Author: Gerald Mcisaac

The experience of previous revolutions has revealed, that such revolutions usually start with shut downs in the transportation industry. From there, they guickly spread to other branches of industry. 

I consider this to be significant, because here in North American, a couple of years ago, the Canadian truckers occupied the capital city of Ottawa, and then blocked various border crossings. As the protest spread, a great many farmers joined them.

More recently, there were calls for truckers to once again occupy Ottawa, but that never happened. In much the same manner, there was talk of sending a great many trucks to the southern border of America. That too, never took place.  

Now, certain of the American truckers are rising up, calling for a boycott of the city of New York. As yet, it is not clear that this boycott is effective. There are reports, as yet unconfirmed, that as many as twenty percent of the truckers are refusing to drive into New York City. 

True, many of them are protesting in support of Donald Trump. That is of secondary significance. The main thing is that they are becoming politically active. It is very likely that they are not fully aware of the political power they have. 

The truckers are fond of voicing an expression: ‘’If you bought it, we brought it.’’ There is considerable truth to this. Almost everything that consumers buy off store shelves, has been brought in by truckers. If the truckers stop trucking, the country will soon be brought to a standstill.

Almost certainly, most truckers are workers, hourly employees, proletarians. Yet some of them are owner – operators, in that they own the trucks they drive. Technically, these drivers are classified as lower middle class, small business owners, or petty bourgeois. In fact, they live in constant fear of losing their trucks, with good reason. Frequently, their trucks are repossessed by the banks, and they return to being hourly employees, proletarians.

Among the truckers, as can be expected, leaders are emerging. Yet as also can be expected, these leaders are not class conscious. They are clearly angry and frustrated, with good reason. They are also well aware that there is strength in numbers. So of course they want to band together and lash out, but lack focus, as they are not aware of the fact that they are at the centre of a class conflict.

This is to be expected, because the conditions of life, within the working class, do not lead to the workers becoming aware of themselves, as a class, with their own class interests. That awareness must come from an outside source. That outside source is middle class intellectuals. 

The fact is that Marx, Engels and Lenin, were middle class intellectuals. They turned their backs on a relatively comfortable middle class life style, so that they could work in the service of the working people, by whom I of course mean the hourly employees, the proletariat, as well as the family farmers, otherwise known as peasants. In this, they performed a magnificent job.

We can only stress the fact that they were Scientific Socialists, and placed the study of society, including capitalism, on a scientific basis. 

Perhaps it would be best to let Marx explain this, in his own words. in a letter to Weydemeyer, dated March 5, 1852: “And now as to myself, no credit is due to me for discovering the existence of classes in modern society or 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 classes. What I did that was new was to prove: (1) that the existence of classes is only bound up with the 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.’’

From the detailed study that Marx made, of society in general, and capitalism in particular, he proved that ‘’the class struggle necessarily leads to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat’’. We should note that the ‘’class struggle’’ to which Marx was referring, is of course the class struggle between the workers, the proletariat, and the capitalists, now the billionaires, the bourgeoisie. 

Marx goes on to state that this class struggle ‘’necessarily leads to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat’’. The key word here is ‘’necessarily’’. This is to say that the monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, must be first overthrown, through revolution, and then crushed. After the revolution, the Proletariat must exercise Dictatorship over them. Otherwise they will return to power.

There is a reason that the working people are largely unaware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. These theories are not taught in public school. They are taught only in University, and then only with a view to distorting them. As very few working class people can afford to attend University, they remain largely ‘’in the dark’’.

As it is mainly only the middle class that is able to attend University, and become exposed to the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin, it follows that it is up to middle class Marxist intellectuals to bring this awareness to the working class. The best way to do this is through the creation of a Communist Party, one which calls for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Such a Party can serve the working class, as well as farmers and at least the lower strata of the middle class. 

This was the very thing that Lenin managed in Russia, in 1898, with the creation of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. The name of the Party was later changed, first to the Bolshevik Party, then to the Communist Party. Bear in mind that those who fight for socialism, also fight for democracy.

Yet in North America, this is not happening. There are numerous parties and groups, some of which claim to be Marxist, while denying the necessity of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. These parties are revisionists, as they are determined to revise the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. We can have nothing to do with those parties, as they are completely devoid of principle. 

Others claim to be socialist, but not Marxist. Such people are referred to as utopian socialists, and tend to fight for reforms under the democratic republic.

These people deserve our respect, as they are the natural and desirable allies of all true Marxists, Communists.

Incidentally, Lenin refers to the lack of a true Communist Party, as a ‘’great misfortune’’. 

But then, Lenin was also of the opinion that a ‘’mighty, popular revolutionary movement, may rectify this deficiency’’. He went on to stress the importance of ‘’exposing traitors and renegades’’ to the working class, as a means of ‘’supporting 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.’’

This is to say that, in the absence of a true Communist Party, we can expect to find ‘’revolutionary groups of genuine internationalist workers’’. This makes complete sense, as ‘’birds of a feather flock together’’. In other words, people with similar interests and beliefs tend to ‘’buddy up’’. Advanced workers come together in groups!

Lenin also made it clear that a successful Scientific Socialist revolution does not necessarily require a Communist Party, but it does require a progressive class. The working class, the proletariat, is that progressive class. We can expect the vast majority of working people to follow the lead of the ‘’group of internationalist workers’’, especially the ‘’leaders in their midst’’.

Now it is up to those groups of advanced workers to ‘’take the bull by the horns’’, to ‘’self educate’’, to learn the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. They will have to train themselves, to rise to the level of true Communists! 

This is not as difficult as it may sound. There is certainly no need to go to University! Most working people are now quite cultured and own, or at least have access to, various digital devices. Time to put those devices to good use!

The fact of the matter is that a great deal of revolutionary literature is now available on the internet, and can be easily downloaded. So I suggest that the most advanced, ‘’internationalist’’ workers, download the most important works of Lenin, especially State and Revolution, as it is the most relevant. That book explains the importance of smashing the existing state apparatus, at the time of the revolution, and replacing it with another state apparatus, for the purpose of crushing the billionaires. This state apparatus is known as the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the ‘’touchstone’’ of a true Marxist, according to Lenin. I understand that it is even available in audio form, so that workers can listen to that while driving or working.

I also recommend Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, What Is To Be Done?, and Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder, also by Lenin. An understanding of those key revolutionary works will enable workers to become proper Communists, Scientific Socialists.

As Lenin mentioned, those workers who are advanced, ‘’internationalist’’, tend to come together, in ‘’groups’’. In turn, the vast majority of less advanced workers will ‘’soon turn away from the traitors and renegades, and follow these groups’’. From these groups of advanced workers, leaders will emerge, and from reading the essential works of Marx and Lenin, will receive valuable training.

There is no need for these groups of advanced workers to get together in person, and in many cases, such a gathering may not be indicated. There is no shortage of government agencies which are constantly on the lookout, for those whom they consider to be ‘’subversives’’. These groups can ‘’gather’’ on the internet, in that which is referred to as ‘’live streaming’’. At that time, they can freely discuss that which Lenin wrote, in his major works.

In this way, from within certain groups of advanced workers, potential leaders will receive the proper training. Their level of awareness will rise, they will become class conscious, true Marxists, focused on revolution. They will become aware of the necessity of revolution, of smashing the existing state apparatus, and crushing the existing class of monopoly capitalist parasites, the billionaires, under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. 

It is these working class revolutionaries, true Marxists, Communists, who will lead the revolution to victory. We will know that these advanced workers are successful, that countless working class people are listening to them, when the expression Dictatorship of the Proletariat, is being openly discussed. May the banners and signs proclaim:

Workers of the World, Unite!

Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

Scientific Socialism!

As I write this, the Supreme Court has just announced, by a unanimous decision, that the state of Colorado does not have the authority to keep Trump off of the ballot, for the presidency. Excellent news!

Granted, not everyone on the Left, agrees with me. In fact, there is considerable weeping and wailing, within the world of all of those who consider themselves to be socialists. This is not too surprising, as so many of those people tend to be starry eyed optimists, fully expecting the Supreme Court to stop Trump from becoming president again. That is not about to happen! It is up to the common people, the working class, the proletariat, as well as the farmers and middle class people, to stop Trump!

The significance of this decision, by the Supreme Court, has been largely overlooked, at least by those on the Left. In effect, the SC ruled that the states do not have the right to meddle in a federal election! 

Which is precisely the very thing the states have been doing, since the days of the Civil War!

This calls for a little explanation. 

The Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution, lays out the procedure to be followed in all federal elections. As I have documented, in a previous article, the fact that this procedure is not being followed, there is no need to repeat it here. Yet as the Twelfth Amendment is so important, I have chosen to copy it here, as this is a different subject.

Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution:

‘’The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;

The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;

The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.

The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.’’

No doubt, all Americans can testify to the fact that this procedure is not being followed! Not even close! For that reason, we can say that Trump has a point when he said that the 2020 federal election was fraudulent! Because it was! But not for the reasons he stated! It was fraudulent because it did not follow the procedure laid out in the Constitution! Just as the 20-16 federal election was fraudulent! That was the election that placed Trump in the White House! Trump too, was a fraudulent president!

Under the current system, there is no federal election! There is a ‘’presidential election’’, which is held in November, in which the voters are asked to choose between the candidates for Presidency, of the two main stream political parties, Democratic and Republican. It should be noted that each Presidential candidate gets to choose a ‘’running mate’’, for the office of Vice President. 

The ‘’winner’’ of that election is not the candidate who gets the most popular votes. Indeed not. The ‘’winner’’ is the candidate who wins the most Electoral Votes! That is where state laws come into play!

Each state has a certain number of Electoral Votes. Each state also has laws which require their Electors to vote for a particular candidate of one of the two Parties, Democratic or Republican, depending upon the outcome of the popular vote. All states are meddling in a federal election!

The legal experts are convinced that the Supreme Court just made it quite clear that only the Congress has the right to disqualify candidates, for any federal office. That includes the Presidency and the Vice Presidency. Not the states!

It may be objected, that if the current procedure was Unconstitutional, it would have been ruled as such, many years ago. Such is hardly the case. The Supreme Court rules only on matters of law which are brought before it. As no one has ever challenged the validity of the federal elections, as they are currently being applied, the Supreme Court has never issued a ruling on the matter. 

It may also be objected that if the Supreme Court was to rule that the last federal election was fraudulent, then Biden is an illegitimate President, so that Kamala Harris is in line for the Presidency. But as Harris is an illegitimate Vice President, the next in line for the Presidency is the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. From Biden to Harris to Johnson! From bad to worse to ‘’worser’’!

Of course, I am suggesting that Leftist lawyers challenge the 20-20 federal election, on the grounds that it did not follow the procedure laid out in the Twelfth Amendment. Not that I am a lawyer, so I do not know the procedure to be followed. I do know that the Supreme Court could choose to decline to consider such a challenge. That is of secondary significance.

The main thing is to raise the level of awareness of the working people, by whom I mean the proletariat, as well as family farmers and at least the lower level of the middle class. The vast majority of those people are honest, hard working, law abiding, tax paying, patriotic American citizens. We must respect their beliefs. This includes their belief in the democratic process. As that includes their belief that the system can be changed from within, we must assist them in trying to do just that. Experience is a fine teacher!

It may also be objected that such a legal court challenge could cost a great deal. To this I can only respond that the 20-20 federal election cost $14.4 Billion! That was over double the 20-16 federal election! It is very likely that the forth coming 2024 election will cost far more!

I mention this as a means of putting this into perspective. The ruling class of billionaires can afford to spend billions, on a federal election, but have nothing to spare for those who are hungry, unemployed and homeless. 

We can expect the ranks of those people to grow, as ever more businesses go broke. For that reason, I can only suggest that those who are currently employed, consider investing a little money in a legal challenge. I am sure that there are Leftist lawyers, who are experts in Constitutional law, who are prepared to volunteer their time. Otherwise, they will soon wish they had! Trump has every intention of returning to power, and settling a few old scores. That maniac must be stopped!

It is also a fact that he is but one member of a monopoly capitalist class of billionaires, whom are referred to as the bourgeoisie. That whole class must be overthrown, through revolution. The only class that can overthrow the billionaires is the working class, the proletariat. Now it is a matter of raising their level of awareness, to the point that they embrace the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. 

A Supreme Court challenge to the legality of the ‘’November election’’ is certain to get the attention of all working people! As soon as they are convinced that all federal elections, for the last century and a half, have been fraudulent, then they are sure to become more ‘’sweetly reasonable’’. This is to say that they will become more open to the ideas of Scientific Socialism, including the Marxist theory of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. 

That is a big step in the right direction.

Thanks to Donald Trump, people are now openly discussing fascism. The reason for this is quite simple. It is because Trump is a fascist. He plans to become president, once again, and set himself up as dictator, in charge of a fascist state. 

As this has happened before, in Italy and Germany, it is feared that it could happen in America. These fears are well grounded. In fact, Trump plans to come to power, just as Hitler came to power in Germany, one way or another.

In 1923, Hitler made an attempt to come to power, the ‘’other way’’. He tried to overthrow the German government. This has gone down in history as the ‘’Beer Hall Putsch’’. The attempt was unsuccessful, and Hitler was sent to prison. While in prison, he wrote his famous book, ‘’Mein Kampf’’, or ‘’My Struggle’’. It became the ‘’bible’’ of National Socialism, or ‘’Nazism’’, in the German Third Reich.

This Nazi manifesto reveals the racist ideology of the fascists. It  identifies the ‘’Aryan’’ as the master race. It also singles out the ‘’Jew’’ as the ‘’parasite’’, responsible for the defeat of Germany in the First World War. As well, it stresses the need for Germans to seek ‘’Lebensraum’’, or ‘’living space’’, in the East, at the expense of the Slavs. This is justified through hatred of the Marxists, especially the ‘’Bolsheviks’’, of the Soviet Union.

It is to the credit of American journalists, that they have documented the fact that the rhetoric of Trump, is taken directly from the manifesto of Hitler. Yet there is more to it than that. 

The first edition of Mein Kampf was clearly written by Hitler alone. Critics have described it as ‘’repetitious, wandering, illogical and filled with grammatical errors’’, that which is characteristic of a ‘’half educated man’’. Yet those same critics say that the book was ‘’skillfully demagogic’’, appealing to the ‘’dissatisfied elements in Germany’’. Of course, it was also anti semitic, anti democratic and anti Marxist.

In popular terms, we can say that Hitler was ‘’talented’’. He had a certain ‘’charisma’’, which is difficult to define. It is not something which is taught in University. Those who have charisma, tend to possess a certain superficial charm, as well as an animal like ‘’cunning’’. He instinctively learned, ‘’on the streets’’, how to take advantage of the most basic impulses of the lowest strata of society. In fact, in terms of manipulating people, he was supremely successful. 

This made Hitler a leader, especially among the ‘’less advanced’’, lower members of society. Such people are politely referred to as ‘’social outcasts’’. Less polite terms, but more common, include such labels as ‘’ragtag and bobtail’’, ‘’lowlife’’, ’’gutter sweepings’’, ‘’trailer court trash’’, ‘’dregs of humanity’’, ‘’scum of the earth’’ and ‘’great unwashed mob’’. The scientific term is ‘’lumpen proletariat’’. 

Now in America, we have another demagogue, no less charismatic, no less cunning, no less stupid, no less determined to establish a fascist society, with himself as dictator. That man is Donald Trump. He too, is no less dangerous than Hitler!

That being said, this begs the question: How could Hitler, a man of limited education, write such a book? Despite its numerous flaws, it became wildly popular. The short answer is that Hitler did not write Mein Kampf. He merely plagiarised the work of a famous  American industrialist, Henry Ford! 

Henry Ford is best known as a supremely successful American businessman, the proud owner of Ford Motor Company. He was a multi millionaire, and has been given credit for creating the first moving assembly line. This process is now used in large scale manufacturing, and has resulted in the production of vehicles at a record breaking rate. He is less well known as a dedicated racist. 

Ford was a man of action. He did not keep these racist beliefs to himself. He owned a weekly newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, and used it to spread his racist garbage. 

Over a three year period, from 1920 to 1922, he wrote an impressive series of articles. These articles were later collected and published in a four volume set, titled: ‘’The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem’’.

A cursory examination of those writings, reveals that the author, Henry Ford, was a well educated man, an intellectual. He clearly devoted a great deal of time and effort, into presenting a very carefully thought out, elaborate, detailed, well organized thesis. Which in no way changes the fact that it is a racist pile of garbage! Aside from the grammar, it is no different from Mein Kampf! That is not a coincidence!

It is reasonable to assume that, while in prison, Hitler managed to get his hands on a German translation of the four volume set of articles, written by Ford. Then, with his limited academic ability, and even more limited intellect, Hitler was able to focus on the parts which he could understand, and wrote them down. These collected writings, which he copied from Henry Ford, he then published in book form. He titled that book ‘’Mein Kampf’’. 

This is significant, because the current American ruling class of monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, have decided to take the advice of this racist demagogue, Henry Ford. They have decided to establish a fascist state, with themselves as the ‘’master race’’, and Trump as the figure head dictator. 

I have chosen to use the word ‘’significant’’, because they must not be allowed to establish that fascist state. They must be stopped! And, as any common person is well aware, ‘’the best way to kill a snake, is to cut off its head’’!

As the journalists have correctly pointed out, the poison which Trump is now spewing, is a direct quote from Hitler. Yet Hitler was merely quoting Henry Ford. Now it is necessary to go directly to the source, to focus on that which was written by Ford. After all, it is very likely that the American fascists are merely following the ‘’script’’, written by Henry Ford.

Not that they are about to admit this! Henry Ford is considered to be an American ‘’role model’’, a ‘’hero’’, an ‘’icon’’, an ‘’inspiration’’ to countless young Americans. The ‘’establishment’’ uses Ford as ‘’proof’’ that in America, ‘’anyone can make it’’! Such nonsense!

It is necessary to expose Henry Ford, as the racist piece of human garbage that he was! It was Ford who provided the theoretical ‘’justification’’, or the ‘’foundation’’, if you will, for fascism. In Germany, it took the form of Nazis. And now the American fascists are taking the advice of Ford, attempting to establish their dictatorship here! An American fascist state!

With that in mind, may I suggest to intellectual members of the ‘’upper classes’’, that there is a lesson to be learned here. Ford was clearly an intelligent man. He was not stupid! His theories, of racial superiority, were well thought out, and presented in a very scholarly manner. They were also ridiculous, completely devoid of logic! He may have been intelligent, but he was not rational!

This lack of logical, rational, clear thinking, is characteristic of all fascists. This makes them all the more dangerous, as they are completely unpredictable! Just as Hitler attempted to overthrow the German government, so too, Trump may make a similar effort, to overthrow the American government! 

Still not convinced? A fine example of the lack of logic, among the fascists, is the fact that Hitler warned about the dangers of a war on two fronts. He learned this, from his experience in the First World War. Then in June of 1941, while Germany was still at war with Great Britain, he invaded the Soviet Union. War on two fronts! The very thing he had advised against, in Mein Kampf! 

Fascists are completely irrational! They make no sense! Regardless of how intelligent they are! They may strike out at any group of people, for any reason, or for no reason! Because they can! And they will! Once they come to power, no one is safe from the fascists!

Now in America, the ruling class can no longer rule in the old way, and have decided to change their method of rule. The new method of rule, upon which they have decided, is fascism. 

It is very likely that the intellectuals, within the class of monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, have failed to think this through. Or perhaps it is their intellectual servants, members of the middle class, who are responsible. Either way, all bourgeois intellectuals would do well to bear in mind that in Nazi Germany, all intellectuals were shot!

After the Nazis came to power, they took the advice of their intellectual advisors, those whom had helped place them in power.  That advice included the killing of all intellectuals! So the Nazis rounded up all intellectuals, including the intellectuals who called for all intellectuals to be shot, and shot them! 

With that in mind, my advice, to all upper class bourgeois intellectuals, is to ‘’bail out’’! Cut your losses! If the billionaires succeed in establishing a fascist dictatorship, as they have planned, then you can expect to be arrested and shot! This happened in Nazi Germany, and it could happen here!

The one and only alternative, is to join the ‘’revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands’’! That revolutionary class is the proletariat!

The revolutionary motion is growing ever stronger! Now is the time to raise the level of awareness of the working class, to prepare them for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

As I have documented the manner in which this can be done, in previous articles, there is no need to repeat it here. I can only stress the fact that middle class intellectuals have a bright future, but only under Scientific Socialism, the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. 

By contrast, those same intellectuals have no future under capitalism, certainly not fascism. Especially if the fascists decide to ‘’liquidate’’ all intellectuals, including the intellectuals who helped place them in power. And they will! As for those who suggest that makes no sense, bear in mind that fascists tend to be not overly rational. Consider Donald Trump. Not the ‘’sharpest tool in the shed’’! Just a typical fascist. 

Now that the year is coming to a close, it is customary for the journalists to summarize the major events that happened, in the previous year, or at least the major political events. Then they tend to predict the political events, in the forthcoming year. As if they had the foggiest clue!

Yet one guest has distinguished herself, as she provided an analysis which is close to the truth. This is all the more remarkable, in that she was able to point out the class distinctions, without once mentioning the word class!

She was introduced as a ‘’political reporter’’, and a ‘’former Republican strategist and pollster’’. She is convinced that most Americans are of the opinion that ‘’voters admire the fighter mentality’’, that they are looking for someone ‘’to fight against a system that seem to be working against them’’, because it is a system that ‘’works for the elite, for the few, and not for the people, not for them’’. 

My dear former Republican strategist, you are so right when you suggest that Americans ‘’admire the fighter mentality’’! No one ever suggested that Americans are a bunch of wimps! Pacifists, they are not! Your country was borne through revolution! It was the Revolutionary War against British colonialism, which gave birth to your country! Further, it was the American Civil War which destroyed the completely reactionary class of slave owners! Americans have a proud history of revolution! 

You are also correct when you state that ‘’voters’’, or at least working class voters, are looking for ‘’someone’’, by whom you mean a leader(!), who is going to ‘’fight against a system that seems to be working against them’’. 

It only ‘’seems’’ that way, because that is precisely the case! That ‘’system’’, to which you refer, is nothing other than the bourgeois state apparatus, which has been set up, with the express purpose of crushing the working class! The working class knows this, with their class instincts! They know that the ‘’system’’, truly ‘’works for the elite’’, those who were formerly referred to as the 1%, now referred to as the billionaires, technically referred to as the bourgeoisie. That is the class of people, whom you, ever so politely, refer to as the ‘’elite’’. 

Dear lady, try to get it through that thick, middle class skull of yours, the fact that classes exist! What is more, since the time they came into existence, they have been in conflict! Class conflict! The capitalist class, the bourgeoisie, against the working class, the proletariat! Our interests are diametrically opposed. That which is in the best interest of one class, is in the worst interest of the other class. 

No doubt, you are aware of the fact, that the revolutionary movement is becoming ever stronger. The ‘’class conflict’’ is approaching open ‘’class warfare’’. Perhaps you think that, as a member of the middle class, the petty bourgeois, you are in a  position of ‘’safe neutrality’’. Such is hardly the case! There is no such ‘’position’’!

The billionaires recently declared war on the middle class! They plan to wipe out that class! All banks but eight, and all businesses but five, are Too Small To Succeed! As they collapse, the billionaires will pick up their ‘’assets’’. At the same time, the middle class people who have money in the bank, as well as shares in those businesses, stocks and bonds, are about to lose everything.

Remarkably enough, our current situation was anticipated by Marx and Engels. In the Communist Manifesto, they state: ‘’Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: bourgeois and proletariat.’’ 

As for the American working class, it may come as a complete surprise, to learn that Lenin had the utmost respect for revolutionary Americans! In fact, he wrote a letter to American workers, on August 22, 1918, less that a year after the Great Russian October Socialist Revolution. I have decided to reproduce parts of it here:

‘’The history of modern, civilized America opened with one of those great, really liberating, really revolutionary wars of which there have been so few….That was the war American people waged against the British robbers who oppressed America and held her in colonial slavery….since then, bourgeois civilizations 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…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…. The American people have a revolutionary tradition that has been adopted by the best representatives of the American proletariat, who have repeatedly expressed their solidarity with us Bolsheviks….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 legitimate and necessary. 

‘’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….The revolution is developing in different countries in different forms and in different tempos (and it cannot be otherwise)….We are banking on the inevitability of the world revolution…and we know that revolutions are not made to order, or by agreement….and that before the world revolution breaks out, a number of separate revolutions may be defeated. …Slowly but surely the workers are adopting Communist, and Bolshevik tactics and 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)

The full letter is available on the internet, and all Americans, working class as well as middle class, are encouraged to read it.

Now to return to our current situation. The billionaires can no longer rule in the old way, that of the democratic republic, and have decided to change their method of rule. The new method of rule they have decided upon, is that of fascism, with Trump as the figurehead dictator. 

This begs the question: How can they be stopped?

The Communist Manifesto provides us with the answer: ‘’But not only has the bourgeoisie forged the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to wield those weapons -the modern working class -the proletarians.’’

Marx made it clear, that the proletariat is the class which is destined to overthrow the capitalist class of billionaires. No other class can manage this.  

Yet one major problem is that the working class, the proletariat, is not aware of itself as a class, with its own class interests. The conditions of life, of the working class, do not lead to that awareness. 

This gives rise to considerable confusion, within the class conflict, which I can compare only to a boxing match, in which one boxer is blind folded. Of course, in my imaginary boxing match, the proletariat is the one who is blind folded, while the capitalists, the billionaires, are not. 

As can be well imagined, the boxer who is blind folded strikes out in all directions, and on occasion, is able to land a lucky blow. By contrast, his opponent, who can see quite well, is able to land one blow after another. 

This is admittedly a gross oversimplification, but it serves to drive home the point that the proletariat is at a distinct disadvantage, as it is not class conscious. The level of awareness, of the proletariat, must be raised to the level of Scientific Socialists. 

This is to say that they must become aware -better yet, embrace!- the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. They must become aware that it is necessary to overthrow the ruling class of monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, and to smash the existing state apparatus, that which has been set up by the billionaires, as a means of crushing the working class. A new state apparatus must be set up, to crush the ‘’desperate and determined resistance of the billionaires’’, as they make every effort to ‘’restore their paradise lost’’. This new state apparatus is referred to as the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. 

Yet how are they to become aware of this? The revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin are taught -more accurately, distorted!- only in University. Very few working class people are able to attend University. The Communist Manifesto provides us with the answer:

‘’Entire sections of the ruling classes are, by the advance of industry, precipitated into the proletariat, or at least threatened in their conditions of existence. These also supply the proletariat with fresh elements of enlightenment and progress’’. 

I would suggest that this has been taking place for some considerable time now, and is accelerating. Recently, countless upper class people have been ruined, forced into bankruptcy and the ranks of the proletariat. They bring with them their awareness of the existence of classes, the class conflict, and the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin.   

I would further suggest that the class struggle is approaching open class warfare. Or as the Communist Manifesto states: 

‘’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’’. 

We are nearing the ‘’decisive hour’’. Not all members of the ‘’ruling class’’, the billionaires, are determined to establish a fascist republic! Some of them are opposed to this, with good reason! Under a state of fascism, even certain billionaires may be persecuted! Based on religious or ethnic backgrounds! It only makes sense for them -survival!- to ‘’cut themselves adrift’’, and ‘’join the revolutionary class’’, the proletariat. 

In conclusion, I can only suggest that American workers, and middle class intellectuals, honour the memory of Lenin, by living up to his every expectation. Follow in the footsteps of your revolutionary ancestors!

The most important thing now, the ‘’key link’’, is to raise the level of awareness of the proletariat, in preparation for revolution, and the subsequent Dictatorship of the Proletariat. All actions we take now, must be made, with that goal in mind. This calls for a ‘’multi pronged’’ approach, involving various methods, some of which are legal, as well as others, which are illegal. 

Use the judicial system! The very judicial system that the capitalists have set up to crush the lower classes, can be used against the capitalists! Experts on Constitutional law should challenge the Two Party System, on the grounds that it is Unconstitutional. It violates the Twelfth Amendment! A possible Supreme Court ruling, in our favour, can only be a bonus! The main thing is to expose the hypocrisy of the capitalist system. 

Also on the ‘’legal front’’, encourage one and all to join the two mainstream political parties, preferably as card carrying members. The leaders of those common people can then run for any and all political offices. The membership of any particular political party, or a third party, is a matter of no consequence. Just be sure not to run against any ‘’Member of The Squad’’, or any ‘’Bernie Bro’’.

Allow me to stress the fact that our goal is to raise the level of awareness of the proletariat, to prepare them for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. In the process of running for office, of trying to ‘’change the system from within’’, working people will learn that the state apparatus has been set up to support the billionaires. In this way, they will become more class conscious. 

Establish Councils and train the members for warfare! Arm and equip those workers! Prepare them for the insurrection! The more training they receive now, the more likely it is that the insurrection will not only succeed, but also be almost bloodless! As was the case of the Russian Great October Socialist Revolution!

Form a true Communist Party, Dictatorship of the Proletariat! This is a task for middle class intellectuals, perhaps with the assistance of advanced workers, as it is clearly beyond the ability of the proletariat.

Reach out to the less advanced workers, those who have been misled, generally referred to as ‘’MAGA’’ people! Prepare popular literature, and especially videos, for those workers! Whenever possible, have ‘’celebrities’’, especially young and beautiful ‘’Movie Stars’’, explain the class struggle, in terms they can understand. Such people listen to those Movie Stars! Be forceful! Bear in mind, that Americans ‘’admire the fighter mentality’’! Do not ‘’pull your punches’’! 

Above all else, remember that, as Lenin said, ‘’We are invincible, because the world proletarian revolution is invincible’’. 

The Supreme Court has just responded to the request of the Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, to ‘’expedite’’ the ruling on whether or not Trump has any immunity, concerning the alleged crimes he committed on January 6, 2021, at the time of the so called ‘’insurrection’’ in Washington. 

This is to say that Smith was trying to bypass the D.C. Court of Appeals. That Court is scheduled to hear ‘’oral arguments’’ on the matter, in early January. Regardless of the ruling, it will no doubt be appealed to the Supreme Court, so such a request is completely reasonable. 

The Supreme Court responded with a simple, one sentence statement of denial, without giving any reason. Chalk one up for Trump! He has succeeded in delaying that trial, yet again! Thanks to the Supreme Court, which is now being referred to as ‘’The Dancing Court’’! In the finest tradition of the bourgeois, they are once again, ‘’passing the buck’’. Not making any decisions! Or at least delaying any decisions! This is also referred to as ‘’kicking the can down the road’’!

The journalists, who work for the mainstream press, are resorting to ‘’verbal gymnastics’’, in an attempt to report the news, without offending those for whom they work, the billionaires. They are referring to this court case as a ‘’legal landmine’’, in a country that is ‘’deeply divided’’, involving a ‘’critical legal question’’, one which is ‘’so fraught with politics’’, to be decided by a ‘’deeply divided court’’. Hogwash!

The ‘’deeply divided country’’, to which they refer, is nothing other than a country divided by class conflict. It is now so fierce, it is approaching open class warfare! The working class, the proletariat, versus the monopoly capitalist class, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie! Further, the ‘’legal landmine’’ is not a ‘’critical legal question’’, nor is it ‘’fraught with politics’’. It is a matter of Constitutional law, to be decided upon by the Supreme Court! Whether or not that Court is also ‘’deeply divided’’, is not the issue! It is their duty! It is just that simple! 

The fact that the corruption, which is characteristic of all capitalist countries, has spread to all branches of the government, including the Supreme Court, does not change that fact.

Now this completely corrupt class of monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, are determined to establish a fascist society. They must be stopped! It is not reasonable to expect the corrupt state apparatus, which is in the service of the billionaires, to oppose the plans of those same billionaires, to establish a fascist society.

Yet outside the government, the opposition to this proposed state of fascism is broad and deep. With good reason! It is characteristic of fascists, to persecute certain minorities. This persecution may be based upon race, religion or ethnic background. Even great wealth may not save them! As well, anyone whom they perceive to be ‘’enemies’’, is ‘’fair game’’! ‘’Vermin’’! To be ‘’liquidated’’!

For that reason, an anti fascist coalition should not be strictly ‘’Leftist’’. It should include all of those who believe in a democratic republic. Such people may, or may not, be a member of one of the two mainstream political parties, Democratic or Republican. 

In the interest of preserving our democratic republic, it is necessary for those who consider themselves to be ‘’Leftists’’, including anarchists, socialists, democratic socialists, independent socialists and Communists, among others, to work with those who are considered to be ‘’Ultra Right Wing’’. 

As for those who consider themselves to be ‘’Ultra Left Wing’’, and object to working with such disagreeable people, may I suggest that there are times when such temporary alliances, with those who are highly unreliable, are necessary! According to Lenin! 

Truly, ‘’politics makes for strange bedfellows’’! Besides, bear in mind that they hate us, just as much as we hate them!

The only qualification, is that any Communist who works within such a coalition, must be free to express those Communist beliefs. That includes the necessity of Scientific Socialism, through revolution, and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Without such an understanding, any such coalition, is out of the question. 

This proposed coalition should take the form of a Society, one which is non profit, focused only on opposing fascism. It should have no opinion on any outside issues. It should neither support, nor oppose, any causes. The one and only goal, of that Society, should be that of opposition to fascism.

There are various ways to oppose fascism. One of these methods involves court challenges. One of those court challenges, which I am proposing, is considered to be ‘’forbidden’’! That is to challenge the  ‘’sacred’’, ‘’Two Party System’’! Sacred or not, it is Unconstitutional! 

It may well be objected, that the American Two Party System, is thought to be, ‘’at the heart of our democratic republic’’. That may well be. That is not the issue. At issue is the law. That law is referred to as the Constitution. 

It may further be objected, that I am not an expert on Constitutional law. True! Guilty as charged! I am not even a lawyer! I am merely expressing my opinion. Not that my opinion matters. The one and only opinion that matters, is the opinion of the Supreme Court! They have never expressed an opinion on this subject, because the Two Party System has never been challenged!

As I have mentioned in previous articles, the Twelfth Amendment lays out the procedure, to be followed, for all federal elections!I have deliberately stressed the word ‘’federal’’, as it is now the custom to refer to this as a ‘’presidential’’ election. It is not presidential. It is federal! As it is so important, I have chosen to reproduce it, in full:

Twelfth Amendment

The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;–the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;–The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. [And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.–]The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

Clearly, there is no mention of any ‘’Two Parties’’! Nor is there any mention of any ‘’Popular Vote’’, ‘’District’’, or ‘’Running Mate’’!

The argument can also be made that the states do not have the right to ‘’meddle’’ in any federal election. This is to say that forcing the Electors, by state law, to vote for a particular candidate for the Presidency, or of the Vice Presidency, of either the Republican Party, or of the Democratic Party, is Unconstitutional!

There is a reason that no federal election has ever been challenged in court. Because the experts on Constitutional law are well aware, that the Two Party System is Unconstitutional! They do not want to ‘’open that can of worms’’! To challenge the 2020 federal election, on the grounds that it did not follow the procedures laid out in the Constitution, would almost certainly result in the Supreme Court ruling in their favour. Effectively, such a ruling would establish the fact that Biden is a fraudulent President, and Harris is a fraudulent Vice President!

Such a Supreme Court decision would also mean that all federal elections, dating back to the days of the Civil War, were illegal! All of those Presidents, and Vice Presidents, were fraudulent! 

Further, it would also mean that the upcoming federal election of 2024, would have to follow the procedures laid out in the Constitution. No popular vote! Any such vote would be meaningless! Only the states can appoint Electors, and all state laws, requiring those Electors to vote for the candidates of a major political party, would be struck down as Unconstitutional! 

For that reason, it would not matter if Trump was the candidate of the Republican Party, or not. Each and every Elector would be able to vote for the individuals of their choice! Such individuals may, or may not, be the candidates of a particular party! As per the Constitution!

That is the anticipated result of such a Supreme Court challenge, to the Two Party System. Such a ruling, that the Two Party System is Unconstitutional, would ‘’throw a monkey wrench’’ into the plans of the billionaires, to set up a fascist society, with Trump as the dictator. 

May I suggest, to the most avidly ‘’Right Wing’’ anti fascist people, that our options are limited. We can stop the ruling class of billionaires, from setting up a fascist state, with Trump as the dictator, or we can do nothing. Doing nothing is not an option!

Bear in mind that Trump has made it clear that all of his opponents are vermin! To be placed in huge concentration camps! To start! Guess what happens to all such vermin after that! Expect a Second Holocaust! That is the plan of Trump!

As well, no doubt such an Anti Fascist Society will attract numerous professional people, including ’’celebrities’’. It is such celebrities, especially those who are seen as ‘’Movie Stars’’, who have great power! Spiritual power! Possibly far more than they realize! For reasons which defy any rational explanation, working people pay strict attention to anything they say! To such people, I say, use that power! To oppose Trump and the fascists!

My suggestion is that professional writers can prepare a script, to be read by those considered to be Movie Stars -the more popular and beautiful the better!- recorded in video form, and then placed on the internet. Better yet, a series of videos, written in a popular, entertaining manner. Watch how fast they go ‘’viral’’!

These videos do not have to be ‘’Leftist’’. They have to be anti fascist. We can expect their effect on the common people, to be immediate and dramatic. Watch how fast working class people abandon Trump and the fascists, and embrace the ‘’Movie Stars’’, along with a democratic republic!

Bear in mind that working class people are avid readers. They also pay strict attention to the news. So the videos should make reference to current events, while being presented in an entertaining manner, without being condescending. 

The success of these videos, will further enhance the careers of all involved in their production. 

By contrast, the success of Trump and the fascists, is not to be considered.