Author: Gerald Mcisaac

The recently completed Midterm Elections of 2026, have highlighted a few rather important details, concerning the revolutionary motion currently sweeping the country. The fact that the Democratic Party succeeded in taking control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, in each case with a rather strong majority, indicates that the working class, the proletariat, has ‘’moved to the Left’’, as the Leftist journalists phrase it. In fact, the working class is losing faith in the current government, in the form of the democratic republic. They have become convinced, from years of bitter experience, that regardless of which candidate wins the election, nothing will change. A great many of them voted for the Democratic candidates, not because they thought that the Democrats would properly represent them, but because they consider the Democrats to be the lesser of two evils. In fact, the working class is spontaneously gravitating towards socialism.

There are a great many ‘’new faces’’ currently heading for Washington, preparing to be ‘’sworn in’’ as Members of the ‘’new Congress’’, on January 3. Most of these people are either members of the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America, or have been elected as a result of their endorsement. Clearly, the DSA is a powerful political force, in the country.

These new Members of Congress are widely expected to join the ‘’Leftist Caucus’’ in Washington, a group of politicians who are commonly referred to as ‘’The Squad’’. That remains to be seen.

It has also become clear that Bernie Sanders, a self styled Socialist and an ‘’Independent’’ Senator, from the state of Vermont, has emerged as a spokesman for the American Left. He is convinced that the ‘’new Congress’’, soon to be sworn in, and under the control of the Democrats, will succeed in dramatically raising the standard of living, of the working class. His plan is to persuade that new Congress to ‘’tax the super wealthy’’, those who ‘’have more money than they can ever hope to spend in a thousand lifetimes’’, and invest that money in programs for the working class.

That is certainly a ‘’happy thought’’, and Sanders is quite persuasive in his defence of this policy. He speaks clearly and passionately, without resorting to vulgarity. Properly so, I might add. He argues that the Congress has every right to impose taxes, and to spend that money as it sees fit. Those rights and responsibilities are clearly spelled out in the Constitution.

The arguments that Sanders puts forward are correct, and must be respected. Which in no way changes the fact that his plan for the ‘’new Democratic controlled Congress’’, to ‘’dramatically raise the standard of living of the working class’’, is a mere ‘’pipe dream’’. That is not about to happen!

Working people must be made aware of the fact that Sanders is a Utopian Socialist! He is not a Scientific Socialist! There is a huge difference between the two! Utopian Socialists are of the opinion that socialism is merely a ‘’good idea’’. They are further of the opinion that it is a simple matter of establishing a ‘’democratic republic’’, complete with ‘’universal suffrage’’, which implies ‘’majority rule’’, so that sufficient reforms can be legislated, resulting in a state of Socialism. If only that were true! In fact, a state of Socialism cannot exist under capitalism!

It was Karl Marx who conducted a detailed, thorough, scientific examination of capitalism, in the mid to late nineteenth century, at a time when capitalism was in its early, pre monopoly, competitive stage.

Allow me to stress the fact that Marx was a Scientific Socialist! His revolutionary theories were conclusions, based upon a thorough examination of capitalism. 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)

Allow me to add that Lenin conducted a similar examination of capitalism, in the early twentieth century, during the time that it reached the monopoly stage, that of imperialism, at least in Western Europe. The conclusions of these two great Scientific Socialists, are referred to as Scientific Socialism, also known as Communism, or as Marxism-Leninism. It is the duty of all Communists to draw a clear distinction, between Scientific Socialism and Utopian Socialism.

It should be added that we respect the personal beliefs of all common people! That includes those who consider themselves to be socialists, of one form or another. Yet Sanders is not to be confused with a ‘’common person’’. On the contrary, he is a highly respected American Senator, and widely recognized as the leader of the ‘’Left’’. He is also advocating a peaceful transition to socialism, through Democratic control of Congress. For that reason, it is our duty to oppose his heresy, using the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin.

With that in mind, may I suggest that working people read an article titled, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. It was written by Friedrich Engels, a close friend and collaborator of Marx. It is considered to be a masterpiece, and is written in a popular manner.

No doubt, numerous working class people will take exception to this article, as it starts from the assumption that humans have evolved from apes. So many people are of the opinion that God created humans, pure and simple.

Allow me to reassure such people that we are all entitled to our personal beliefs. No one, or at least no self respecting Scientific Socialist, would dare to suggest otherwise. We can suggest that all workers put their personal beliefs aside, when considering the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. One such theory is that the state apparatus, the ‘’government’’, has been established with the sole purpose of crushing and exploiting the ‘’lower classes’’, and in particular, the working class. For that reason, it cannot be used to emancipate the working class! Engels explains this quite clearly, in this article.

In his article, Engels explains that before civilization, there was a rather lengthy period of time, in fact thousands of years, commonly referred to as the ‘’Stone Age’’, during which there were no classes. As well, there was no family unit, no private property and no state apparatus. It was a time of ‘’hunter-gatherers’’, in that each day, the necessities of life had to be either killed or gathered. Each and every person had to ‘’pull their own weight’’, or end up wishing they had! There was never a surplus. Slackards were not tolerated. Those who were lazy or simply trouble makers were first warned, and either mended their ways, or were kicked out of the group. This almost always resulted in a death sentence, as an individual had almost no chance of survival, under those circumstances.

The social structure of each group reflected the stage of development of that particular group. Of course, as people in various parts of the world came up with the same inventions, such as weaving baskets and using fire, the social structure changed. Yet it was only at the point where people learned to grow crops and domesticate animals, that a surplus was created. This was the start of civilization.

Almost immediately, the first classes came into existence. Certain individuals, those who were blessed with a surplus, were not content with this. Instead, they decided to further enrich themselves, at the expense of their neighbours. With the assistance of a few friends, they set out to separate those people of their hard earned property. If nothing else, they could separate them from their freedom. And they did. Those who owned people became known as ‘’slave owners’’, while those who were owned became known as ‘’slaves’’.

Yet the slaves were not at all anxious to embrace their new life of constant toil, without reward, or even any hope of anything better. For that reason, they frequently took part in rebellions. The slave owners responded to these ‘’displays of ingratitude’’, as they saw it, by sending out men, usually on horseback, armed with swords and spears. Their sole purpose was to crush the slaves. In this way, the first ‘’state apparatus’’ was created.

Since those early days of civilization, different classes have come into existence. These include the nobility, and the corresponding class of commoners. The family farmers, and the corresponding class of landlords. The latest classes include the capitalists, or bourgeois, and the corresponding class of workers, or proletarians.

As these different classes came into existence, different forms of the state apparatus were created. At no point did the function of that state apparatus change. Just as the first state apparatus was designed to crush the ‘’lower class’’ of slaves, so too, the current state apparatus is designed to crush the ‘’lower classes’’ of workers and family farmers.

Now our current ruling class is composed of the monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, commonly referred to as the ‘’Oligarchy’’. Their method of rule involves the ‘’democratic republic’’, including the Congress. In scientific terms, this is referred to as the ‘’state apparatus’’. The sole purpose of this state apparatus, remains the same as it was in the time of slavery. To keep the ‘’lower classes’’ in submission.

That is the reason the advice of Bernie Sanders, that of using the Congress against the ruling class of multi billionaires, is completely absurd. The ruling class of multi billionaires are not about to allow the state apparatus, which they created with the sole purpose of crushing the working class, to  be used against them!

Now it is a matter of making the working class aware of this. Instead, the ruling class of Oligarchy must be overthrown, the existing state apparatus smashed, and replaced with a new state apparatus, in the form of Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

We will know that we are being successful, when the expression Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat become common place.

With Most Sincere Communist Greetings,

Gerald McIsaac

For the benefit of certain members of the working class, those who have just recently become politically active, I should mention that the United States of America is commonly referred to as ‘’America’’, and the citizens of that country refer to themselves as ‘’Americans’’. Even though the terms are not completely accurate, I have chosen to use them, out of respect for the American working people.

The ‘’Founding Fathers’’ of that country, were true revolutionaries, a far sighted group of men. They were careful to establish a new government with three distinct ‘’branches’’, each with a unique set of responsibilities, and the ability to limit the others. This division of power is referred to as a set of ‘’checks and balances’’. These laws were enshrined in the ‘’American Constitution’’, a truly revolutionary document.

The most visible branch is that of the ‘’Executive’’, and is composed of the President, Vice President, and members of his Cabinet. It is the duty of the Executive branch to ‘’enforce and carry out laws’’. The President is also the ‘’Head of State’’, and ‘’Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces’’. He also oversees federal agencies, negotiates treaties with other countries, and can ‘’Veto’’ Congressional legislation. Both the President and Vice President serve four year terms. The election of the executive branch is commonly referred to as a ‘’Presidential Election’’. Even though the term is not completely accurate, I have chosen to go with it, as it is so widely used.

The elections of the legislative branch, which take place between the Presidential elections, are referred to as ‘’Midterm Elections’.

The ‘’Legislative Branch’’ is referred to as the ‘’Congress’’, and is modelled after the British Parliament. The Congress is composed of the ‘’House of Representatives’’ and the ‘’Senate’’. The ‘’House’’ is composed of 435 ‘’Members’’, each serving a two year term. In Britain, a similar organization is referred to as the ‘’House of Commons’’.

The ‘’Senate’’ is composed of one hundred members, two from each state, each serving a six year term. Such an organization in Britain is referred to as the ‘’House of Lords’’.

The House of Representatives is commonly referred to as the Congress, while the expression ‘’Both Houses of Congress’’ is a reference to the House and Senate. It is the duty of the ‘’Legislative Branch’’ to ‘’Make Laws’’, otherwise known as ‘’Legislation’’. They also approve the federal budget, confirm presidential appointments and treaties, can impeach and remove federal officials, and have the authority to declare war.

The ‘’Judicial Branch’’ is composed of the Supreme Court and Federal Courts. There are nine Supreme Court Justices, each serving a lifetime term. It is their duty to ensure that all laws passed, as well as all ‘’Executive actions’’, are legal, within the ‘’bounds of the Constitution’’.

For the purposes of this article, allow me to stress the fact that the Congress controls the money, and only the Congress can declare war!

May I also stress the fact that the last time war was declared, was in 1941! World War Two! America went to war with both Japan and Germany. All subsequent wars, in which America was engaged, have been illegal! Unconstitutional!

What happened? What went wrong? What did not happen? How is it that the series of ‘’checks and balances’’, which the American Forefathers so thoughtfully placed in the Constitution, failed to prevent various Presidents from going to war? In direct violation of the Constitution!

The members of the legislative branch, in both Houses of Congress, have abdicated their authority! They have allowed the President to usurp their authority! The problem is not that the series of ‘’checks and balances’’, which were so carefully placed in the Constitution, do not work! The problem is that the democratically elected leaders, in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, are not performing their duty! They must be held accountable! Further, as a result of the revolutionary motion currently sweeping the country, countless common people, both workers and farmers, have become politically active, demanding change.

That is the reason the Midterm Elections are of such critical importance. No longer apathetic, a great many of them are at least ‘’casting a ballot’’, perhaps for the first time in their lives. Quite reasonably, they expect those who win the election, regardless of the political party, to perform their duty!

Granted, there are numerous Scientific Socialists, well meaning Communists, who are of the opinion that the Midterm Elections ‘’do not concern us’’, that they are of ‘’no importance’’. The reason they say this, is because they consider ‘’bourgeois democracy to be historically obsolete’’. Such an attitude is fundamentally flawed.

Lenin covers this supremely well in his article, Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder, written in 1920, two and one half years after the Great Russian Soviet Socialist October Revolution, otherwise known as the ‘’October Revolution’’.

The significance of that Revolution cannot be overstated! But perhaps it would be best to give the opinion of Lenin, concerning that subject. Bear in mind that, in 1917, Russia was subjected to two Revolutions! In February of that year, the first spontaneous Revolution forced Tsar Nicholas to step down, to ‘’abdicate the throne’’. This gave birth to a ‘’democratic republic’’, as the nobility was no longer the ruling class, the common people were represented by a parliament, referred to as a ‘’Duma’’, or as a ‘’Constituent Assembly’’, and all citizens had some ‘’democratic rights’’, at least ‘’on paper’’.

That was as far as the working class could go! They had reached the limit of their ability! The ruling class of nobility, in the family of the Romanovs, which had crushed and exploited them for three hundred years, was on longer in power! It was a huge step in the right direction, but only a step! The new ruling classes of landlords and capitalists, continued to crush and exploit them. And yet the working class people of Russia did not know- and could not know!- that they were destined to overthrow the landlords and capitalists, and to crush them, under a state of Scientific Socialism, in the form of Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

It is one thing for the working class to be destined to assume political power, and something else entirely to be made aware of this! The conditions of life of the working class, the proletariat, do not lead to the awareness of itself, as a class, with its own class interests. Further, the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin are taught only in University, and then only with a view to distorting those theories!

It is the duty of Scientific Socialist, true Communists, to make the working class aware of these revolutionary theories, and at the same time, to raise the level of awareness of the most advanced workers, to that of Scientific Socialists!

That was precisely the problem that Lenin faced, immediately after the successful Russian February Revolution of 1917. In order to carry the Revolution forward, to overthrow the landlords and capitalists, it was first necessary to raise the level of awareness of the working class, the proletariat, as well as the family farmers. The Communist Party, at that time referred to as the ‘’Bolsheviks’’, managed to do this, within the space of a few short months. The subsequent ‘’October Revolution’’ of 1917, led to a state of Scientific Socialism, in the form of Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. As Lenin stated:

‘’The revolutions of February and October 1917, led to the all round development of the Soviets on a nation wide scale, and to their victory in the proletariat socialist revolution. In less than two years, the international character of the Soviets, the spread of this form of struggle and organization to the world working class movement, and the historical mission of the Soviets as the grave digger, heir and successor of bourgeois parliamentarianism and of bourgeois democracy in general, all became clear.’’

It was only after the successful Scientific Socialist Revolution of October, that workers ‘’around the world’’, embraced Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Truly, ‘’seeing is believing’’! Lenin went on to state:

‘’The proletarian vanguard has been won over ideologically. That is the main thing. Without this, not even the first step towards victory can be made. But that is still quite a long way from victory. Victory cannot be won with a vanguard alone.’’

The astute reader may object that the situation has changed, and quite dramatically. True! The ‘’proletarian vanguard’’ is no longer ‘’won over ideologically’’. This is due, in no small part, to the temporary reversals which have taken place, in the formerly socialist republics of the Soviet Union and China. We do not deny that the capitalists have managed to return to power, due to the mistakes which were made, by both Stalin and Mao. As I have gone into this in previous articles, there is no need to repeat it here. Suffice it to say that it is now our duty to learn from those mistakes, so as to avoid a repetition.

Our ‘’immediate goal’’ now, is to ‘’win over the proletarian vanguard ideologically’’. Which is not to say the ‘’broad masses’’ must be neglected! On the contrary, we have to set ourselves the goal of raising the most advanced workers to the level of Scientific Socialists, while at the same time convincing the ‘’vast majority’’ of the workers, of the correctness of our policy. As Lenin stated:

‘’As long as it was (and inasmuch as it still is) a question of winning the proletariat’s vanguard over the the side of communism, priority went and still goes to propaganda work; even propaganda circles, with all their parochial limitations, are useful under these conditions, and produce good results. But when it is a question of practical action by the masses, of the disposition, if one may so put it, of vast armies, of the alignment of all the class forces in a given society for the final and decisive battle, then propagandist methods alone, the mere repetition of the truths of ‘pure’ communism, are of no avail. In these circumstances, one must not count in thousands, like the propagandist belonging to a small group that has not not yet given leadership to the masses; in these circumstances, one must count in millions and tens of millions. In these circumstances, we must ask ourselves, not only whether we have convinced the vanguard of the revolutionary class, but also whether the historically effective forces of all classes- positively of all the classes in a given society, without exception- are arrayed in such a way that the decisive battle is at hand- in such a way that: (1) all the class forces hostile to us have become sufficiently entangled, are sufficiently at loggerheads with each other, have sufficiently weakened themselves in a struggle which is beyond their strength; (2) all the vacillating and unstable, intermediate elements- the petty bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeois democrats, as distinct from the bourgeoisie- have sufficiently exposed themselves in the eyes of the people, have sufficiently disgraced themselves through their practical bankruptcy, and (3) among the proletariat, a mass sentiment favouring the most determined, bold and dedicated revolutionary action against the bourgeoisie, has emerged and begun to grow vigourously. Then revolution is indeed ripe; then indeed, if we have correctly gauged all the conditions indicated and summarized above, and if we have chosen the right moment, our victory is assured.’’(italics by Lenin)

As countless workers are now focused on the Midterm Elections, as a result of the revolutionary motion currently sweeping the country, this provides us with an opportunity to raise their level of awareness. Yet this is clearly not happening, if only because we have as yet to create a true International Scientific Socialist Communist Party.

Numerous ‘’Leftist’’ journalists have ‘’taken to the airways’’, producing countless videos, in an attempt to explain that which is taking place. None of them make any mention of the existence of classes, or the conflict between them. Perhaps the finest of the sad lot, was created by the highly respected ‘’Independent Socialist Senator’’, from the state of Vermont. It is titled, ‘’PUT HEAVY TAXES ON MUSK, Bernie Sanders Demands Immediate Action On Billionaires’’, and runs for 15:59. I have chosen to transcribe the pertinent parts:

‘’Let me begin by thanking the millions of Americans who were actively involved in the election yesterday….for giving the Democrats a strong majority. Yesterday, Trump told us to vote as if he were on the ballot… and that is exactly what the American people did. Together, we stood up to authoritarianism, and a president who does not believe in the Constitution, or the rule of law. And we won. With Democratic control over the Senate and the House, we will now finally be able to hold Donald Trump accountable. That is a big deal. But as important as it is, it is not enough. ..We are living in an unprecedented moment in American history, where our country faces extraordinary crises. … It is no secret that in the United States, and all over the world, people are giving up on democracy. ..All over the world…working families are struggling to put food on the table, and pay for basic necessities, while the very richest people become much richer. ..an international issue… The American people have had enough…They are demanding real change…they want a government that stands for working families, not billionaire campaign contributors…the American people want change…income and wealth inequality has reached unprecedented levels….We must take on the greed of the very, very rich, and their incredible wealth. …a wealth tax on billionaires…(this is followed by a ‘’wish list’’ of reforms) …our health care system is broken….health care must be considered as a human right….(this was followed by a tirade against AI, Artificial Intelligence) …the minimum wage must increase dramatically… increase pensions for seniors…cut military spending…must end war in Iran….we are fighting to give hope to the American people to allow them to understand in fact that their government can work for them…’’

Allow me to stress the fact that Senator Sanders is a highly respected individual, a successful politician,  a self described ‘’Independent Socialist’’, and a member of the DSA, the Democratic Socialists of America. He is also widely regarded as the leader of the ‘’Leftist’’ faction in America. Without doubt, he is a fine example of the ‘’Utopian’’ socialism, which is currently being offered, as an ‘’alternative’’ to capitalism. Now to examine that which he is proposing.

On the one hand, Sanders documents the ‘’crises’’ currently facing the country, and the fact that working people are ‘’giving up on democracy’’. True! With good reason! The working class must be made aware of the fact that the existing state apparatus, in the form of the ‘’democratic republic’’, has been set up by the ruling class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, currently referred to as the ‘’Oligarchy’’, in order to crush and exploit the ‘’lower classes’’, the workers and farmers! Sanders merely glosses over the very existence of that class of people! He makes no mention of the continuous class struggle, soon to break out into open class warfare, between the two classes! He even goes so far as to ‘’give hope’’, to the ‘’American people’’, that the government, which has been set up to crush them, can somehow ‘’work for them!’’ Nonsense!

Those same working people are supremely well aware of the ‘’wealth inequality’’, which Sanders so delicately pointed out, in great detail. They are equally well aware that the gap is growing! As they are becoming ever more impoverished, the billionaires are becoming ever more wealthy! Not a coincidence! The wealth of the capitalists comes at the expense of the proletariat!

There is no need to tell the working class, the proletariat, that which they are already well aware! There is an urgent need to tell them that which they need to know! They need to become class conscious! Aware of themselves as a class, with interests which are diametrically opposed to the interests of the class of the monopoly capitalists! Aware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin! Aware that the bourgeoisie must be overthrown, the existing state apparatus must be smashed and replaced with a different state apparatus, in the form of Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

The interest aroused by the ‘’Midterm Elections’’, provides us with an opportunity to do just that. Yet that is not happening! Instead, workers are being bombarded with a barrage of proposed ‘’alternative reforms’’. As this is mainly coming from the DSA, it is not too surprising. The DSA is ‘’socialist in name only’’! Their ‘’mission statement’’ makes it clear that they are fighting merely for democracy and reforms! They make no mention of socialism! Hypocrites!

The best way to combat the confusion, created within the minds of the working people- if not the only way!- is through the creation of a true International Scientific Socialist Communist Party.

Perhaps the best way to finish this article, is by referring to an article written by Lenin, in 1918. It is titled The Proletarian Revolution, and the Renegade Kautsky. He concluded that article with a statement which has resounded through the years. It is just as relevant now, as when it was first written:

‘’Europe’s greatest misfortune and danger is that it has no revolutionary party. It has parties of traitors like the Scheidemanns, Renaudels, Hendersons, Webbs and Co., and of servile souls like Kautsky. But it has no revolutionary party.

‘’Of course, a mighty, popular revolutionary movement may rectify this deficiency, but it is nevertheless a serious misfortune and a grave danger.

‘’That is why we must do our utmost to expose renegades like Kautsky, thereby supporting the revolutionary groups of genuine internationalist workers, who are to be found in all countries. The proletariat will very soon turn away from the traitors and renegades, and follow these groups, drawing and training leaders from their midst. No wonder the bourgeoisie of all countries are howling about ‘world Bolshevism’.

‘’World Bolshevism will conquer world bourgeoisie.’’ (italics by Lenin, at that time Communism was referred to as Bolshevism)

Without doubt, we are now experiencing a ‘’mighty, popular revolutionary movement’’, and not just here in North America. We can only hope that this revolutionary movement will serve to ‘’rectify this deficiency’’. In the mean time, as I documented in a previous article, it is our duty to expose the renegades, and in this way support the ‘’revolutionary groups of genuine internationalist workers’’, the most advanced of the most advanced, those who are to be ‘’found in all countries’’. It is also our duty to identify those revolutionary groups of genuine international workers, in each and every country.

Without doubt, we have our work cut out for ourselves. Yet we can also expect the bourgeois to provide us with a little help. As Marx and Engels stated, 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 .’’

Without doubt, the class struggle is about to break out into open class warfare, the ‘’decisive hour’’. Now we can expect a few bourgeois intellectuals to ‘’cut themselves adrift’’, and ‘’join the revolutionary class’’, the proletariat, as that is the class which ‘’holds the future in its hands’’. We can also expect them to assist in the creation of an International Scientific Socialist Communist Party. Their anticipated participation will be most welcome.

With Most Sincere Communist Greetings,

Gerald McIsaac

In 1847, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels got together and wrote a brief manuscript. It has since gone down in history as one of the most famous manuscripts, ever published. That famous manuscript is of course the Communist Manifesto. In their introduction to the Manifesto, they managed to ‘’get right to the heart of the matter’’:

‘’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: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French radicals and German police spies.

‘’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?

‘’Two things result from this fact:

1. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.
2. 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.

‘’To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London, and sketched the following Manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.’’

Recent developments have made it abundantly clear that the ‘’Spectre of Communism’’ is still ‘’haunting Europe’’! A great many countries of Europe are now experiencing ‘’turmoil’’ and ‘’unrest’’, amid ‘’mounting protests’’, as the bourgeois journalists phrase it. Nonsense! It is nothing other than a revolutionary uprising, which has already spread across Europe, and beyond. Further, those same bourgeois journalists are accusing the leaders of the organizations which are coordinating those protests, of being ‘’Communists’’. This despite the fact that the protests are largely spontaneous! Leaderless!

A very clear cut example of this, is illustrated in a video by Elizabeth Pipko, titled:

Extremists demand COMMUNIST REVOLUTION and won’t stop until EVERYTHING IS DESTROYED

EUROPE IN CRISIS: FRESH PROTEST CHAOS

RADICAL LEFT GROUPS FUEL PROTEST CRISIS IN FRANCE, SPAIN & ITALY

I have copied the title of the video, precisely as it is being presented on the internet, complete with the capitalization. The title alone leaves no room for any misunderstandings! Communists are ‘’extremists’’, determined to ‘’destroy everything’’! Then for the next twenty two minutes, she preaches that ‘’gospel’’!

Pipko bewails the fact that the ‘’beautiful country’’ of France, is ‘’almost unrecognizable’’, due to the ‘’explosion of violence’’, which has ‘’spread to Spain and Italy’’. This is all the fault of ‘’Communist Revolutionaries’’, who want to ‘’burn everything down’’.

She further expressed the concern that this ‘’could happen to America’’. Her ‘’solution’’ to this ‘’nightmare scenario’’, that of ‘’protests’’ spreading to ‘’America’’, is to vote in the midterm elections! As if the people of France do not vote in elections! They most certainly do, and that changes nothing! Yet her advice is excellent! Not that it is going to forestall the approaching revolution. On the contrary, it is bound to further the revolution, as working people become more politically active. And voting is a form of political activity.

Clearly, the multi billionaires of Europe, otherwise known as monopoly capitalists or imperialists, are typical members of a certain class of people, commonly called the Oligarchy, technically referred to as the bourgeoisie. They are completely reactionary, and as such, have to be overthrown. This can be accomplished only through revolution. At the same time, the existing state apparatus has to be smashed, and replaced with a new state apparatus, in the form of Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. This is referred to as Scientific Socialism, and is necessary, as it is the only way to crush the desperate and determined resistance of the bourgeoisie, as they make every effort to ‘’restore their paradise lost’’.

In much the same manner, a similar revolutionary motion is taking place in America. Yet the bourgeois journalists of America are every bit as incapable of grasping the reality of class struggle, as their European counterparts. But then, as Lenin stated, ‘’muddled thinking’’ is characteristic of even the finest of them.

It is also significant that these ‘’European protests’’, began in the country of France. As Engels stated, in his introduction to Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire, that is the country in which, ’’more than anywhere else, the historical class struggles were each time fought out to a decision.’’ It is very likely that France will once again, ‘’fight the class struggle out to a decision.’’ As the revolution has already spread to various neighbouring countries, there can be little doubt that the current French revolution will result in a successful conclusion, that of a state of Scientific Socialism, and not just in France, but in all of Europe.

The bourgeois journalists must be given credit for conducting interviews with certain protesters. From the response these protesters have given, it is clear that they are ‘’anti capitalist’’, and some of them consider themselves to be ‘’Socialists’’ and even ‘’Communists’’. This indicates a certain level of awareness, on the part of these protesters, but also a certain amount of confusion. As the revolutionary motion is largely leaderless, this is completely understandable. It is also completely unacceptable.

It is the duty of Scientific Socialists, true Communists, to raise the level of awareness of those protesters. It is not reasonable to expect those people to be aware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin, as those theories are taught only in University, and then only with a view to distorting those same theories. Most of the people taking part in those protests are working class, and it is doubtful that many of them have ever attended University. The fact that they appear to be instinctively aware that capitalism is the problem, and must be replaced with a state of socialism, is a step in the right direction, but only a step.

A clear distinction must be drawn, between the socialism of the utopians,  which has proven to be impossible, and Scientific Socialism, which calls for the overthrow of the ruling class of multi billionaires, the smashing of the existing state apparatus, and the establishment of a new state apparatus, in the form of Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

As the bourgeois journalists have yet to report of any protester calling for either Soviet Power or the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, it is reasonable to assume that there are no true Communists, involved in the protests. Yet it is also reasonable to assume that the European proletariat is well cultured. As that is the case, may I suggest that they ‘’self educate’’, that they raise themselves to the level of Scientific Socialists, true Communists, by reading the most important works of Marx and Lenin. These include the Communist Manifesto, by Marx and Engels. The ‘’Essential Works of Lenin’’ include State and Revolution, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, and What Is To Be Done? As well, I consider Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder, to be required reading. A proper understanding of those works, should give workers a fine grounding in Scientific Socialism.

It is also a fact that we can expect a few middle class intellectuals, to join in the struggle for Scientific Socialism. The reason I say this, is because the Communist Manifesto predicts this:

‘’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 .’’

The current revolutionary motion, which is sweeping across Europe ‘’like wildfire through dry grass’’, makes it abundantly clear, even to those who are not overly bright, that the ‘’class struggle’’ is indeed near the ‘’decisive hour’’. Now we can expect a ‘’small section of the ruling class’’, of multi billionaires, to ‘’cut themselves adrift’’, and ‘’join the revolutionary class’’ of proletarians, the ‘’class that holds the future in its hands’’. This ‘’small section’’ will be composed of a few of the ‘’bourgeois ideologists’’, the middle class intellectuals, those who are capable of honesty, of raising themselves to the level of ‘’comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole’’.

Without doubt, these ‘’recently converted’’ middle class intellectuals will assist in raising the level of awareness of the working class, those taking part in the revolution. Their input is most welcome. As well, they will almost certainly take part in the creation of a true Communist Party, one which calls for Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

As these ‘’bourgeois ideologists’’ join the revolutionary forces, it is reasonable to expect them to play a leading role. In addition to raising the level of awareness of the working class, we can expect them to better organize the protests. All of the videos, from the protests in various countries of Europe, show the police, dressed in ‘’riot gear’’, including helmets with face shields, carrying shields and clubs, using ‘’water cannons’’ and tear gas, against the workers. Yet previous revolutionary experience has proven that there are effective defences against these weapons. I have gone into this in detail, in previous articles, but perhaps a brief summary is in order.

The water cannons are fired from water trucks, and those water trucks get their water from the fire hydrants. The fire hydrants rely upon a great deal of pressure to pump out that water. The way to reduce that pressure is by opening up all the fire hydrants, within the city. This is easily managed with pipe wrenches. No pressure for the hydrants, no water for the water trucks.

The riot police also fire tear gas canisters, generally from hand held launchers. For that reason, the range is limited, so that they are required to get quite close to the protesters. That close range makes it possible for protesters to return fire, not with tear gas, but from paint ball guns. Upon impact, the riot police will be required to lift their face shields. At that point, the protesters can also fire off marbles, from sling shots. This will serve to reduce the advantage, the police have, of close quarters combat.

Incidentally, it is surprising how accurate people can become, with a little practice, at firing sling shots. Marbles are recommended, as all have a uniform weight. They have also been proven to be effective against mounted police. Horses which are pelted with marbles, generally give their riders ‘’flying lessons’’.

Revolutionaries have also found spears to be quite effective. A simple three meter, ten foot long wooden shaft, complete with a metal tip, has been proven to dampen the enthusiasm of even the most enthusiastic members of the riot squad.

As the bourgeois ideologists become involved, we can expect them to organize the protesters, in squads of paint ball shooters, slingers and spear people. We can also expect the protesters to be equipped with gas masks, bullet proof vests, helmets and possibly clubs.

We are now at the point where ‘’class struggle’’ is breaking out into open ‘’class warfare’’. Monopoly capitalists against workers, bourgeoisie against proletarians. The riot police are merely the hired agents of the billionaires. At some point, they will remove their helmets and join the revolution. We in turn, must be prepared to welcome them, as our Brothers and Sisters, our Comrade In Arms.

The more rational of the bourgeois journalists, and such are few and far between, may object that Communism does not work. As ‘’proof’’, they may point to the fact that the Soviet Union ‘’collapsed’’, breaking up into a number of separate republics. As well, the Chinese Communists are acting like a bunch of rabid imperialists.

In response to this rational argument, we can point out that the Russian capitalists were able to return to power, immediately after the death of Stalin, in 1953. This was due to the fact that Stalin, although a fine Communist, made a number of rather serious mistakes.

Then in 1949, the Chinese Revolution gave birth to another Scientific Socialist Republic, the Peoples Republic of China, with Chairman Mao Tse Tung at the helm. Yet Mao too, another fine Communist, made a number of serious mistakes. After his death, in 1976, the Chinese capitalists were able to take advantage of those mistakes, and also return to power.

This is no cause for despair, on our part. After all, even though Stalin and Moa were fine revolutionaries, they were still human, and as such, they made mistakes. I have documented those mistakes in previous articles, so there is no need to repeat it here. Allow me to stress the fact that it is our duty to learn from the successes, as well as the failures- especially the failures!- of previous revolutionary experience.

I maintain that, in each case, the members of the Communist Party, and in particular the members of the Central Committee, failed in their duty to intervene, to point out these mistakes, to demand that they be corrected, and if necessary, to remove those individuals from office, possibly from the Party. This is referred to as ‘’purging the Party’’. Allow me to stress the fact that Party purges are not limited to low ranking members of the Party. It also applies to the members of the Central Committee, and even the Chairman.

The class struggle does not end with the overthrow of the monopoly capitalists! On the contrary, it merely raises that struggle to a higher level, that of Scientific Socialism, under Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. As Lenin points out, in Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder:

‘’The Dictatorship of the Proletariat means a most determined and most ruthless war waged by the new class against a more powerful enemy, the bourgeoisie, whose resistance is increased tenfold by their overthrow (even if only in a single country), and whose power lies, not only in the strength of international capital, the strength and durability of their international connections, but also in the force of habit, in the strength of small scale production. Unfortunately, small scale production is still widespread in the world, and small scale production engenders capitalism and the bourgeoisie continuously, daily, hourly, spontaneously, and on a mass scale. All these reasons make the Dictatorship of the Proletariat necessary, and victory over the bourgeoisie is impossible without a long, stubborn and desperate life and death struggle which calls for tenacity, disciple and a single and inflexible will.’’ (italics by Lenin)

The experience of previous revolutions has proven the correctness of that statement! After the successful revolution, the former ruling class of multi billionaires are not about to ‘’resign themselves to their fate’’. On the contrary, their resistance will ‘’increase ten fold’’, as they make every effort to ‘’restore their paradise lost’’.

That is the reason it is necessary to crush the former multi billionaire rulers, under a new state apparatus, in the form of Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Lenin established just such an apparatus in Soviet Russia, immediately after the October Revolution, and was in the process of perfecting it, when he was murdered. His successor, Josef Stalin, was a fine Communist, but made some rather serious mistakes. As previously mentioned, this enabled the capitalists to return to power, after his death, in 1953.

Now the revolutionary motion has once again flared up, and not just in Europe, but in various countries of the world. For that reason, it is the duty of Scientific Socialists, true Communists, to raise the level of awareness of the working class, in order to prepare them for the approaching revolution. They must be made aware that they are destined to overthrow the ruling class of imperialists, the bourgeoisie, and crush them, under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

The best way to do that, if not the only way, is through the creation of a true Communist Party, one which calls for Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Further, as Lenin made numerous references in his writings, to a ‘’World Socialist Republic’’, I can only suggest an International Scientific Socialist Communist Party.

Now we should turn our attention to a different part of the world, that of America. Here too, the revolutionary motion is also very powerful. Recent No Kings Protests, mainly against Donald Trump, have attracted millions of protesters, all across the country. The fact that the local police have refrained from arresting any protesters, is an indication of the strength of that movement. It is only the federal police, those who are more reactionary, who are arresting people, frequently with considerable brutality. Given time, as the revolution becomes ever stronger, we can expect the majority of rank and file members, of the federal police agencies, to join the revolution. It is the officers who will have to answer for their crimes.

As I write this, it is clear that the truckers are joining the revolution, as the high price of diesel is driving them into bankruptcy. The family farmers are experiencing the same difficulty, and are joining in with their tractors. The trade unions are also considering a political strike, an exclusively proletariat weapon. Experience has shown that a successful revolution generally starts with a shutdown in the transportation industry. From there, it tends to spread to other parts of the country.

We will know that the revolution is succeeding, when the protesters become better organized and equipped, the truckers quit trucking, the transportation unions go on strike, and the posters read:

Workers of the World, Unite!

Soviet Power!

Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

Scientific Socialism!

On this day, millions of Americans, from ‘’coast to coast’’, took to the streets, to protest the efforts of President Donald Trump, to ‘’set himself up as king’’. Yet this protest was different from the three previous protests, as those same people were also encouraging all Americans to vote, in the forth coming ‘’midterm elections’’, of November 3.

This is significant, as Lenin made reference to the importance of voting, in his article, State and Revolution:

‘’We must also note that Engels very definitely calls universal suffrage an instrument of bourgeois rule. Universal suffrage, he says, obviously summing up the long experience of German Social Democracy, is ‘ ….an index of the maturity of the working class. It cannot and never will be anything more in the modern state’.

‘’The petty bourgeois democrats….all expect ‘more’ from universal suffrage. They themselves share and instill into the minds of the people the wrong idea that universal suffrage ‘in the modern state’, is really capable of expressing the will of the majority of the toilers and of ensuring its realization.’’ (italics by Lenin)

That is true to this day. Our modern day ‘’petty bourgeois democrats’’, those who refer to themselves as ‘’Democratic Socialists’’, would have us believe that the government will respond to the will of the majority of voters. They actually believe, and expect us to believe, that the government will enact significant reforms, if enough pressure is applied, through universal suffrage.

They refuse to face the fact – or are not capable of facing the fact? – that classes exist! Further, the current ‘’government’’ is merely a ‘’state apparatus’’, which has been set up, by the ruling class of multi billionaires, with the express purpose of crushing and exploiting the ‘’lower classes’’, and in particular the working class and family farmers. The fable of ‘’majority rule’’, through ‘’universal suffrage’’, is a mere fairy tale! It is merely, as Engels stated, ‘’an index of the maturity of the working class’’.

As that is the case, let us examine the current ‘’maturity of the working class’’.

The fact that the American working class is now not merely protesting, as in previous ‘’No Kings Days’’ events, but also encouraging all eligible citizens to vote, is a step forward in the revolutionary motion of the working class. This is technically referred to as a ‘’pro active’’ approach. As well, a great many people have already cast their ballots by mail, while others are taking advantage of voting before election day, in the states which allow such a procedure.

This can be considered to be a significant step towards ‘’class consciousness’’, in which the working class, the proletariat, becomes aware of itself as a class, complete with its own class interests. Bear in mind that those interests are diametrically opposed to the interests of the ruling class of monopoly capitalists, the bourgeoisie. At the point where the workers become aware of themselves, as a class, they are certain to embrace the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin, including the fact that the ruling class of monopoly capitalists must be overthrown, the existing state apparatus must be smashed, at the time of the revolution, and replaced with a new state apparatus, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

At that point, we can expect a successful Scientific Socialist Revolution. Lenin covered this supremely well in his article, Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder:

‘’The fundamental law of revolution, which has been confirmed by all revolutions, and especially by all three Russian revolutions in the twentieth century, is as follows: for a revolution to take place, it is not enough for the exploited and oppressed masses to realize the impossibility of living in the old way, and demand changes; for a revolution to take place, it is essential that the exploiters should not be able to live and rule in the old way. It is only when the ‘lower classes’ do not want to live in the old way, and the ‘upper classes’ cannot carry on in the old way, that the revolution can triumph. This truth can be expressed in other words: revolution is impossible without a nation wide crisis (affecting both the exploiters and the exploited). It follows that, for a revolution to take place, it is essential first, that a majority of the workers (or at least a majority of the class conscious, thinking, and politically active workers), should fully realize that revolution is necessary, and that they should be prepared to die for it; second, that the ruling classes should be going through a governmental crisis, which draws even the most backward masses into politics (symptomatic of any genuine revolution is a rapid, tenfold and even hundredfold increase in the size of the working and oppressed masses- hitherto apathetic- who are capable of waging the political struggle), weakens the government, and makes it possible for the revolutionaries to rapidly overthrow it.’’ (italics by Lenin)

Without doubt, the ‘’majority of class conscious, thinking, and politically active workers’’, are as yet unaware that revolution is necessary, and for that reason, are certainly not ‘’prepared to die for it’’. On the other hand, inflation, especially in the form of the high cost of fuel, is driving the cost of almost everything, to ever greater heights. After all, the truck drivers have an expression: ‘’If you bought it, we brought it’’. There is a great deal of truth to this. All ‘’consumer goods’’, which is to say the items we buy in grocery stores, as well as hardware stores and drug stores, were shipped there by truck. It stands to reason that the cost of transporting those goods depends, at least in part, on the price of diesel. The higher the price of diesel, the higher the price of goods.

According to Donald Trump, the best way to lower the price of fuel, is to drill for more oil. ‘’Drill, baby, drill!’’, is the slogan. He would have us believe that more oil will bring down the price of diesel, as well as other fuels, such as gasoline. Much as that is a ‘’happy thought’’, it is simply not true!

Allow me to do that which I do best- point out the obvious. Vehicles do not run on oil. Cars run on gasoline. Trucks and tractors run on diesel. Aircraft run on aviation fuel. Homes are heated by heating oil. All of these fuels are derived from oil. It is not enough to extract the oil from the ground. It must also be refined. And that is where refineries ‘’come into the picture’’. In fact, refineries have created that which is referred to as a ‘’bottle neck’’. This calls for a little explanation.

Refineries process crude oil into a mixture of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and heating oil for home heating. As per the internet, the United States has 130 currently operating petroleum refineries, with a total capacity of approximately 18.4 million barrels per day.

Incidentally, a barrel of oil has a volume of 42 US gallons, or about 159 litres.

The vast majority of these refineries are over forty years old, and most have ‘’seen better days’’, to put it in popular terms. Those which are not profitable, and are not worth repairing, are being ‘’phased out’’. There are no plans to replace them with new refineries, as it takes an estimated five years to build a new refinery, and costs many billions of dollars. It stands to reason that the current capacity is not about to increase, regardless of the amount of oil being made available. On the contrary, as old refineries are shut down, that capacity is bound to decrease.

There is a reason that there are no plans to build new, more efficient, modern oil refineries. That ‘’reason’’ has a name, and that is ‘’imperialism’’, monopoly capitalism. The imperialists have no competition! Why invest capital in oil refineries, when you can merely sit back, raise the price of fuel, as it becomes ever more scarce, and ‘’count your blessings’’? Or at least, ‘’count your profits’’! That profit, which the capitalists refer to as their ‘’bottom line’’, is their sole purpose of existence!

The working class, the proletariat, has got to be made aware of the fact that the high price of fuel, which leads to higher prices of everything else, is characteristic of monopoly capitalism, otherwise known as imperialism. There is absolutely nothing progressive about imperialism. As Lenin stated, ‘’it is reaction, right down the line’’. For that reason, the monopoly capitalists must be overthrown, the existing state apparatus must be smashed, and replaced with a new state apparatus, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Lenin covers this supremely well, in his excellent article, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. All workers are encouraged to read that article.

Now to return to the subject of the midterm elections.

Just when we started to think that Donald Trump could not possibly surprise us with his idiocy, as well as his complete disregard for human life, he has managed to do just that. On October 5 of this year, in a rally in Nebraska, he managed to stoop to new and greater depths of depravity, with his disjointed speech concerning the war with Iran, and the high cost of fuel:

“Remember, with the war, it’s just artificial. It’s a little bit high. It’s a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe. They could take out a city. Let them take — let it — let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That’s — this is a very small price to pay, and it’s going to be over with very soon. It’s essentially almost over with.’’

The President of the United States just said that it is okay for Iran to ‘take out’’ the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego! The lives of millions of Americans means so little to him! Spoken like the true psychopath that he is!

The speech quickly drew outraged responses from Democrats and self described ‘’Independents’’, in California and nationally.

As the Democratic governor of California, Gavin Newsom stated: “After sending the National Guard and Marines to occupy California, Donald Trump is now saying our foreign enemies should ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego. He is deranged and dangerous.”

Democratic Senator Adam Schiff of California echoed those sentiments:

“The President says the Iran war will end ‘very soon,’ How many times have we heard that promise? And if it means attacks on two major American cities in the process, he is not troubled by the cost.”

The ‘’Independent’’ Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who consistently votes with the Democrats, had this to say: “I can’t believe we have to say this, but the annihilation of two major American cities – more than 5 million people – is not a ‘small price to pay’ for Trump’s illegal war.’’

From this, it is clear that opposition to the completely reactionary, absolutely insane policies of Donald Trump, is wide spread. This includes opposition to the war with Iran. Properly so, I might add. Yet the mainstream press is portraying the members of the Democratic Party, as well as the few ‘’Independents’’, as the ‘’Good Guys’’, those who ‘’wear the white hats’’, as opposed to the ‘’Bad Guys’’, those who ‘’wear the black hats’’, as is portrayed in the early Hollywood western movies. Nonsense!

The two mainstream political parties, both Democrats and Republics, as well as the self styled ‘’Independents’’, serve the same class of monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, currently referred to as the ‘’Oligarchy class’’. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum! Two sides of the same coin!

This is the fact that the ‘’Leftist’’ press, including those who claim to be Socialist or even Communist, completely overlook. They either will not, or cannot, face the fact that we live in a class society. The two main classes, the monopoly capitalist class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, and the working class of proletarians, are in a constant state of conflict. This ‘’class conflict’’ is about to erupt into a state of open class warfare. As these journalists are members of a country which was created through revolution, the fact that they cannot imagine a second revolution, is beyond strange.

The revolutionary uprising of the working class, is reflected in the upcoming midterm elections. The mainstream press is predicting a ‘’blue wave’’, at the time of the election. By that, they are referring to the expectation of an overwhelming number of Democrats and Independents, elected to both the House of Representatives, and the Senate. That remains to be seen.

In response to this, Trump is busy campaigning in various states, in an attempt at ‘’damage control’’. He is telling his supporters, referred to as the ‘’MAGA’’, Make America Great Again, to ‘’just pretend that I am running, when you cast your ballot’’. There are a great many Republican candidates for office, who are afraid that voters will do just that!

Even though the popularity of Trump is clearly in decline, he still has the support of a considerable number of people. He has been compared to the leader of a ‘’cult’’, in that his ‘’hold’’ over these followers is remarkable. This became clear in the state of Tennessee, when he said: ‘’I can say the stupidest things and you’d clap’’. His audience responded to this remark by clapping!

This is not to say that his most devoted followers are the enemy. They most certainly are not! Almost all of them are working people, and have been misled. Perhaps a little patience, and more popular literature, is required. In due time, as reality sinks in, they will no doubt ‘’come to their senses’’.

The fact of the matter is that the working people who live in cities, referred to as ‘’urban areas’’, tend to be more advanced than those who live in the countryside, referred to as ‘’rural areas’’.

This was brought out quite clearly in the article by Lenin, titled Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder. In that article, written in 1920, Lenin gave the example of a speech by British Prime Minister Lloyd George. He, the Prime Minister, was concerned because, in his opinion, ‘’Civilization is in jeopardy’’, due to ‘’Communism’’, which he thought was being ‘’practiced in France’’. He was concerned that it might spread to Britain, so it was necessary for Liberals and Conservatives to unite. The Prime Minister went on to state: ‘’…If you go to the agricultural areas, I agree you have the old party divisions as strong as ever. They are removed from the danger. It does not walk their lanes. But when they see it, they will be as strong as some of these industrial constituencies are now. Four fifths of this country is industrial and commercial; hardly one fifth is agricultural. It is one of the things I have constantly in my mind when I think of the dangers of the future here. In France the population is agricultural, and you have a solid body of opinion which does not move very rapidly, and which is not very easily excited by revolutionary movements. This is not the case here. This country is more top heavy than any country in the world, and if it begins to rock, the crash here, for that reason, will be greater than in any land.’’

In response to this statement, Lenin expressed his opinion of the British Prime Minister: ‘’From this the reader will see that Mr. Lloyd George is not only a very intelligent man, but one who has also learned a great deal from the Marxists. We too have something to learn from Lloyd George’’.

The Prime Minister was correct, when he stated that the ‘’party divisions’’, in the ‘’agricultural areas’’, were as ‘’strong as ever’’, as they are ‘’removed from the danger’’. The ‘’danger’’ to which Lloyd George was referring, was that of ‘’Communism’’, which he thought was then being practiced in France. By implication, those who live and work in ‘’industrial areas’’, are less likely to be restricted by ‘’party divisions’’, much more likely to be attracted to the revolutionary theories of Communism. This is true! The conditions of life, of those who live and work in cities, tend to ‘’broaden the horizons’’ of workers, making them more open to the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin.

In reference to the people who lived and worked in the countryside, Lloyd George was also correct, when he stated that, ‘’when they see it, they will be as strong as some of these industrial constituencies are now’’. Truly, ‘’seeing is believing’’! Both the family farmers and workers, those who work for wages on the farms, referred to as the ‘’rural proletariat’’, are bound to ‘’come around’’ to our way of thinking, to join the workers in the cities, in embracing the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin.

As regards our current situation, the midterm elections make clear that the working people in urban areas, the cities, are far more open to change, than those in the rural areas, the countryside. It is also clear that the rural workers will follow the urban workers.

Allow me to stress the fact that the rural workers, referred to as ‘’MAGA’’, those who are still devoted to Trump, are not the enemy! They have merely been misled. In due time, they will join us, as our Comrades In Arms, in our war with the multi billionaires.

Lloyd George was also correct when he stated that Britain ‘’was more top heavy than any country in the world, and if it begins to rock, the crash here, for that reason, will be greater than in any land.’’

Once again, Lloyd George’’ hit the nail squarely on the head’’! By ‘’top heavy’’, he meant that, at that time, Britain was more heavily industrialized than ‘’any country in the world.’’ He was also afraid that it might ‘’ begin to rock’’, by which he meant that the working class might -perish forbid!- begin to be influenced by the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin, to become conscious of themselves as a class, and of the necessity of overthrowing the ruling class of monopoly capitalists. 

The subsequent revolution, or the ‘’crash’’, as he phrased it, would be ‘’greater than in any land’’, due to the fact that the country was so highly industrialized, with a far greater population of working class people. By implication, the approaching ‘’crash’’, the Scientific Socialist Revolution in America, is bound to be severe!

No wonder Lenin considered Lloyd George to be a very intelligent man! He certainly learned a great deal from the Marxists! Yet Lenin also stated that ‘’we have something to learn from Lloyd George’’. And just what is that?

Lenin documents the fact that Lloyd George was then asked a simple question, concerning the ‘’effect upon the industrial workers’’, as a result of this revolutionary movement. His answer made no sense whatsoever! From this, Lenin came to the following conclusion:

‘’It may be said, in passing, that this argument shows in particular, how muddled even the most intelligent members of the bourgeoisie have become, and how they cannot help committing irreparable blunders. That, in fact, is what will bring about the downfall of the bourgeoisie. Our people, however, may commit blunders (provided, of course, that they are not too serious and are rectified in time) and yet, in the long run, will prove the victors.’’

This helps to explain the fact that even the finest of the bourgeois journalists, as well as a great many self proclaimed ‘’Leftist’’ journalists, are unable to think in class terms. Almost all are completely ‘’muddled’’. In response to the insane actions of Donald Trump -or perhaps more accurately the criminal actions– the best they can recommend is that the Vice President and members of the presidential cabinet invoke the Twenty Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, in order to remove him from office. Or possibly to impeach Trump, yet again. It has not worked twice before, so why not try it again? They have raised ‘’muddled thinking’’ to a whole new level!

As I have pointed out in previous articles, the simplest, easiest way to remove both Trump and Vice President Vance from office, is to challenge the 2024 presidential election, on the grounds that it was unconstitutional. It did not follow the procedure laid out in the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution, as is required for all federal elections. To briefly summarize, there is no presidential election; there is no popular vote; there is no ‘’running mate’’; there is no ‘’president elect’’; there is no mention of any political party; it is up to the Electors, and only the Electors, to vote for the individuals of their choice, for the offices of President and Vice President; the states have no right to meddle in any such election; all states and the District of Columbia have laws which force Electors to vote for certain individuals; for that reason, the 2024 ‘’presidential election’’ was fraudulent.

It is simply a matter of hiring or persuading an attorney, an expert on Constitutional law, to challenge this, in a federal court. No doubt, the Trump administration would fight this, all the way to the Supreme Court. Equally without doubt, it would attract the attention of the working people. The Supreme Court could refuse to consider the matter, in which case the working people would learn that the courts are by no means impartial, merely in the service of the monopoly capitalists. Or the Supreme Court could rule that the Twelfth Amendment does not apply. This too, is in the service of the multi billionaires. Then again, they could surprise everyone by ‘’growing a backbone’’, by declaring the 2024 presidential election to be fraudulent, and removing both Trump and Vance from office. Not likely, but if the revolutionary motion of the working class is strong enough, this could well take place.

Regardless of the outcome, the level of awareness of the working class is certain to be elevated. As the capitalists are supremely well aware, and for that reason, are determined to avoid it. God forbid that the working class should become aware of themselves, as a class! That is very likely the reason they avoid any mention of the Twelfth Amendment.

In conclusion, we can say that the No Kings Day protests, which call for all Americans to not only protest, but also to ‘’get out and vote’’, in the midterm elections, proves that the revolutionary motion of the working class, is becoming ever stronger. The movement is clearly broad and deep, with a great many progressive organizations taking part. This is most encouraging, and fine, as far as it goes. It does not go far enough.

As previously mentioned, the conditions of life, of the working class, do not lead to the awareness of itself, as a class. Nor is the working class aware of the existence of the class of monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, currently being referred to as the ‘’Oligarchy’’. For that reason, it is simply not reasonable to expect workers to call for the overthrow of the ruling class of multi billionaires. Workers are not even aware of their existence!

The working class is now functioning near the limit of its ability. It is demanding full and complete democracy, properly so. As for the overthrow of the ruling class of bourgeoisie, to be replaced with a state of Scientific Socialism, in the form of Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, there is not a word. Even though the proletariat is destined to take this course of action, it is not aware of this!

The Scientific Socialist revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin are taught only in University, and then only with a view to distorting them. As very few working class people are able to attend University, it is mainly the children of the ‘’propertied classes’’, who are exposed to these theories.

This awareness must be brought to the working class, from an outside source. That outside source is middle class intellectuals. Lenin goes into this, in considerable detail, in his excellent work, What Is To Be Done? As I have gone into this, in great detail, in previous articles, there is no need to repeat it here. Suffice it to say that it is in the best interest of middle class intellectuals, to raise the level of awareness of the working class, the proletariat, to make them aware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin.

Allow me to stress the fact that such people have no future under monopoly capitalism. On the other hand, they have a bright future under Scientific Socialism, in the form of Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Their education and training, especially in the fields of organization and management, will be in great demand. They will be paid accordingly.

The strength of the revolutionary movement has convinced me that a full scale revolution, is ‘’on the horizon’’. Bear in mind that a revolution is similar to a force of nature, such as a volcano. We never know the precise date of the eruption. We just know that it is bound to happen, and prepare for the inevitable.

I most sincerely hope that no middle class intellectual takes offence to that which I am saying. That is certainly not my intention. Bear in mind that at the time the Oligarchy declared that five businesses were Too Big To Fail, they also implied that all other businesses were Too Small To Succeed! They plan to drive your business into bankruptcy! They were not joking! Rest assured, they do not have a sense of humour!

Marx has a few words to say concerning this time of preparation for a revolution, 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 .’’

Now we can expect a ‘’portion’’ of the bourgeois intellectuals, those who are capable of honesty, to raise themselves to the level of ‘’comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole’’. We can further expect their numbers to be small, as most bourgeois cannot bring themselves to face the ‘’horrors’’ of Scientific Socialism.

The revolution could break out at any day. For that reason, there is no time to waste. Now is the time to make a decision. Either become active, in the revolutionary motion, raising the level of awareness of the working class, taking part in Councils, fighting for Scientific Socialism, or not. Bear in mind that, at the time of revolution, the polite norms of civilized society tend to ‘’fall by the wayside’’. Consider the fact that Americans have a revolutionary tradition of ‘’tar and feathers’’! You do not want to be on the receiving end of that ‘’protest’’!

As for those who choose to work in the service of the working class, may I suggest that you take part in the creation of a true Communist Party, one which calls for Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Bear in mind that the word Soviet means Council. Such a Party is necessary to provide the working class, with the proper leadership.

We will know that we are successful in raising the level of awareness of the working class, to that of Scientific Socialists, when the posters and signs proclaim:

Workers of the World, Unite!

Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

Scientific Socialism!

Soviet Power!

On January 30, 1939, the Chancellor of Germany made a speech to the German Reichstag. The name of that Chancellor was Adolf Hitler. The speech he gave was historic. I have chosen to copy the key part here:

‘’If international financial Jewry in and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the peoples once again into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth and thus victory of Judaism, but annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe.’’

Allow me to stress the fact that Hitler first announced, to the Reichstag and the world, that he planned to commit an act of genocide! Then he did precisely that. Six years later, the whole world was shocked to find out that Hitler meant what he said!

Now, on September 22, 2026, President Donald Trump appeared at the United Nations, and made a speech, to the General Assembly. It is reminiscent of the speech given by Adolf Hitler, in which he threatened to commit an act of genocide. I have chosen to copy the pertinent parts here:

Trump: ‘’I have a big decision to make. Will a deal be made with Iran, that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever was before, maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or even the world. Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic, and do it quickly, never giving them the chance to kill and destroy people and countries again. Do I drive them into hell with no chance of survival and no hope?’’

Donald Trump has just threatened the Islamic Republic of Iran, with ‘’annihilation’’! An act of genocide! Trump is not joking! Trump is every bit the psychopath, as was Adolf Hitler! He also plans to ‘’do it quickly’’, which means that he plans to use nuclear weapons! This will almost certainly result in a Third World War!

In the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, it should be mentioned that some of the most highly respected, of the bourgeois journalists, recognize the danger presented by Trump and his class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, commonly referred to as the Oligarchy. Yet their concern is not that Trump may commit an act of genocide, as the head of the United States, or even that he may provoke a Third World War! On the contrary, they are worried that the working people may rise up in revolution!

In fact, Colonel MacGregor pointed out this danger. In his video, titled ‘’Is Trump Facing a New 1848 in America’’, I have chosen to transcribe the key parts here.

‘’We are on the verge of unrest on the scale of the 1848 revolutions. The difference is that the regimes that were challenged in 1848, were still strong, and they were still viewed as legitimate. Increasingly, people in Europe and here in the United States, no longer view the institutions of national governance, as legitimate. How many times do you hear an American say, ‘It doesn’t matter who you vote for, you get the same outcome.’ Over and over. That is a very dangerous observation. Now, take away food, take away fuel, take away jobs, and what do you get?….That is what you call a recipe for revolution. The potential here for unrest, given the things I sited to you in the economy, where things are headed, is very serious….. We have not yet felt the effects on what’s been happening in the Persian Gulf, on the scale that we will. In other words, there is a lag time between what happens now, and the real effects in several months….’’

It is clear that MacGregor is one of the more intelligent of the bourgeois scholars, as he recognizes a revolutionary situation, when he sees one. And the current situation in America is absolutely revolutionary. Yet he makes no comparison to the American Revolutionary War of 1776, or of the Civil War of 1861. In the Revolutionary War, the ruling class of British nobility was thrown out, and in the Civil War, the completely reactionary class of slave owners was crushed.

Instead, MacGregor delved into the European Revolution of 1848, as well as the fact that, at the end of the First World War, a number of European families of the nobility, were ruined. Apparently, he is ‘’pining’’ for the ‘’good old days’’, when the power of the nobility was almost absolute. As the American bourgeoisie, the Oligarchy, has been referred to as the ‘’new nobility’’, and as they are determined to set themselves up as such, this does make sense.

I mention this as merely one example of the ‘’muddled thinking’’, of one of the more intelligent members of the bourgeois intellectuals. As Lenin stated, in Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder, this is an indication that they ‘’cannot help committing irreparable blunders. That, in fact, is what will bring about the downfall of the bourgeoisie. Our people, however, may commit blunders (provided, of course, that they are not too serious and are rectified in time) and yet, in the long run, will be the victors.’’ 

It may be argued that Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California, and a potential candidate of the Democrats, for the office of president, is far more intelligent. That could well be. Yet he appeared at the World Economic Forum, of the United Nations, during a ‘’special climate session’’. By chance, he appeared the day after Trump threatened genocide. The speech Newsom gave is quite revealing:

‘’You heard that speech from my president yesterday. He all but called for genocide of 93 million people. Nothing normal about that. Nothing normal about this moment.’’

To say that ‘’calling for genocide’’ is ‘’not normal’’, is an understatement. Especially as Trump is speaking as the President of the United States! It stands to reason that genocide is now the official policy of America! As Gavin Newsom is an American citizen, as well as the Governor of California, he was absolutely correct in departing from his prepared remarks, concerning climate change, and instead, addressing the far more important topic of American sponsored genocide! Yet to refer to this as ‘’not normal’’, is to gloss over the fact that genocide is nothing less than a crime against humanity, possibly a war crime!  To even threaten such an action, that of genocide, is also a crime! Further, it is correct to bring this to the attention of the United Nations, and demand that they take the appropriate action. Yet Newsom did none of this. Instead, he quickly changed the subject. 

Newsom: ‘’I’m proud to represent, yes, the fourth largest economy in the world, a state larger than 21 state populations combined….We’re also the most unTrump state, in the United States of America. …There is probably nothing more important than, on this topic, that you will hear today, than the imperative of ending Trump’s presidency, as we know it. And that, my friends, will happen this November, when the Democratic Party takes back the House of Representatives, and we finally reinstall what our founding fathers lived and died for, and that’s a system of checks and balances, in the spirit of the mayor of Boston’s remarks.’’

So ending the presidency of Trump is more important than the American policy of genocide? Since when does the United Nations concern itself with the internal affairs of a particular nation? It does not. The individual who occupies the office of the President of the United States, does not concern the United Nations, just as the midterm elections do not concern them. So why raise the subject?

Newsom: ‘’But my remarks are not just in the context of the invasive species, Donald Trump, but in the context of the work that we continue to do, despite the headwinds. The people that have their heads in the sand, soaked by oil. This in not complicated. The challenge is self evident. And some of us are as dumb as we want to be, subsidizing and doubling down on stupid. Subsidizing the very problem we’re trying to fix. It’s not complicated. It’s from burning coal, and gas and oil. And of course that’s what we’re doubling down in the United States, but not in the state of California…..’’

Did Newsom just refer to Donald Trump as an ‘’invasive species’’? That is not clear. We have to wonder why Newsom would start his speech with a reference to the official policy of genocide, on the part of America, and quickly switch to various subjects, from local elections to ‘’singing the praises’’ of ‘’entrepreneurial society’’, by which he of course means capitalism.

If Newsom was at all concerned that the official policy of the United States was that of genocide, he should have reminded the members of the United Nations that, not only is genocide illegal, a crime against humanity, but also the threat of genocide is also illegal. Is it too much to expect the members of the United Nations to perform their duty? To charge Trump with that crime?

Regardless, it is clear that the ruling class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, commonly referred to as the Oligarchy, is deeply divided, squabbling among themselves. This is of the utmost significance, as it satisfies one of the requirements for a successful revolution. Lenin covered this supremely well in his article, Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder:

‘’The fundamental law of revolution, which has been confirmed by all revolutions, and especially by all three Russian revolutions in the twentieth century, is as follows: for a revolution to take place, it is not enough for the exploited and oppressed masses to realize the impossibility of living in the old way, and demand changes; for a revolution to take place, it is essential that the exploiters should not be able to live and rule in the old way. It is only when the ‘lower classes’ do not want to live in the old way, and the ‘upper classes’ cannot carry on in the old way, that the revolution can triumph. This truth can be expressed in other words: revolution is impossible without a nation wide crisis (affecting both the exploiters and the exploited). It follows that, for a revolution to take place, it is essential first, that a majority of the workers (or at least a majority of the class conscious, thinking, and politically active workers), should fully realize that revolution is necessary, and that they should be prepared to die for it; second, that the ruling classes should be going through a governmental crisis, which draws even the most backward masses into politics (symptomatic of any genuine revolution is a rapid, tenfold and even hundredfold increase in the size of the working and oppressed masses- hitherto apathetic- who are capable of waging the political struggle), weakens the government, and makes it possible for the revolutionaries to rapidly overthrow it.’’ (italics by Lenin)

It is clear to the more astute, of the bourgeois scholars, that the ‘’common people’’, the workers and farmers, as well as the lower strata of the middle class, are completely ‘’fed up’’, demanding change. Even those simple souls are using the word ‘’revolution’’, although with the utmost reluctance and bitterness.

That begs the question: What can we expect? The answer is given 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 .’’

May I suggest that the current class struggle has indeed reached the ‘’decisive hour’’. The ‘’process of dissolution’’, which is going on within the ruling class of bourgeoisie, the Oligarchy, has indeed reached a ‘’violent, glaring character’’. As President Trump is now openly calling for genocide, in the name of the United States, it cannot possibly become more glaring!

So now we can expect a ‘’portion of the bourgeoisie’’, the portion that is capable of ‘’raising themselves’’, to the level of ‘’comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole’’, to ‘’join the revolutionary class’’, the ‘’class that holds the future in its hands’’. That class is of course the proletariat. 

Incidentally, middle class intellectuals have every reason for joining the proletariat. First and foremost, the multi billionaires, those who are worth tens and even hundreds of billions of dollars, have recently ‘’laid down the law’’. They have ‘’decreed’’ that merely five businesses are ‘’Too Big To Fail’’. But as every coin has two sides, the flip side of that coin is that all other businesses are ‘’Too Small To Succeed’’. 

It stands to reason that all members of the upper middle class, including those who had ‘’visions of joining the bourgeoisie’’, ‘’dancing in their heads’’, are about to receive a rude awakening. Not about to happen! The ‘’books are closed’’! All other businesses are about to face bankruptcy!

By way of contrast, such people have a bright, shining future, under a state of Scientific Socialism, in the form of Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. After all, the managerial and organizational skills those people have, will be in great demand, after the revolution. They will be highly respected, and paid accordingly.

In the mean time, they can assist in creating a true Scientific Socialist Communist Party, one which calls for Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. I can suggest that it also be an International Communist Party, but that remains to be seen. Separate independent republics may prefer to create their own Party.

The reason I say this, is because working people are no different from anyone else, in the sense that they need leaders. Equally without doubt, the working class gets into motion. In previous articles, I have compared this motion, to that of a motor vehicle. If the driver is lost, the vehicle invariably ends up going around in circles. It is only when the driver follows the roadmap, that the vehicle can reach the proper destination, that of Scientific Socialism. The Communist Party can be thought of as providing that roadmap.

I have also compared the class struggle to that of two boxers, one of whom is blindfolded. Naturally, the boxer who can see quite well, is able to land one crashing blow after another. By contrast, the boxer who is blindfolded, swinging wildly in all directions, lands the occasional blow, but more by chance that skill. In this childish comparison, the two boxers represent the two classes, the bourgeois and the proletariat. The proletariat is blindfolded, while the bourgeois is not. It is up to the Communist Party to ‘’remove the blindfold’’ from the proletariat. This is accomplished by raising the level of awareness, of the proletariat, making the workers aware of themselves, as a class, in opposition to the capitalist class, the bourgeoisie. Even the least advanced workers are capable of understanding these comparisons. 

No doubt, very soon, middle class intellectuals will come together with the most advanced members of the working class, and take part in the creation of a true Scientific Socialist Communist Party.

As previously mentioned, the American workers have a history of revolution, of which they have every right to be proud. What is more, they are about to build upon that revolutionary tradition. Lenin made this quite clear, on August 20, 1918, in his Letter To American Workers. That letter is just as relevant today, as when it was first written:

‘’Comrades! A Russian Bolshevik who took part in the 1905 Revolution, and who lived in your country for many years afterwards, has offered to convey my letter to you. I have accepted his proposal all the more gladly because just at the present time, the American revolutionary workers have to play an exceptionally important role as uncompromising enemies of American imperialism—the freshest, strongest and latest in joining in the world-wide slaughter of nations for the division of capitalist profits. At this very moment, the American multimillionaires, these modern slaveowners have turned an exceptionally tragic page in the bloody history of bloody imperialism by giving their approval—whether direct or indirect, open or hypocritically concealed, makes no difference—to the armed expedition launched by the brutal Anglo-Japanese imperialists for the purpose of throttling the first socialist republic.

‘’The history of modern, civilized America opened with one of those great, really liberating, really revolutionary wars of which there have been so few compared to the vast number of wars of conquest which, like the present imperialist war, were caused by squabbles among kings, landowners or capitalists over the division of usurped lands or ill-gotten gains. That was the war the American people waged against the British robbers who oppressed America and held her in colonial slavery, in the same way as these “civilized” bloodsuckers are still oppressing and holding in colonial slavery hundreds of millions of people in India, Egypt, and all parts of the world.

‘’About 150 years have passed since then. Bourgeois civilization has borne all its luxurious fruits. America has taken first place among the free and educated nations in level of development of the productive forces of collective human endeavour, in the utilization of machinery and of all the wonders of modern engineering. At the same time, America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism. The American people, who set the world an example in waging a revolutionary war against feudal slavery, now find themselves in the latest, capitalist stage of wage-slavery to a handful of multimillionaires, and find themselves playing the role of hired thugs who, for the benefit of wealthy scoundrels, throttled the Philippines in 1898 on the pretext of “liberating” them, and are throttling the Russian Socialist Republic in 1918 on the pretext of ‘protecting’ it from the Germans.

‘’The four years of the imperialist slaughter of nations, however, have not passed in vain. The deception of the people by the scoundrels of both robber groups, the British and the German, has been utterly exposed by indisputable and obvious facts. The results of the four years of war have revealed the general law of capitalism as applied to war between robbers for the division of spoils: the richest and strongest profited and grabbed most, while the weakest were utterly robbed, tormented, crushed and strangled.

‘’The British imperialist robbers were the strongest in number of ‘colonial slaves’. The British capitalists have not lost an inch of ‘their’ territory (i.e., territory they have grabbed over the centuries), but they have grabbed all the German colonies in Africa, they have grabbed Mesopotamia and Palestine, they have throttled Greece, and have begun to plunder Russia.

‘’The German imperialist robbers were the strongest in organization and discipline of ‘their’ armies, but weaker in regard to colonies. They have lost all their colonies, but plundered half of Europe and throttled the largest number of small countries and weak nations. What a great war of ‘liberation’ on both sides! How well the robbers of both groups, the Anglo-French and the German capitalists, together with their lackeys, the social-chauvinists, i.e., the socialists who went over to the side of ‘their own’ bourgeoisie, have ‘defended their country’!

‘’The American multimillionaires were, perhaps, richest of all, and geographically the most secure. They have profited more than all the rest. They have converted all, even the richest, countries into their tributaries. They have grabbed hundreds of billions of dollars. And every dollar is sullied with filth: the filth of the secret treaties between Britain and her ‘allies’, between Germany and her vassals, treaties for the division of the spoils, treaties of mutual ‘aid’ for oppressing the workers and persecuting the internationalist socialists. Every dollar is sullied with the filth of ‘profitable’ war contracts, which in every country made the rich richer and the poor poorer. And every dollar is stained with blood—from that ocean of blood that has been shed by the ten million killed and twenty million maimed in the great, noble, liberating and holy war to decide whether the British or the German robbers are to get most of the spoils, whether the British or the German thugs are to be foremost in throttling the weak nations all over the world.

‘’While the German robbers broke all records in war atrocities, the British have broken all records not only in the number of colonies they have grabbed, but also in the subtlety of their disgusting hypocrisy. This very day, the Anglo-French and American bourgeois newspapers are spreading, in millions and millions of copies, lies and slander about Russia, and are hypocritically justifying their predatory expedition against her on the plea that they want to ‘protect’ Russia from the Germans!

‘’It does not require many words to refute this despicable and hideous lie; it is sufficient to point to one well-known fact. In October 1917, after the Russian workers had overthrown their imperialist government, the Soviet government, the government of the revolutionary workers and peasants, openly proposed a just peace, a peace without annexations or indemnities, a peace that fully guaranteed equal rights to all nations—and it proposed such a peace to all the belligerent countries.

‘’It was the Anglo-French and the American bourgeoisie who refused to accept our proposal; it was they who even refused to talk to us about a general peace! It was they who betrayed the interests of all nations; it was they who prolonged the imperialist slaughter!

‘’It was they who, banking on the possibility of dragging Russia back into the imperialist war, refused to take part in the peace negotiations and thereby gave a free hand to the no less predatory German capitalists who imposed the annexationist and harsh Brest Peace upon Russia!

‘’It is difficult to imagine anything more disgusting than the hypocrisy with which the Anglo-French and American bourgeoisie are now ‘blaming’ us for the Brest Peace Treaty. The very capitalists of those countries which could have turned the Brest negotiations into general negotiations for a general peace are now our ‘accusers’! The Anglo-French imperialist vultures, who have profited from the plunder of colonies and the slaughter of nations, have prolonged the war for nearly a whole year after Brest, and yet they ‘accuse’ us, the Bolsheviks, who proposed a just peace to all countries, they accuse us, who tore up, published and exposed to public disgrace the secret, criminal treaties concluded between the ex-tsar and the Anglo-French capitalists.

‘’The workers of the whole world, no matter in what country they live, greet us, sympathize with us, applaud us for breaking the iron ring of imperialist ties, of sordid imperialist treaties, of imperialist chains—for breaking through to freedom, and making the heaviest sacrifices in doing so—for, as a socialist republic, although torn and plundered by the imperialists, keeping out of the imperialist war and raising the banner of peace, the banner of socialism for the whole world to see.

‘’Small wonder that the international imperialist gang hates us for this, that it ‘accuses’ us, that all the lackeys of the imperialists, including our Right Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, also ‘accuse’ us. The hatred these watchdogs of imperialism express for the Bolsheviks, and the sympathy of the class-conscious workers of the world, convince us more than ever of the justice of our cause.

‘’A real socialist would not fail to understand that for the sake of achieving victory over the bourgeoisie, for the sake of power passing to the workers, for the sake of starting the world proletarian revolution, we cannot and must not hesitate to make the heaviest sacrifices, including the sacrifice of part of our territory, the sacrifice of heavy defeats at the hands of imperialism. A real socialist would have proved by deeds his willingness for ‘his’ country to make the greatest sacrifice to give a real push forward to the cause of the socialist revolution.

‘’For the sake of ‘their’ cause, that is, for the sake of winning world hegemony, the imperialists of Britain and Germany have not hesitated to utterly ruin and throttle a whole number of countries, from Belgium and Serbia to Palestine and Mesopotamia. But must socialists wait with ‘their’ cause, the cause of liberating the working people of the whole world from the yoke of capital, of winning universal and lasting peace, until a path without sacrifice is found? Must they fear to open the battle until an easy victory is ‘guaranteed’? Must they place the integrity and security of ‘their’ bourgeois-created ‘fatherland’ above the interests of the world socialist revolution? The scoundrels in the international socialist movement who think this way, those lackeys who grovel to bourgeois morality, thrice stand condemned.

‘’The Anglo-French and American imperialist vultures ‘accuse’ us of concluding an ‘agreement’ with German imperialism. What hypocrites, what scoundrels they are to slander the workers’ government while trembling because of the sympathy displayed towards us by the workers of ‘their own’ countries! But their hypocrisy will be exposed. They pretend not to see the difference between an agreement entered into by ‘socialists’ with the bourgeoisie (their own or foreign) against the workers, against the working people, and an agreement entered into for the protection of the workers who have defeated their bourgeoisie, with the bourgeoisie of one national colour against the bourgeoisie of another colour in order that the proletariat may take advantage of the antagonisms between the different groups of bourgeoisie.

‘’In actual fact, every European sees this difference very well, and, as I shall show in a moment, the American people have had a particularly striking ‘illustration’ of it in their own history. There are agreements and agreements, there are fagots et fagots, as the French say.

‘’When in February 1918 the German imperialist vultures hurled their forces against unarmed, demobilized Russia, who had relied on the international solidarity of the proletariat before the world revolution had fully matured, I did not hesitate for a moment to enter into an “agreement” with the French monarchists. Captain Sadoul, a French army officer who, in words, sympathized with the Bolsheviks, but was in deeds a loyal and faithful servant of French imperialism, brought the French officer de Lubersac to see me. “I am a monarchist. My only aim is to secure the defeat of Germany,” de Lubersac declared to me. “That goes without saying (cela va sans dire ),” I replied. But this did not in the least prevent me from entering into an ‘agreement’ with de Lubersac concerning certain services that French army officers, experts in explosives, were ready to render us by blowing up railway lines in order to hinder the German invasion. This is an example of an ‘agreement’ of which every class-conscious worker will approve, an agreement in the interests of socialism. The French monarchist and I shook hands, although we knew that each of us would willingly hang his ‘partner’. But for a time our interests coincided. Against the advancing rapacious Germans, we, in the interests of the Russian and the world socialist revolution, utilized the equally rapacious counter-interests of other imperialists. In this way we served the interests of the working class of Russia and of other countries, we strengthened the proletariat and weakened the bourgeoisie of the whole world, we resorted to the methods, most legitimate and essential in every war, of manoeuvre, stratagem, retreat, in anticipation of the moment when the rapidly maturing proletarian revolution in a number of advanced countries completely matured.

‘’However much the Anglo-French and American imperialist sharks fume with rage, however much they slander us, no matter how many millions they spend on bribing the Right Socialist-Revolutionary, Menshevik and other social-patriotic newspapers, I shall not hesitate one second to enter into a similar ‘agreement’ with the German imperialist vultures if an attack upon Russia by Anglo-French troops calls for it. And I know perfectly well that my tactics will be approved by the class-conscious proletariat of Russia, Germany, France, Britain, America—in short, of the whole civilized world. Such tactics will ease the task of the socialist revolution, will hasten it, will weaken the international bourgeoisie, will strengthen the position of the working class which is defeating the bourgeoisie.

‘’The American people resorted to these tactics long ago to the advantage of their revolution. When they waged their great war of liberation against the British oppressors, they had also against them the French and the Spanish oppressors who owned a part of what is now the United States of North America. In their arduous war for freedom, the American people also entered into ‘agreements’ with some oppressors against others for the purpose of weakening the oppressors and strengthening those who were fighting in a revolutionary manner against oppression, for the purpose of serving the interests of the oppressed people. The American people took advantage of the strife between the French, the Spanish and the British; sometimes they even fought side by side with the forces of the French and Spanish oppressors against the British oppressors; first they defeated the British and then freed themselves (partly by ransom) from the French and the Spanish.

‘’Historical action is not the pavement of Nevsky Prospekt, said the great Russian revolutionary Chernyshevsky. A revolutionary would not agree to a proletarian revolution only ‘on the condition’ that it proceeds easily and smoothly, that there is, from the outset, combined action on the part of the proletarians of different countries, that there are guarantees against defeats, that the road of the revolution is broad, free and straight, that it will not be necessary during the march to victory to sustain the heaviest casualties, to ‘bide one’s time in a besieged fortress’, or to make one’s way along extremely narrow, impassable, winding and dangerous mountain tracks. Such a person is no revolutionary, he has not freed himself from the pedantry of the bourgeois intellectuals; such a person will be found constantly slipping into the camp of the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie, like our Right Socialist-Revolutionaries, Mensheviks and even (although more rarely) Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.

‘’Echoing the bourgeoisie, these gentlemen like to blame us for the ‘chaos’ of the revolution, for the ‘destruction’ of industry, for the unemployment and the food shortage. How hypocritical these accusations are, coming from those who welcomed and supported the imperialist war, or who entered into an ‘agreement’ with Kerensky who continued this war! It is this imperialist war that is the cause of all these misfortunes. The revolution engendered by the war can not avoid the terrible difficulties and suffering bequeathed it by the prolonged, ruinous, reactionary slaughter of the nations. To blame us for the ‘destruction’ of industry, or for the ‘terror’, is either hypocrisy or dull-witted pedantry; it reveals an inability to understand the basic conditions of the fierce class struggle, raised to the highest degree of intensity that is called revolution.

‘’Even when ‘accusers’ of this type do ‘recognize’ the class struggle, they limit themselves to verbal recognition; actually, they constantly slip into the philistine utopia of class ‘agreement’ and ‘collaboration’; for in revolutionary epochs the class struggle has always, inevitably, and in every country, assumed the form of civil war, and civil war is inconceivable without the severest destruction, terror and the restriction of formal democracy in the interests of this war. Only unctuous parsons—whether Christian or ‘secular’ in the persons of parlour, parliamentary socialists— cannot see, understand and feel this necessity. Only a life less ‘man in the muffler’ can shun the revolution for this reason instead of plunging into battle with the utmost ardour and determination at a time when history demands that the greatest problems of humanity be solved by struggle and war.

‘’The American people have a revolutionary tradition which has been adopted by the best representatives of the American proletariat, who have repeatedly expressed their complete solidarity with us Bolsheviks. That tradition is the war of liberation against the British in the eighteenth century and the Civil War in the nineteenth century. In some respects, if we only take into consideration the ‘destruction’ of some branches of industry and of the national economy, America in 1870 was behind 1860. But what a pedant, what an idiot would anyone be to deny on these grounds the immense, world-historic, progressive and revolutionary significance of the American Civil War of 1863-65!

‘’The representatives of the bourgeoisie understand that for the sake of overthrowing Negro slavery, of overthrowing the rule of the slaveowners, it was worth letting the country go through long years of civil war, through the abysmal ruin, destruction and terror that accompany every war. But now, when we are confronted with the vastly greater task of overthrowing capitalist wage-slavery, of overthrowing the rule of the bourgeoisie—now, the representatives and defenders of the bourgeoisie, and also the reformist socialists who have been frightened by the bourgeoisie and are shunning the revolution, cannot and do not want to understand that civil war is necessary and legitimate.

‘’The American workers will not follow the bourgeoisie. They will be with us, for civil war against the bourgeoisie. The whole history of the world and of the American labour movement strengthens my conviction that this is so. I also recall the words of one of the most beloved leaders of the American proletariat, Eugene Debs, who wrote in the Appeal to Reason, I believe towards the end of 1915, in the article “What Shall I Fight For” (I quoted this article at the beginning of 1916 at a public meeting of workers in Berne, Switzerland)—that he, Debs, would rather be shot than vote credits for the present criminal and reactionary war; that he, Debs, knows of only one holy and, from the proletarian standpoint, legitimate war, namely: the war against the capitalists, the war to liberate mankind from wage-slavery.

‘’I am not surprised that Wilson, the head of the American multimillionaires and servant of the capitalist sharks, has thrown Debs into prison. Let the bourgeoisie be brutal to the true internationalists, to the true representatives of the revolutionary proletariat! The more fierce and brutal they are, the nearer the day of the victorious proletarian revolution.

‘’We are blamed for the destruction caused by our revolution. . . . Who are the accusers? The hangers-on of the bourgeoisie, of that very bourgeoisie who, during the four years of the imperialist war, have destroyed almost the whole of European culture and have reduced Europe to barbarism, brutality and starvation. These bourgeoisie now demand we should not make a revolution on these ruins, amidst this wreckage of culture, amidst the wreckage and ruins created by the war, nor with the people who have been brutalized by the war. How humane and righteous the bourgeoisie are!

‘’Their servants accuse us of resorting to terror. . . . The British bourgeoisie have forgotten their 1649, the French bourgeoisie have forgotten their 1793. Terror was just and legitimate when the bourgeoisie resorted to it for their own benefit against feudalism. Terror became monstrous and criminal when the workers and poor peasants dared to use it against the bourgeoisie! Terror was just and legitimate when used for the purpose of substituting one exploiting minority for another exploiting minority. Terror became monstrous and criminal when it began to be used for the purpose of overthrowing every exploiting minority, to be used in the interests of the vast actual majority, in the interests of the proletariat and semi-proletariat, the working class and the poor peasants!

‘’The international imperialist bourgeoisie have slaughtered ten million men and maimed twenty million in ‘their’ war, the war to decide whether the British or the German vultures are to rule the world.

‘’If our war, the war of the oppressed and exploited against the oppressors and the exploiters, results in half a million or a million casualties in all countries, the bourgeoisie will say that the former casualties are justified, while the latter are criminal.

‘’The proletariat will have something entirely different to say.

‘’Now, amidst the horrors of the imperialist war, the proletariat is receiving a most vivid and striking illustration of the great truth taught by all revolutions and bequeathed to the workers by their best teachers, the founders of modern socialism. This truth is that no revolution can be successful unless the resistance of the exploiters is crushed. When we, the workers and toiling peasants, captured state power, it became our duty to crush the resistance of the exploiters. We are proud we have been doing this. We regret we are not doing it with sufficient firmness and determination.

‘’We know that fierce resistance to the socialist revolution on the part of the bourgeoisie is inevitable in all countries, and that this resistance will grow with the growth of this revolution. The proletariat will crush this resistance; during the struggle against the resisting bourgeoisie it will finally mature for victory and for power.

‘’Let the corrupt bourgeois press shout to the whole world about every mistake our revolution makes. We are not daunted by our mistakes. People have not become saints because the revolution has begun. The toiling classes who for centuries have been oppressed, downtrodden and forcibly held in the vice of poverty, brutality and ignorance cannot avoid mistakes when making a revolution. And, as I pointed out once before, the corpse of bourgeois society cannot be nailed in a coffin and buried. The corpse of capitalism is decaying and disintegrating in our midst, polluting the air and poisoning our lives, enmeshing that which is new, fresh, young and virile in thousands of threads and bonds of that which is old, moribund and decaying.

‘’For every hundred mistakes we commit, and which the bourgeoisie and their lackeys (including our own Mensheviks and Right Socialist-Revolutionaries) shout about to the whole world, 10,000 great and heroic deeds are performed, greater and more heroic because they are simple and inconspicuous amidst the everyday life of a factory district or a remote village, performed by people who are not accustomed (and have no opportunity) to shout to the whole world about their successes.

‘’But even if the contrary were true—although I know such an assumption is wrong—even if we committed 10,000 mistake for every 100 correct actions we performed, even in that case our revolution would be great and invincible, and so it will be in the eyes of world history, because, for the first time, not the minority, not the rich alone, not the educated alone, but the real people, the vast majority of the working people, are themselves building a new life, are by their own experience solving the most difficult problems of socialist organization .

‘’Every mistake committed in the course of such work, in the course of this most conscientious and earnest work of tens of millions of simple workers and peasants in reorganizing their whole life, every such mistake is worth thousands and millions of ‘lawless’ successes achieved by the exploiting minority—successes in swindling and duping the working people. For only through such mistakes will the workers and peasants learn to build the new life, learn to do without capitalists; only in this way will they hack a path for themselves—through thousands of obstacles—to victorious socialism.

‘’Mistakes are being committed in the course of their revolutionary work by our peasants, who at one stroke, in one night, October 25-26 (old style), 1917, entirely abolished the private ownership of land, and are now, month after month, overcoming tremendous difficulties and correcting their mistakes themselves, solving in a practical way the most difficult tasks of organizing new conditions of economic life, of fighting the kulaks, providing land for the working people (and not for the rich), and of changing to communist large-scale agriculture.

‘’Mistakes are being committed in the course of their revolutionary work by our workers, who have already, after a few months, nationalized almost all the biggest factories and plants, and are learning by hard, everyday work the new task of managing whole branches of industry, are setting the nationalized enterprises going, overcoming the powerful resistance of inertia, petty-bourgeois mentality and selfishness, and, brick by brick, are laying the foundation of new social ties, of a new labour discipline, of a new influence of the workers’ trade unions over their members.

‘’Mistakes are committed in the course of their revolutionary work by our Soviets, which were created as far back as 1905 by a mighty upsurge of the people. The Soviets of Workers and Peasants are a new type of state, a new and higher type of democracy, a form of the proletarian dictatorship, a means of administering the state without the bourgeoisie and against the bourgeoisie. For the first time democracy is here serving the people, the working people, and has ceased to be democracy for the rich as it still is in all bourgeois republics, even the most democratic. For the first time, the people are grappling, on a scale involving one hundred million, with the problem of implementing the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and semi-proletariat—a problem which, if not solved, makes socialism out of the question.

‘’Let the pedants, or the people whose minds are incurably stuffed with bourgeois-democratic or parliamentary prejudices, shake their heads in perplexity about our Soviets, about the absence of direct elections, for example. These people have forgotten nothing and have learned nothing during the period of the great upheavals of 1914-18. The combination of the proletarian dictatorship with the new democracy for the working people—of civil war with the widest participation of the people in politics—such a combination cannot be brought about at one stroke, nor does it fit in with the outworn modes of routine parliamentary democracy. The contours of a new world, the world of socialism, are rising before us in the shape of the Soviet Republic. It is not surprising that this world does not come into being ready-made, does not spring forth like Minerva from the head of Jupiter.

‘’The old bourgeois-democratic constitutions waxed eloquent about formal equality and right of assembly; but our proletarian and peasant Soviet Constitution casts aside the hypocrisy of formal equality. When the bourgeois republicans overturned thrones they did not worry about formal equality between monarchists and republicans. When it is a matter of overthrowing the bourgeoisie, only traitors or idiots can demand formal equality of rights for the bourgeoisie. ‘Freedom of assembly’ for workers and peasants is not worth a farthing when the best buildings belong to the bourgeoisie. Our Soviets have confiscated all the good buildings in town and country from the rich and have transferred all of them to the workers and peasants for their unions and meetings. This is our freedom of assembly—for the working people! This is the meaning and content of our Soviet, our socialist Constitution!

‘’That is why we are all so firmly convinced that no matter what misfortunes may still be in store for it, our Republic of Soviets is invincible.

 ‘’It is invincible because every blow struck by frenzied imperialism, every defeat the international bourgeoisie inflict on us, rouses more and more sections of the workers and peasants to the struggle, teaches them at the cost of enormous sacrifice, steels them and engenders new heroism on a mass scale. 

‘’We know that help from you will probably not come soon, comrade American workers, for the revolution is developing in different countries in different forms and at different tempos (and it cannot be otherwise). We know that although the European proletarian revolution has been maturing very rapidly lately, it may, after all, not flare up within the next few weeks. We are banking on the inevitability of the world revolution, but this does not mean that we are such fools as to bank on the revolution inevitably coming on a definite and early date. We have seen two great revolutions in our country, 1905 and 1917, and we know revolutions are not made to order, or by agreement. We know that circumstances brought our Russian detachment of the socialist proletariat to the fore not because of our merits, but because of the exceptional backwardness of Russia, and that before the world revolution breaks out a number of separate revolutions may be defeated.

‘’In spite of this, we are firmly convinced that we are invincible, because the spirit of mankind will not be broken by the imperialist slaughter. Mankind will vanquish it. And the first country to break the convict chains of the imperialist war was our country. We sustained enormously heavy casualties in the struggle to break these chains, but we broke them. We are free from imperialist dependence, we have raised the banner of struggle for the complete overthrow of imperialism for the whole world to see.

‘’We are now, as it were, in a besieged fortress, waiting for the other detachments of the world socialist revolution to come to our relief. These detachments exist, they are more numerous than ours, they are maturing, growing, gaining more strength the longer the brutalities of imperialism continue. The workers are breaking away from their social traitors—the Gomperses, Hendersons, Renaudels, Scheidemanns and Renners. Slowly but surely the workers are adopting communist, Bolshevik tactics and are marching towards the proletarian revolution, which alone is capable of saving dying culture and dying mankind.

‘’In short, we are invincible, because the world proletarian revolution is invincible.’’ (italics by Lenin)

Invincible! Allow me to stress the fact that the ‘’world proletarian revolution is invincible’’! It has not happened before now, partly because the working class has been deprived of its leaders, some of them murdered, others ‘’bought off’’’, and partly because certain otherwise fine scientific socialist leaders made some rather serious mistakes. Now it is our duty to learn from the mistakes of those revolutionaries, so as not to repeat those mistakes, and to follow the correct scientific socialist theories of Marx and Lenin. We will know that we are succeeding in this noble endeavour, when the posters and signs read:

Workers of the World, Unite!

Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

Soviet Power!

Peace! Democracy! Scientific Socialism!