Concerning Doomsday Prophets 

The idea that our civilization is ‘’about to collapse’’, that we are on the ‘’eve of destruction’’, that we are ‘’close to the end time’’, is nothing new. On the contrary, numerous ‘’Doomsday Prophets’’ have been preaching this for hundreds of years. Previously, all such ‘’Prophets’’ have been deeply disappointed, when the world did not ‘’come to an end’’, on their appointed dates. 

Recent advances in science and technology, as a result of our modern civilization, have not spared us from such nonsense. The modern day ‘’Prophets’’ have merely adapted their rhetoric, now phrasing their predictions in more ‘’scientific’’ terms. 

One of the methods they use, is to present certain facts, such as the length of time certain empires existed, and their analysis of the events which led to their decline and eventual collapse. These ‘’events’’ they tend to refer to as ‘’stages’’, which invariably lead to the  subsequent ‘’reversion to a state of barbarism’’. It is further their opinion that our civilization is in the ‘’late stages of decline’’, ‘’close to collapse’’. They would have us believe that a ‘’Second Stone Age’’ is ‘’right around the corner’’!

As this nonsense is now wide spread, and being propagated by bourgeois scholars, people who are of considerable education, it deserves our attention. The reason for this, is that working class people tend to have the greatest respect for those with University degrees.

In particular, they are alleging that one of the top Universities in the country, has predicted that our society will ‘’collapse in the year 2040’’. They base this prediction on the conclusion that ‘’our current usage of the world’s resources was unsustainable’’. As a means of ‘’adding weight’’ to their findings, they mention that ‘’the study was one of the first to use computers, sporting dynamic systematic models’’. Whatever that means!

The narrator went on to explain that ‘’system dynamics’’ is a ‘’piece of software that attempts to replicate the workings of complex real life systems by replicating them in software’’. He further added that this study took place ‘’in the nineteen sixties and seventies’’.

Allow me to add that a ‘’piece of software’’ is merely a computer program, a bit of information which is fed into a computer. As all electrical engineers can testify, a computer merely runs programs. All computers are merely as accurate as the programs which they are running. If the information the computers are initially given is faulty, then the conclusions they reach, as a result of their calculations, are also faulty. 

Without doubt, it was bourgeois scientists, of yesteryear, who attempted to ‘’replicate the workings of complex real life systems’’, in a computer program. Equally without doubt, they failed miserably. 

This is not too surprising, as all scientists are well aware that ‘’generally accepted scientific theories’’, are not to be challenged. The penalty for challenging any such theory, is ‘’career suicide’’. Such people are never again allowed to earn a living, working in any field of science.

This brings us to the Scientific Socialist Revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. All scientists are exposed to those theories in University, as it is only the distortion of those theories that is ‘’taught’’. The fact that Marx proved, through a thorough analysis of capitalism, that it would, of necessity, lead to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, is denied, to this day. That is the key detail which is lacking, in the programs of all computers. 

To briefly summarize that which I have documented in previous articles, around three hundred years ago, the industrial revolution took place. Historians have described this as the most important thing to happen to humanity, since the domestication of plants and animals.

This is most emphatically true. The bourgeois scholars quite cheerfully point out the fact that this made possible the mass production of countless articles. It also allowed a class of people, known as ‘’burghers’’, merchants of the middle ages, to invest their money in various enterprises, including factories, mills, mines and other ‘’means of production’’, as well as railroads, shipping companies, and other ‘’means of transportation’’, not to mention banks, credit unions and other ‘’financial institutions’’, so that they became supremely wealthy. 

In the process, these burghers became transformed, from being members of a class of merchants, to members of a class of capitalists, referred to as ‘’bourgeois’’. In the process, a second class of people was created, as no class can exist in isolation. This ‘’antipode’’ to the capitalist class, was a working class, technically referred to as that of  ‘’proletarians’’. Such people, who were formerly farmers and craftsmen, also became transformed, into ‘’hourly employees’’, selling themselves by the hour. 

This creation of two new classes of people, both revolutionary, at least at first, is the one thing that bourgeois scholars choose to ignore. 

It was Marx and Engels who described this supremely well, in the Communist Manifesto. Further, it was Lenin who conducted a most thorough, scientific examination of capitalism, in its current stage of monopoly, referred to as imperialism. He concluded that monopoly capitalism is completely reactionary, that it has absolutely no progressive features. He documented this most carefully, in his work, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.

In proportion as the monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, rot and decay, the class opposite to them, their ‘’antipode’’, the working class, the proletariat, becomes ever more progressive, ever more revolutionary! Now we are at the point where the ruling class of monopoly capitalists, the bourgeoisie, can no longer rule in the ‘’old way’’, and are being forced to change their method of rule. This is largely due to the fact that the working class, the proletariat, is now supremely cultured, no longer willing to ‘’swallow the lies’’ of the multi billionaires, and are demanding change.

Of course, the ‘’change’’ the multi billionaires have in mind, is that of a ‘’Rule of Those Most Qualified to Rule’’, by whom they mean themselves. In other words, the rule of an Oligarchy. 

Yet in all fairness to those Doomsday Prophets, the fact of the matter is that they have a point. All previous civilizations have come into existence, risen to a peak, and then fallen into decay, finally collapsing. 

As for those who are of the opinion that it could not possibly happen to our civilization, may I draw your attention to the fact that, as I have documented in a previous article, there existed in Egypt, possibly twelve thousand years ago, a civilization which rivalled our own. They were so advanced, they even used electricity! Yet that civilization truly collapsed, reverting right back to the Stone Age!

There is absolutely no chance of such a ‘’reversion’’ happening to our civilization, as our civilization- and only our civilization!- has experienced an industrial revolution. For that reason, we are now blessed with a revolutionary working class, a proletariat. 

As Marx so clearly stated, it is the revolutionary proletariat, which is destined to overthrow the completely reactionary class of monopoly capitalists, the bourgeoisie, smash the existing state apparatus, and set up a new state apparatus, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat! Such a new state apparatus is required, as after the Revolution, under a state of Scientific Socialism, classes will continue to exist. The former multi billionaires will make every effort to ‘’restore their paradise lost’’. Unless they are completely crushed, they will return to power, as happened in the Soviet Union, and in China. 

After the approaching American Revolution, we are determined to not repeat the mistakes of previous Scientific Socialists. Even though Great Revolutionaries, they were still human. As such, they made mistakes. We all do that. Now it is our duty to learn from those mistakes. In that way, we will be sure to exercise ‘’all round’’, complete Dictatorship over the bourgeoisie. The American monopoly capitalists will never again return to power!

With Most Sincere Communist Greetings, 

Gerald McIsaac