palpable. Citizens are marching for universal access to health care, the right to afford a home, and the basic dignity of a living wage. They are demanding a return to a society that prioritizes human life over corporate extraction.’’
Here too, Maddow is absolutely correct. That is precisely the demands of the protesters. Not that those demands are about to be met, as we live under a state of monopoly capitalism, technically referred to as imperialism, and imperialism is ‘’reaction right down the line’’, as Lenin explained in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. For that reason, it is necessary to overthrow the monopoly capitalists, smash the existing state apparatus, and crush the monopoly capitalists, the bourgeoisie, under a state of Scientific Socialism, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat! The working class must be made aware of this.
RM: ’’But beneath these broad economic demands, is a furious targeted anger, directed at the deeply disturbing associations and actions of the highest levels of the government. We are seeing thousands of signs in the crowd today, specifically calling out the administrator, active protection of individuals associated with high profile sex trafficking networks. The public has not forgotten the Jeffrey Epstein files, and the anger has reached a boiling point, over the administration’s blatant efforts to shield the guilty. Protesters are actively calling out the president’s inner circle… who are known to have travelled to Epstein’s Island. The public is furious that these individuals are not facing criminal scrutiny, but are instead being shielded by the highest office in the land.’’
In an attempt to divert the revolutionary movement, of the working class, away from the ‘’Epstein Scandal’’, Trump decided to start a war with Iran! That is the reason the working people are referring to that war as the ‘’Epstein Fury’’! President Donald Trump, as the leader of his class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, has decided to stoop to the depth of waging war, in order to protect the members of his class who are child molesters, pedophiles. The slaughter of thousands of people, mainly innocent civilians, including women and children, is of no concern to the bourgeoisie! They are concerned only with their wealth and power! That is the fact which must be driven home to the working class! That is reason they must be overthrown and crushed, under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!
RM: ’’This anger was severely compounded by the actions of administration loyalists ….who orchestrated the transfer of Ghislaine Maxwell to minimum security ‘Club Fed’ facilities. The American people are watching the justice system being actively manipulated, to protect a cabal of wealthy predators, and they are demanding the immediate appointment of an independent special prosecutor, to tear open the Epstein files once and for all.’’
Reality check! The same people who gave us the war in the Middle East, as a means of protecting the child molesting members of the class of monopoly capitalists, are not about to submit to the ‘’appointment of a special prosecutor’’!
RM: ’’This domestic corruption is playing out against the backdrop of a catastrophic and rapidly expanding foreign policy disaster. The administration has rushed headlong into a brutal, highly controversial war, along side Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, against Iran. The intelligence and ground reports coming out of the region, detail absolute horrors. The military campaign has not been limited to strategic defence targets. We are receiving confirmed reports of airstrikes, decimating elementary schools, resulting in the mass casualties of children, including the deaths of 165 young girls, in a single coordinated bombing campaign. Furthermore, the military operations have aggressively targeted vital civilian infrastructure, desalination plants necessary for basic drinking water, and regional electrical grids have been completely destroyed, plunging millions of innocent civilians into dark, lethal conditions. International observers are openly classifying these actions as war crimes, and the violence has only continued to spread, heavily impacting civilian populations across Beirut, Lebanon and Gaza.’’
Absolutely correct! Maddow has accurately described the horrors of modern warfare, which are a natural result of monopoly capitalism. She even made the connection between the ‘’domestic corruption’’, within the Trump administration, and that ‘’highly controversial war’’. She neglected to mention that such ‘’domestic corruption’’ and ‘’controversial war’’ will continue, as long as the monopoly capitalists remain in power!
RM: ’’While the administration pours billions of dollars and military resources into these foreign conflicts, under the guise of being peace makers, the domestic economy is buckling. The citizens marching today are facing crushing, surging inflation. The dream of home ownership has evaporated, for the working class, and while the public struggles to afford basic groceries, the federal government is heavily subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, in a manner that defies all modern economic and environment logic.’’
This is most emphatically true. She could have added that the national debt is now approaching forty trillion dollars! As such, it cannot possibly be paid off. It is simply a matter of managing the debt! For that reason, the plan is for the interest on that debt, to be paid by future generations! That crushing debt is to be passed on to our children and grand children! So much for the ‘’American dream’’!
RM: ’’Protesters today are demanding immediate and severe reforms to the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and the Border Patrol. These agencies are being deployed in American cities, using tactics that lawmakers are openly comparing to the Gestapo. We are seeing federal agents operating outside the bounds of constitutional law, utilizing terror tactics in suburban neighbourhoods. …’’
Here too, Maddow is absolutely correct. And yes, the protesters are demanding ‘’immediate and severe reforms’’. Which is not about to happen! Those who ‘’operate outside the law’’, employing ‘’Gestapo tactics’’, are not about to ‘’have a change of heart’’, and become law abiding citizens! They are merely part of the existing state apparatus, which has been set up to crush the working class, the proletariat.
For that reason, it is a fundamental tenet of Scientific Socialism, otherwise known as Marxism or Communism, 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! This can only take place after the ruling class of monopoly capitalists, the bourgeoisie, are overthrown! And that requires a Revolution! A Second American Revolution!
RM:’’The legislative branch has completely surrendered its constitutional power of the purse, to the executive. The Republicans created a crisis, starved federal workers of their paychecks, and then allowed the president to bypass Congress entirely, to look like a saviour, fundamentally breaking the separation of powers. …’’
True, the ‘’legislative branch’’, which is to say both Houses of Congress, have abdicated their authority to the executive branch, to President Trump and his flunkies. Bear in mind that both mainstream political parties, Republican and Democratic, serve the same class, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie! To portray the Democrats as the ‘’Good Guys’’, the guys who ‘’wear the white hats’’, as opposed to the ‘’Bad Guys’’, the guys who ‘’wear the black hats’’, as in the old time Hollywood Western movies, is utterly ridiculous! Yet that is precisely what the mainstream press would have us believe! And not just the mainstream press. Also a great many Leftist journalists, including Rachel Maddow!
RM: ’’Senator Bernie Sanders delivered a speech that has become the defining manifesto of these protests. He explicitly named (certain individuals) identifying them as the architects of a hijacked economic system. Sanders reminded the public that the American republic was founded in the seventeen seventies, on the explicit rejection of the divine right of kings. and he warned that the nation must now reject the divine right of modern oligarchs. These billionaires have funded the current political regime and in return, they have seen their wealth and unaccountable power multiply exponentially, while working families are crushed under the weight of inflation and systemic corruption.’’
Once again, Maddow has succeeded in ‘’hitting the nail on the head’’, to phrase it in popular terms. Truly, Senator Sanders has emerged as a leader of the ‘’common people’’, the ‘’little guy’’, as working people refer to themselves. The fact that he refers to himself as an ‘’Independent Socialist’’, is part of the reason for his popularity.
Sanders is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, the DSA. As I have documented in a previous article, the DSA is ‘’Socialist in name only’’. Their mission statement makes it clear that they are fighting only for democracy and reforms. They make no mention of socialism! Yet as the working people are spontaneously gravitating towards Socialism, they are embracing Sanders, as he claims to be a Socialist! He in turn, is offering them paltry reforms, rather than Socialism!
Allow me to add that the American people have every reason to be proud of their revolutionary history. The country was created through revolutionary struggle, the war of the Colonial aristocracy, against the rule of the British monarchy. That was followed by the war against the completely reactionary class of slave owners, from 1861 to 1865. They are now building upon that revolutionary history, with their current struggle against the completely reactionary class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie. This will soon break out into open class warfare.
It is rather strange that Maddow made no mention of another demand of the protesters, that of the removal of Trump, as President. They are calling for his impeachment. As he was impeached twice before, during his first term as President, but not convicted and removed from office, perhaps she is of the opinion that such a demand is pointless. And perhaps she is correct.
It is further very likely that the protesters are not aware of the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution. As few of them are ‘’Philadelphia lawyers’’, that is to be expected. So it is a simple matter of explaining this to them. After all, neither are they psychics! They absolutely cannot read minds!
With that in mind, I can briefly summarize that which I have covered in a previous article. The Twelfth Amendment sets out the procedure to be followed in all federal elections! There in no presidential election; no popular vote; no running mate; no president elect; no mention of any political party; it is up to the Electors, the Members of the Electoral College, to vote for the individual of their choice, for the office of President, and to vote for the individual of their choice, for the office of Vice President; any and all state laws which infringe upon the voting of the Electors, is Unconstitutional!
This is to say that the 2024 ‘’Presidential Election’’ was fraudulent! Donald Trump is a fraudulent President, just as JD Vance is a fraudulent Vice President! There is no need to impeach Donald Trump! Nor would it do any good! It has not worked before, and it will not work again! So quit trying! Instead, take the capitalists at their word! They say that if we do not like the way things are, we should ‘’change the system from within’’. Use their system against them. Hire an attorney, an expert on Constitutional law, and legally challenge the 2024 Presidential Election, on the grounds that it did not follow the procedure laid out in the Twelfth Amendment. Demand that both Trump and Vance be removed from office, to be replaced by the Speaker of the House, as per Constitutional Law. Be prepared to make these arguments before the Supreme Court.
Such a court challenge, to the Presidency of Donald Trump, is certain to attract the attention of all members of the press, both mainstream and Leftist. With good reason, I might add. No doubt almost all members of the public, from the most avidly Right Wing MAGA supporters, to the most radical Left Wing self styled Socialists, of all persuasions, will be following those proceedings. In the process, the working people will receive an education.
Our ultimate goal is not to remove both Trump and Vance from office, although that would be so nice, but to raise the level of awareness of the working class, the proletariat. We want to make them class conscious, aware that they are the members of a class, with interests that are diametrically opposed to the interests of the capitalist class.
Further, we can expect Trump to assist us, in this less than noble endeavour. He can be counted upon to oppose such a court challenge, in any way possible. Even if the Supreme Court ruled in our favour, Trump can be counted upon to defy the highest court in the land.
In such a manner, the working class will learn, from their own experience, that the Scientific Socialists, the Communists, are correct. The monopoly capitalist class, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, are in charge, and fully intend to remain in charge.
This will help to give the proper direction to the revolutionary motion of the American working class. They are currently following proudly in the footsteps of their ancestors. These ‘’No Kings Protests’’ are nothing other than a revolutionary movement, a mere prelude to the Second American Revolution.
This begs the question: After the current regime is overthrown, what form of government will replace the existing American ‘’democratic’’ republic? (Bear in mind that it is democratic in name only.)
To answer that question, we have got to face the fact that society develops according to certain laws! It does not develop haphazardly, according to the whims and impulses of certain individuals, regardless of how well meaning those people may be. We know this for a fact, because throughout history, numerous people have attempted to force society to adapt to their understanding of perfection. All such attempts have failed, most miserably. As I have covered this in a previous article, there is no need to repeat it here.
It was Karl Marx who first conducted a thorough, scientific examination of society in general, and capitalism is particular. As I have previously stated, based on that study, Marx proved that capitalism would give rise to Socialism. This is to stress the fact that Marx was a Scientific Socialist. In fact, he spelled it out quite clearly, in his letter to Weydemeyer, in 1852. As Marx stated:
‘’And now as to myself, no credit is due to me for discovering the existence of classes in modern society, nor yet the struggle between them. Long before me, bourgeois historians had described the historical development of this class struggle, and bourgeois economists the economic anatomy of the classes. What I did that was new was to prove: 1) that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular historical phases in the development of production; 2) that the class struggle necessarily leads to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat; 3) that this Dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.’’ (my italics)
It is significant that it was bourgeois historianswho first discovered theexistence of classes in modern society, as well as the struggle between them. This class struggle is perfectly acceptable to the bourgeoisie. That which is not acceptable is the Marxist theory that the class struggle necessarily leads to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!
For that reason, all mainstream journalists are allowed, even encouraged, to report on the details of the class struggle, including mass protests. The same is largely true of those who are rather politely referred to as ‘’Leftist journalists’’. That which is not allowed is any reference to any of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. And rest assured, the Marxist theory of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, is absolutely not allowed!
It is completely understandable that the journalists who work for the mainstream press, should avoid any mention of those Marxist revolutionary theories, as if it ‘’were an infectious disease’’. That which is not so understandable is the fact that the Leftist journalists, even the best of them- and Rachel Maddow is one of the best!- also avoid any mention of those same theories! All are careful to stay within the bounds of that which the bourgeois find to be acceptable.
Now we have the answer to our question, as to the form of government which will take shape, after the revolution, after the ruling class of monopoly capitalists is overthrown, and after the existing state apparatus is smashed. As classes will continue to exist, a state apparatus is still required, in order to crush the desperate and determined resistance of the bourgeois, as they make every effort to ‘’restore their paradise lost’’.
The new Scientific Socialist society will establish a new state apparatus, with the goal of crushing the bourgeoisie, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
This is not to say that the people taking part in this, the Second American Revolution, are aware of this fact. How can they be aware of this? After all, the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin- or more accurately, the distortion of those revolutionary theories- are taught only in Universities. As the vast majority of working class people are unable to attend University, they are not even exposed to those distortions.
Yet the working class has to be made aware of this fact. So who is to bring them this awareness? The answer is contained 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 .’’
In my opinion, the ‘’class struggle is near the decisive hour’’. The ruling class of monopoly capitalists are now deeply divided, and the revolutionary motion has ‘’assumed a violent, glaring character’’. We can expect a ‘’portion of the bourgeois ideologists’’, to ‘’go over to the proletariat’’, to explain their understanding of the class struggle, including the necessity of overthrowing the completely reactionary class of monopoly capitalists, the bourgeoisie, of smashing the existing state apparatus, and replacing it with a new state apparatus, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!
This is referred to as Scientific Socialism, otherwise known as Communism. A clear distinction must be drawn between Scientific Socialists, and Utopian Socialists. Such ‘’Socialists’’ include those who refer to themselves as Independent Socialists, or Democratic Socialists, or simply as Socialists. All are of the opinion that ‘’Socialism may be a fine idea, but is simply not practical.’’ For that reason, they tend to fight for our democratic rights and paltry reforms, which is fine. The fact that they persist in referring to themselves as Socialists, is not acceptable. It merely spreads confusion among the working people.
It is necessary to raise the level of awareness of the working class. The most advanced workers must be raised to the level of true Scientific Socialists, Communists. They in turn will bring this awareness, including that of the necessity of Revolution and the subsequent Dictatorship of the Proletariat, to the less advanced workers. That is where certain bourgeois ideologists come into the picture.
Only those bourgeois ideologists who are capable of honesty, are able to ‘’raise themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically’’, the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. For that reason, that ‘’portion’’ of bourgeois ideologists will be rather small, as few are capable of honesty. Yet their reward, after the Revolution, will be considerable, as their services will be in demand.
As the strength of the revolutionary movement continues to intensify, it is clear that a full scale insurrection is imminent. This will mark the beginning of the Second American Revolution. The success of that Revolution will depend largely upon the class consciousness of the working class. It is the duty of Scientific Socialists, true Communists, to make sure that at least the most advanced workers embrace the basic tenets of Scientific Socialism. This includes the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
With Most Sincere Scientific Socialist, Communist Greetings
Gerald McIsaac
Gerald McIsaac Science Project 