Author: Gerald Mcisaac

The midterm elections are over, so that the public is relieved of the burden of listening to the constant political ads. At least for the moment. Yet it is very likely that the campaign for the next federal election, that  of 2024, will begin very soon.

If nothing else, this midterm election has confirmed, that which everyone knew. The country is deeply divided!

Before the election, the Democrats controlled the presidency, as President Biden is a Democrat. They also had a ”razor thin” majority in both ”Houses of Congress”, that of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Now that the midterm elections are over, it is still not clear which Party will control either House of Congress, as not all of the votes have been counted. It is clear that the ”razor thin” majority will continue. Yet the Republicans may establish a majority, or ”take control”, of one, or both, Houses of Congress. That remains to be seen. We may not know for another month.

From our viewpoint, that of Communists, the final outcome is of little consequence, as both mainstream political parties, Democrat and Republican, serve the same class. That is the class of monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie. They do not serve the class of ”common people”, the working class, the wage earners, the proletariat. For that matter, they do not serve the small business owner, the middle class, the petty bourgeois.

I mention this for the sake of those who are just now becoming politically active, those who have recently ”woken up”. Welcome, my Brothers and Sisters, my Comrades!

I will also mention that I write these articles with the ”little guy” in mind, the proletariat and the lower strata of the petty bourgeois. These are a few of the technical terms with which working people must become familiar. If we are not aware of these terms, the monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, will use our lack of awareness against us.

The press is reporting that voter turn out was exceptionally high, especially for a ”midterm election”. This is excellent, as it indicates that countless people are politically active, taking an interest in their lives. In fact, it is characteristic of a revolutionary situation.

The journalists have also done a fine job of documenting that which concerns the voters. Without doubt, it is the ”economy” which ”tops the list”. This is to say that people are having a difficult time ”making ends meet”. The ”cost of living” has gone ”through the roof”, and is continuing to rise, quite dramatically. In fact, inflation is at a forty year high.

As a result of this, common people are living ”paycheck to paycheck”. They are hard pressed to feed their families. Many are relying heavily on canned food. Others are not so ”fortunate”.  They are simply going hungry!
During the campaign, the Republican Party hammered the Democratic Party on various issues, especially that  of the ”economy”, including ”high inflation”. In response, the Democratic Party harped on the issue of ”democracy”.

The journalists were openly wondering if the Democrats were trying to lose the election! After all, the voters were concerned with inflation, crime, immigration and abortion, and the Democrats remained silent on these issues! Instead, the Democrats kept repeating the threat to democracy!

As I have documented, in a different article, that democracy is nothing other than a method of class rule, there is no point in repeating it here.

I should add, by way of explantation, that I pay strict attention to that which the most successful journalists report. They do a rather fine job of documenting the facts. They listen to that which people say. On the other hand, I pay no attention to their analysis. After all, they are in the employ of the capitalists. It is in their best interests to ”slant the news” in favour of the billionaires. For that reason, their conclusions are frequently in direct contradiction of the facts.

The fact is that the Democrats are now ”caught between a rock and a hard place”. As the Party in power, they cannot blame it ”on the other guy”, as is their first impulse. Nor can they tell the truth, which is that inflation is characteristic of capitalism!

Capitalists, by whom I mean the billionaires, are ruled by greed! They worship money! Those who have billions want more billions, and those who have hundreds of billions, want thousands of billions! They want to be Trillionaires!

In their pursuit of the almighty dollar, they deliberately create shortages. With their control of whole industries, they can do this. Frequently, I might add, and to great effect!

The most visible example of this is the high price of fuel. So many motorists cannot help but notice this when ”filling up the tank”. Yet that which is not so noticeable, is the fact that this high price of fuel serves to raise the cost of almost everything else.

The truck drivers have an expression: ”If you bought it, we brought it”. The point being that the trucks do not ”run on love”. They run on fuel. The higher the price of fuel, the higher the cost of delivering these goods, the higher the cost of the product. This is referred to as the ”domino effect”.

Of course, the capitalists have succeeded in creating a shortage in various other industries, including that of food for babies. There is no limit to the depths to which the billionaires are capable of stooping! That includes the starvation of infants, in their quest for the Almighty Buck!

Incidentally, monopoly capitalism is referred to as imperialism. Truly, when Lenin stated that ”Imperialism, is Reaction, right down the line”, he was not joking!

Other issues, such as the fact that crime is out of control, as well as homelessness, immigration and abortion, are also ”part and parcel” of capitalism. As such, the Democrats have also chosen to remain silent.

It may be objected that Biden, as President, has one tool he can use, to ”tame inflation”, which is that of raising interest rates. In fact, that is a common misconception. The President does not have that authority! Neither does the Congress! The interest rates, and in fact control of the economy, is in the hands of the capitalists, the billionaires! They exercise this control through the Federal Reserve!

Most working people are familiar with the expression, ”He who controls the economy, controls the country”! There is some truth to this! It is more accurate to say that it is the class of people who control the economy, control the country! In our case, it is the monopoly capitalist class, the class of billionaires, the bourgeoisie, who have control of the economy. The working class, the proletariat, as well as the middle class, the petty bourgeois, have nothing to say about this!
As most common people are not aware of the existence of classes, I have chosen to use italics and repetition as a means of stressing this importance. It may help to think of this as being the first step on the road to class consciousness, to Revolution, to Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. But then, I only say that because it is true.

This brings me to that which is commonly referred to as ”High Tech”. The capitalists have used that to great effect. Among other things, they have found it to be quite handy, when spying on us.

One good turn deserves another! The capitalists have also created personal computers and the Internet! Lo and Behold, we can use these most useful inventions against the capitalists! Most common people have computers, of one sort or another, or at least have access to them. For those of us who are in our declining years, the younger generation is a great source of assistance. After all, what are grandchildren for?

With that in mind, I turned to the Internet, to determine the role of ”the Fed”, as it is called. I stumbled upon this article, and was planning to document the key points. But then, as we have the technology, I decided to copy the whole thing. Behold:

It is now late October, and the ‘’countdown’’ is taking place, as the journalists are counting the days to the 2022 ‘’midterm elections’’, of November 8.

These elections are referred to as ‘’midterm’’, because they take place in the middle of the four year term of the presidency. The last presidential election was in 2020, and the next one is scheduled for 2024. 

There are only two mainstream political parties in the country, Republican and Democratic. The Republican Party is frequently referred to as the ‘’GOP’’, or Grand Old Party.

As well, Trump coined the slogan of Make America Great Again, or MAGA. He has a considerable following, to this day.

The Democratic Party won the presidency in 2020, so that Biden is now president. 

The country also has a Congress, in the form of the House of Representatives, and a Senate. The House has 435 members, and each Member serves a two year term, so that all House Members are up for election. The Senate has 100 Members, and each Senator serves a six year term. One third of the Senators run for election, every two years. This year, thirty five Senate seats are being contested.

As a result of the 2020 election, the Democratic Party was able to secure a ‘’razor thin’’ majority, in both ‘’Houses of Congress’’. In the House of Representatives, the Democrats have ten more Members than the Republicans, while in the Senate, it is evenly split, 48-50, with two ‘’Independent Senators’’, who generally vote with the Democrats. Yet as the Vice President is the President of the Senate, and also a Democrat, she is able to cast the ‘’tie breaking vote’’.

The ‘’political pundits’’, or ‘’election watchers’’, are deeply concerned with the possible outcome of the forth coming midterm election. They take great delight in stating that during the midterm elections, the ‘’Party in power’’ generally loses some seats in Congress. If that happens this election, then the ‘’Republicans will seize control of both Houses of Congress’’. 

They further predict that, if that happens, the government will be effectively ‘’deadlocked’’.
Certain of the journalists are starting to sound more like ‘’doomsday prophets’’, rather than journalists. In referring to the GOP candidates who embrace MAGA, they are using such expressions as ‘’a five alarm fire for democracy’’, that their anticipated election will be the ‘’beginning of the end of American democracy’’. They are also afraid that the ‘’midterms could slip into chaos’’!

Their reference to ‘’slipping into chaos’’ reveals the real reason for their concern.  They are afraid that the ‘’midterms’’ could lead to full scale civil war! The Second American Revolution!

Incidentally, I tend to pay attention to the facts that the more progressive journalists state, rather than their opinions. They are generally able to accurately gauge the degree of discontent of the public.

The more progressive journalists are concerned that, across the country, there are 300 GOP candidates, who ‘’think that the 20-20 presidential election was stolen.’’ This is to say that they are supporters of Trump, ‘MAGA people’’, those who think that Trump is the true president! The fear is that if enough of them are elected to political office, there is ‘’no telling what could happen’’! Their fears are well grounded!

It is likely that the journalists are including the candidates for governors of various states, within that 300 number. 

In particular, the journalists are focused on the gubernatorial election in the state of Arizona. The ‘’GOP’’ candidate is a lady by the name of Kari Lake. In all fairness, she is young and attractive, or ‘’easy on the eyes’’, to put it in popular terms. The journalists describe her in somewhat different terms.

As far as they are concerned, she is ‘’Donald Trump in Heels’’, the ‘’most dangerous candidate in America’’, a ‘’threat to our democracy’’, a possible 2024 ‘’running mate to Trump’’. It is safe to say that the journalists are not a ‘’member of her fan club!’’

They go on to say that she is ‘’smart and savvy’’, a ‘’performer’’, ‘’uniquely dangerous’’, has ‘’charisma’’, has adopted a ‘’cynical but successful strategy’’. Allegedly a former democrat, and supporter of Obama, they maintain that she ‘’switched sides, when it was convenient to do so’’.

They point out the fact that Kari Lake was formerly a ‘’tv anchor’’, so that she is comfortable in front of a camera. Her harshest critics also maintain that she is able to ‘’read the room’’, able to ‘’take the temperature’’ and gauge the ‘’anti media sentiment’’. Clearly, the journalists are accusing her of being not only beautiful, but also brilliant! Beauty and brains, a rare combination!

In her own words, ‘’People do not trust elections since 2000.’’ She is right about that! She is also aware that people ‘’do not trust the media’’! That too is true! For that reason, she has turned against the media! Even though she was recently part of that media! She has turned against her own people!

Such people are referred to as ‘’opportunists’’, which is to say that they are completely devoid of principle. They are strictly ‘’one way’’, their way, out for themselves. They have no sense of loyalty, prepared to do ‘’whatever it takes’’ to ‘’get to the top’’. No wonder the journalists are so afraid of her!

There is a fine chance that Kari Lake will soon be elected governor of the state of Arizona. When asked if she is prepared to accept the result of the election, she allegedly stated that she is fully prepared to accept the election results, ‘’as long as I win’’. Spoken like a true follower of Trump!

Yet the journalists are also concerned with the fact that, in two other states, there are also ‘’MAGA’’ candidates for the office of governor. No doubt they are concerned that this may constitute a trend.

The journalists are accusing those MAGA candidates of being fascists! That is a strong accusation! The journalists are afraid that if enough of them are elected to office, it will mean the ‘’end of democracy’’!

For the sake of all those who have just recently become politically active, I will mention that fascism is defined as a ‘’Far right, authoritarian, ultra nationalistic political ideology and movement’’.

Bear in mind that the opinions of the journalists, are just that, personal opinions, and are not based on any scientific belief. It is important to place the current political situation in correct scientific context, rather than in the opinions of various people.

From a scientific viewpoint, it is more accurate to describe these MAGA people as reactionaries. By definition, such a person, ‘’holds political views that favour a return to the status quo, the previous political state of society, which that person believes possessed positive characteristics absent from contemporary society.’’

With that in mind, we can state that early capitalism was competitive, and possessed certain progressive characteristics. That all changed dramatically, around the beginning of the twentieth century, when capitalism reached the stage of monopoly, referred to as ‘’imperialism’’.

It was Lenin who conducted a scientific investigation of imperialism. That investigation is included in his excellent article, Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism. HIs conclusions can be summarized as follows: ‘’Imperialism, which means the partition of the world and the exploitation of other countries besides China, which means high monopoly profits for a handful of very rich countries, creates the possibility of corrupting the upper stratum of the proletariat, and thereby fosters, gives form to, and strengthens opportunism.’’ He goes on to say that ‘’the political features of imperialism are reaction all along the line’’. (my italics)

Without doubt, the opportunists must be fought. That includes the leaders of the MAGA movement, those who are the strongest supporters of Trump. As well, the ‘’upper stratum of the proletariat’’, those who have been ‘’corrupted’’ by capitalism, which is to say those who have accepted the bribes of the capitalists, must be opposed. That does not include the vast majority of working people, many of whom have embraced the MAGA ideology.

We must be careful to distinguish between the MAGA leaders, as opposed to their followers, the broad mass of common people, the ‘’rank and file’’.

The revolutionary motion, which is currently sweeping the country, has succeeded in rousing a great many people to political activity. Those who were formerly apathetic, are now ‘’waking up’’, as they phrase it, and questioning everything they have been told, all their lives. Excellent!

True, many of these people are now being misled, so that they have embraced the lies of the MAGA people. These lies include the ‘’invasion of America at the southern border’’! As if immigrants are the problem! They most certainly are not! The capitalists are the problem! Now it is a matter of making working people aware of that!

With that in mind, may I suggest we face the fact that the MAGA people claim that the 20-20 presidential election was fraudulent. They insist that Trump really won the election, that he is the true president.

They have a point! The 20-20 presidential election was fraudulent, but not for the reasons that they state. It was fraudulent because it was Unconstitutional! As I have covered that in a previous article, I will not go into that here. 

The journalists are further convinced that the state of Nevada is ‘’Ground Zero’’ for this upcoming revolt. Strangely enough, they give no reason for this belief.

They maintain that there are ‘’forty four counties in fifteen states’’ which may well elect ‘’Election Deniers’’, those who are convinced that Trump is the true president. If elected, they could well ‘’replace local government leaders’’ and ‘’throw out the election results’’!

In other words, they could deny that Biden is president! They could further recognize Trump as president! In fifteen states, no less! That is the very definition of Revolution! 

The journalists consider this to be a ‘’threat to democracy’’! They are so right! It is a threat to the democracy of the capitalists! 

As we live under capitalism, it is the capitalists who rule! The monopoly capitalists! The imperialists! The billionaires! These are members of a class of people referred to as the bourgeoisie!

By contrast, we have a class of people who work for wages, working class people, referred to as proletarians. The democracy of the capitalists, referred to as ‘’bourgeois democracy’’, is nothing other than a dictatorship, over the proletariat.

It must be explained to working people that democracy is a method of class rule! It is not majority rule!

As we live under capitalism, it is the class of capitalists who are in charge! It is democracy for the billionaires, but a dictatorship over the working people, the proletariat!

As for those who are skeptical, may I suggest that you wake up! Watch the news! Almost everyone, even the government officials, admit that Trump is guilty of countless crimes. Yet there is no mention of charging him! Trump is a billionaire! Trump can do what he wants! And he does! They all do! Trump is not exceptional! Trump is typical! The laws do not apply to billionaires! 

Lenin covers this supremely well in his excellent article, State and Revolution. It is up to the working class, the Proletariat, to overthrow the capitalists, smash the existing state machine, that which has been set up to crush the working class people, and set up a new state apparatus, to crush the capitalists, under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

The capitalists have reason to be concerned. The official ‘’approval rating’’ for Biden is now at 44 percent. Inflation has ‘’sky rocketed’’, so that the cost of living has ‘’gone through the roof’’. Even the International Monetary Fund, the IMF, is warning that the ‘’worst is yet to come’’. They are predicting a ‘’global recession!’’. As yet, they dare not use the dreaded ‘’D word’’, that of Depression. 

Of even more concern to the capitalists, is the fact that ever more working people are becoming politically active. In various states, early voting is already taking place, and a ‘’record turnout’’ is being reported. This is an indication that working people are no longer apathetic.

The journalists are also reporting that ‘’the public no longer trusts any election results’’. Worse, ‘’the public no longer trusts the media’’! With good reason, I might add! The journalists are in the service of the capitalists! The capitalists have every reason to be worried!

It is not just in America that people are in revolutionary motion. In Britain, the latest Prime Minister was in power a mere six weeks, before being forced to step down. In Iran, there are massive protests. Most of the highly industrialized countries of Europe are in turmoil. The anti war movement is raging in Russia. Inflation is causing the standard of living, of all working people, to drop dramatically. The world wide ‘’recession’’, as predicted by the IMF, is about to intensify the suffering of all common people. 

This is another way of saying that the situation is revolutionary, especially in highly industrialized countries, around the world. Working people are simply not about to tolerate much more from capitalism. 

As soon as all, or even most, of the highly industrialized countries overthrow the capitalists, and establish socialism, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, then indeed that will give rise to that which Lenin predicted:

World Socialist Republic 

Donald Trump maintains that the previous presidential election, that of 20-20, was ‘’stolen’’, that he really won the election, that he is the true president. He has a considerable following, among the working people. For that reason, and not because we are supporters of Trump, we must examine the election.

The fact of the matter is that two lawyers, Rudy Guilliani and Sydney Sweeney, demonstrated the ease with which elections can be falsified. Their demonstration was quite impressive, so that it is entirely possible that they spoke from experience. It was quite valuable, as it served to educate the working people. They made the point that there are numerous ways to ‘’fix’’ any election. The use of ‘’High Tech’’, in which the voting machines are programmed to give the desired results, is merely the latest invention of voter fraud. Also possibly the easiest.

It is significant that the journalists are not denying any of the allegations the two lawyers have made, concerning the ease with which elections are falsified. Nor are they admitting this! They are merely subjecting them to personal attacks, in an attempt to discredit them.

From what we can best gather, Guilliani and Sweeney were arguing that the election was ‘’fixed’’, so that Biden won the election through voter fraud. The implication is that Trump really won the election, is the true president. We will argue that even though the election was indeed fraudulent, that does not mean that Trump is the true president.

The current situation is rather strange, in that the monopoly capitalists, billionaires one and all, technically referred to as the bourgeoisie, are the class of people in charge, running the country. Even though Trump is ‘’one of their own’’, a fellow billionaire, they consider him to be a ‘’loose cannon’’, too dangerous, unpredictable, and has to go. Elections be damned! 

Of course the billionaires own all the major news outlets, so that the journalists work for them. Make no mistake, the journalists ‘’dance to their tune’’! For that reason, the news outlets are most viciously attacking Guilliani and Sweeney. 

They are constantly referring to the suggestion that Trump won the 20-20 presidential election, as ‘’The Big Lie’’! Perhaps they are of the opinion that if they repeat this often enough, everyone will believe it.

Such is hardly the case! In fact, ‘’times have changed’’, and changed quite dramatically. The members of the public, the common people, are not fools. On the contrary, they are intelligent and cultured, perfectly capable of thinking for themselves. Just because the journalists insist that ‘’Trump lost the election’’, does not make it true!

This is not to say that Trump won the election! In fact, the 20-20 presidential election was completely fraudulent! Not because the popular vote was falsified, but because the election was Unconstitutional!

For that reason, Biden did not win the election! But then, neither did Trump! America does not have a President!

The fact of the matter is that countless working people still have faith in the parliamentary system. That belief must be respected! They are going to have to learn, from experience, that the Communists are correct.

No doubt all ‘’common people’’, as that is the way in which working people  refer to themselves, are interested in the presidential vote. What better way to raise their level of awareness, than by becoming involved in the demand that all presidential elections abide by the Constitution?

It is also a fact that the most passionate supporters of Trump, the ‘’MAGA’’ people, in that MAGA stands for Make America Great Again, are also demanding a ‘’free and fair election’’. These people too, have a great many followers, among the common people.

By some happy coincidence, it just so happens that the people on the Left are also demanding the same thing! To think that the Left and the ‘’Ultra Right’’, by whom I of course mean the MAGA people, can agree on anything! 

Yet it is true! For that reason, I am about to suggest a course of action which most people may find to be strange, if not outright insane! My suggestion is that those of us who are on the ‘’Left’’, call for an alliance with those on the ‘’Right’’, including those who are most ‘’Right Wing’’, the strongest supporters of Trump, the MAGA people! 

The purpose of this proposed -temporary!- alliance is to establish, in court, that the 20-20 presidential election was indeed fraudulent. Not because the popular vote was ‘’rigged’’, but because the election was Unconstitutional!

The procedure of electing the President, as well as the Vice President, is set out, quite clearly, in the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution! This procedure was not followed! For that reason, the 20-20 presidential election was fraudulent!  

In the interests of democracy, which I consider to be of the utmost importance, I have decided to give the Twelfth Amendment, in its entirety:

‘’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.’’

(Please note that the italics are not mine, but were copied from the internet.)

As most readers are not ‘’Philadelphia Lawyers’’, it is understandable that this is difficult to comprehend. Yet even a casual reading reveals that there is no mention of a popular vote! There is no mention of any District! There is no mention of any political party! There is no mention of any ‘’running mate’’! It is the Electors who vote for the President! Those same Electors vote for the Vice President! On separate ballots, no less! The Electors have the right to vote for any individual, for the office of President! They also have the right to vote for any individual, for the office of Vice President! Such individuals need not be members of any political party! The two need not be members of the same political party! The states have no right to force the Electors to vote for any particular candidates!

May I suggest that the people on the Left, whether they consider themselves Socialists, Social Democrats, Communists, Marxists or simply concerned citizens, put aside their differences, and come together. I am sure that this is an issue upon which we can all agree.

I can also suggest that we invite the people on the Right to assist us. That includes those who are considered to be ‘’Ultra Right Wing’’, the MAGA people. After all, they too want a free and fair election.

The idea is to hire a lawyer, with the plan to argue, preferably before the Supreme Court, that the last presidential election was fraudulent. That election violated the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution. May I suggest the following, as possible arguments:

‘’All Electors were forced, by state law, to cast their votes based upon the ‘’popular vote’’. This is a violation of The Twelfth Amendment, as it makes no mention of any popular vote

‘’All Electors were forced, by state law, to vote for the candidates of one particular Party, in violation of the Twelfth Amendment, which makes no mention of any Party

‘’All Electors were forced, by state law, to cast one ballot for ‘’a team’’, of a particular Party, for President and his ‘’running mate’’ for Vice President. This is a violation of the Twelfth Amendment, which requires two ‘’distinct ballots’’, one for President and one for Vice President

‘’The states have no right to pass any laws which infringe upon the right of the Electors to cast a ballot for the President, and to cast a separate ballot for the Vice President, each of their choice, as that is a violation of the Twelfth Amendment

‘’The District of Columbia also sent Electors to vote for the President and the Vice President. As that District is not a state, this too is a violation of the Twelfth Amendment’’

It is very likely that a lawyer, an expert on Constitutional law, could ‘’polish’’ those arguments, to make them sound more ‘’scholarly’’. 

Yet when faced with those arguments, it is entirely possible that the Supreme Court will indeed ‘’strike down’’ all state laws which infringe upon the right of Electors to vote for a President, and to vote for a Vice President, of their choice. At the same time, they could well rule that the election was fraudulent, so that Biden is not president. But then neither is Trump!

In such a case, it is very likely that the Supreme Court would refer the matter to Congress, either the House of Representatives or the Senate.

It would also mean that all the presidents who were elected, in violation of the Twelfth Amendment, very likely going back to the days of the Civil War, were illegitimate presidents. That includes Trump!

It is quite likely that the small army of lawyers hired by Trump, ‘’legal eagles’’, one and all, have chosen not to challenge the last presidential election, based upon Constitutional Law, for that reason. They may not want to ‘’open that can of worms’’! 

Yet the fact remains that there is one issue upon which the people on the Left, can agree with the people on the Right, including the MAGA people. We can agree that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent.

It is for that reason, I suggest the Left ‘’join forces’’ with the Right, for the purpose of challenging the 2020 presidential election, in court. Truly, ‘’politics makes for strange bedfellows’’! 

No doubt there are many people on the ‘’Left’’ who are dead set against working with people on the ‘’Right’’, especially the MAGA people. Such an attitude is incorrect. 

To such people, may I suggest that you ‘’look at the big picture’’. 

There are countless people, honest, hard working, law abiding, tax paying Americans, who still have faith in the parliamentary system. These citizens must be respected! It is up to us to support them in their struggle for free and fair elections! In this way, they will learn, from experience, that the system is set up to serve the capitalists, the bourgeoisie. The capitalists are currently in charge, and fully intend to remain in charge!

If the MAGA people accept an alliance, based on the terms of challenging the legality of the last presidential election, on Constitutional grounds, then we stand to gain. In that case, we can meet their people, including the ‘’rank and file’’, and let them see that ‘’we have no horns’’! We can also provide them with revolutionary literature, possibly in digital form.

Not all of the followers of MAGA, among the common people, are very advanced. For such working people, it may be necessary to provide them with literature which is quite popular, so that they can understand it. At the same time, make sure it is not vulgar.

On the other hand, if the MAGA leaders reject such an alliance, we shall gain even more. After all, the rank and file of the MAGA movement are well aware that their leaders maintain that the election was ‘’stolen’’. Fine! Now is the opportunity to go to court to prove this! Legally! If the MAGA leaders ‘’pass it up’’, then the rank and file will see them as the liars and hypocrites that they are!

Either way, with or without the support of the MAGA leaders, we can challenge the legality of the last presidential election. This is bound to attract the attention of a great many working people. Once we have their attention, we can explain to them the fundamental principles of Communism, including that of Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

In summary, it is entirely possible that the Supreme Court will strike down all state laws that interfere in a federal presidential election. That could have the effect of declaring the last presidential election ‘’null and void’’! That would prove the MAGA people are right, the election was fraudulent. That would also prove that Biden is a phoney president! It would even prove that he is not even President! America may not even have a President!

The important thing to bear in mind, is that our goal is to raise the level of awareness of the working class. Whether or not the Supreme Court rules in our favour, is a matter of indifference. In the process of challenging the 2020 presidential election, the working people will receive a valuable education.

In fact, there are a great many people who are questioning all elections, and not just the presidential elections. Properly so, I might add. As these people are politically active, many of them are among the most advanced members of the working class. For that reason, I am writing this article with them in mind. Let it never be said that I am defending Donald Trump!

On the contrary, it is my opinion that the level of awareness of the most advanced members of the working class, the proletariat, must be raised to a higher level. They must become aware -and embrace!- the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. The terms Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, must become common place.

We will know that we are successful in this, when working people are openly discussing Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

On February 24, 2022, Russia invaded the neighbouring country of Ukraine. No doubt, the plan was to annex Ukraine, as part of the plan to restore the Russian Empire. After all, at the time of the Czars, Ukraine had been part of that Empire. Yet ”right from the get go”, things did not work out quite the way the Russian military had planned. The Ukrainians had other ideas!

As is well known, the Russian advance was stopped outside the capital city of Kiev, and then pushed back to the East. This came as a great surprise to the Russians. The military analysts of the world were equally surprised, as the invading armies of the Russians had an overwhelming advantage in artillery, aircraft and armour. Clearly, the military analysts have overlooked a few things.

There is a popular expression to the effect that ”the military is busy preparing for the last war”. True enough! The Russian invasion of Ukraine is very similar to the Nazi invasion of western Europe in 1939. At that time, their military doctrine of ”blitzkrieg”, or ”lightning war”, was put to the test. It succeeded, beyond all expectations! The highly industrialized countries of Western Europe were defeated, within a matter of months!

As the lead Nazi and the Chancellor of Germany, Hitler was deeply impressed by those early victories. In fact, he was so impressed that he ”broke his own rule”, that of ”never fighting a war on two fronts”, and decided to invade the then socialist Soviet Union.

I mention the fact that the Soviet Union was, at that time, a socialist country, for the benefit of those who are just now becoming politically active. The capitalists have since managed to restore capitalism in Russia. More on that subject, later on in this article.

The current Russian aristocracy, or billionaires, or ”oligarchs”, technically referred to as the bourgeoisie, have succeeded in setting themselves up as the ”new Czars”. Led by President Putin, they are determined to restore the Russian Empire, to ”Make Russia Great Again”! As Ukraine was once part of that Empire, it is only natural for them to assume that they have the ”God Given Right” to ”reclaim” that country! Hence the invasion!

Yet even the Nazis were not so stupid as to invade the Soviet Union during ”spring break”! That is a reference to the fact that the ground freezes solid during the winter, but thaws out in the spring. At that time, the ground becomes wet and soft, so that vehicles become ”bogged down”, as soon as they leave the paved roads. For that reason, the Nazis decided to wait until the ground dried out. Their invasion of the Soviet Union took place on June 22, 1941.

By contrast, Putin decided to ignore this fundamental fact of Nature, and in a display of mind boggling stupidity, sent his troops into battle at the beginning of spring break!

The Ukrainians, led by President Zalensky, were quick to use this to their advantage. The columns of Russian vehicles, which had planned to capture Kiev, were first immobilized on the paved roads. The lead vehicles were destroyed, and as the following vehicles were unable to turn around, they became ”sitting ducks”!

The Ukrainians then ”took the bull by the horns”, and mobilized for full scale war! Most of the men who were of military age joined the military. A great many women took over the jobs which had been vacated. Others also joined the military. Most of the civilians were evacuated from the war zone, to the west and relative safety, or even out of the country. The factories were ”geared up” for war production.

As well, a great many industrialized countries chose to send ”technologically advanced” weapons to Ukraine, and to provide training for select troops. These weapons include portable rocket launchers and drones, as well as long range, accurate artillery pieces.

In particular, the rocket launchers have managed to neutralize the overwhelming advantage of Russian aircraft and armour. They have proven to be most effective in ”knocking out” armoured vehicles, including tanks, otherwise known as ”panzers”, as well as aircraft, both helicopters and fixed wing.

They have found that the use of drones, in order to precisely locate the position of the enemy armour, has proven to be most useful. Used in combination with the portable rocket launchers, the results have been ”most satisfactory”!

Of course, the drones are also useful, in and of themselves. They are able to carry explosives, if only light weight, but capable of doing considerable damage.

This is the very thing the military planners have overlooked! ”High Tech”! During the Second World War, various armies had portable rocket launchers. For example, the German Panzer Faust was considered the best. Yet all were ”short range” weapons, as well as not terribly accurate, so that their effectiveness was limited. Not so with the modern rocket launchers!

With modern technology, the rockets now have a considerably longer range, and can hit with ”pinpoint precision”!

During the first few months of the war, the Ukrainian High Command was able to remove most civilians to positions of relative safety. As well, they were able to repulse the enemy attack on the capital, to ”gear up for war”, and to neutralize the Russian advantage in armour and aircraft. Yet the Russians still had a vast superiority in artillery.

Now that superiority has also been neutralized, due to the donation of a great many long range, high calibre, accurate artillery pieces, from other countries. The Ukrainians are using these weapons to great effect! Their drones are helping them to locate the enemy ”storage sites”, the place where the ammunition is kept, as well as the ”communications centres”. Then the long range artillery is destroying these key installations.

That has enabled the Ukrainians to go ”on the offensive”! The latest reports are that they are scoring some major victories, regaining a great deal of territory, formerly occupied by the Russians.

Now Putin has responded by ”annexing” parts of Eastern Ukraine, so that he claims they are now ”part of Russia”. He has also declared a ”partial mobilization”, so that an additional 300,000 troops are being drafted into the Russian army.

As I write this, it is early October, and the press is reporting that some of those ”conscripts” have already appeared in Ukraine! These ”soldiers” have little or no training! They are little more than ”cannon fodder!” Has Putin gone mad?

This month also marks the beginning of the ”wet season”, in that we can expect heavy rain. Of course that too makes the ground soft, so that vehicles cannot travel off paved roads. This is to the advantage of the defender.

Further, the press is reporting that the Kerch Bridge, a 19 kilometre, or 12 mile bridge, which connects the Russian mainland to the Crimean Peninsula, has just been severely damaged. This event is of exceptional importance, for several reasons.

The Crimea was occupied by Russia in 2014. Then in 2018, the Kerch Bridge was built, at great expense, of course. Since the Russian invasion of February, it has served as a vital ”artery”, a ”key supply route” for the war in Ukraine. This is referred to as ”logistics”, as the bridge provides a railroad as well as a highway. Vast amounts of military hardware were being transported by rail, far more so than by road. Now that flow has been reduced to a ”trickle”!

As a consequence, the Russian army, located in southern Ukraine, is in serious trouble. The vast amount of equipment, which the army needs, is now in short supply.

Strangely enough, the Ukrainians have yet to take credit for the destruction of the Kerch Bridge. It is possible that a group of ”Partisans”, which is to say Ukrainian ”freedom fighters”, working ”behind enemy lines” in the Crimea, were able to blow up that bridge. They may not have even been in contact with the Ukrainian High Command!

Whatever the cause of the destruction, it is also a major psychological victory for the Ukrainians! It does wonders for Ukrainian morale!

That is not the only ”headache” for Putin.

The opposition of the Russian people, to the war in Ukraine, is now similar to the opposition of the American people, at the time of the war in Viet Nam. Protests are now taking place, across the country. The Russian authorities are responding with considerable brutality, beating and arresting protesters. As well, a great many young men are running to other countries, in order to avoid military conscription. This is commonly referred to as ”draft dogging”.

The working people of Russia must be supported in their opposition to the invasion of Ukraine. This is to say that their level of consciousness must be raised. They must be made aware of the fact that the capitalists have returned to power, that Russia is no longer a socialist country. It is now an imperialist country. It is once again necessary to overthrow the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, and crush them, under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Russia has a fine Revolutionary history, of which they can be most proud! Russia is the home of Lenin! Russia is the country which overthrew the Czars! Russian is the country which first gave birth to Soviets! Russia is the country which overthrew the capitalists! Russia is the country which established the first socialist republic! Russia is the country which established the first Dictatorship of the Proletariat! Russia is the country which did this once, and Russia is the country which will do this again!

At the time of the rule of the Czars, all revolutionary literature was banned. The common people had no democratic rights. Now that Putin and his henchmen are in charge, a similar situation has arisen. Once again, common people have no democratic rights, and all Marxist literature is also banned. So how to raise the level of awareness of the Russian working class? In much the same way that Lenin managed!

At the time of the Czars, Lenin was living in exile. Yet that did not stop him from smuggling in Revolutionary literature, with great difficulty, I might add. This served to raise the level of awareness of the Russian people, preparing them for the revolution. Now it is time for us to do the same thing! The only difference is that now, we can use the internet, the ”electronic word”!

We can do our part to assist the next Russian Revolution, by emailing, in the Russian language, of course, Revolutionary literature, especially that of Lenin.

Bear in mind that it is not necessary to get in touch with each and every citizen of Russia. Working people have the utmost respect for the more advanced members of their class. They listen closely to such people. It is of the utmost importance that we focus on such workers. As Lenin stated, ”It is only the class conscious minority that can direct and lead the broad masses of the workers”.

For that reason, it is our duty, the duty of Communists, to raise the level of awareness of the most advanced strata of the proletariat of Russia. They must become ”class conscious”, aware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. This includes the necessity of overthrowing the capitalists and smashing the existing state apparatus. As well, the terms Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, must become common place expressions.

Of course, it is not just the proletariat of Russia that requires revolutionary literature. The proletariat of other countries, especially those that are highly industrialized, also need to become class conscious. They too, need to become aware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. The most advanced strata of the workers in all such countries must become true Communists, fighting for Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Of course, the best way to do this, is with a proper Communist Party, within each country.

Yet as we live in something other than an ideal world -no kidding, you say!- that is not always possibe. In a country such as Russia, in which common people have almost no democratic rights, any attempt to create such a Communist Party would likely ”backfire”. That is a fact to which Lenin could testify!

It was Lenin who gathered together a number of middle class intellectual Marxists, in 1895, and formed the Russian League of Struggle For the Emancipation of the Working Class. All were promptly thrown into prison!

At that time, the Russian Secret Police had informers ”everywhere”! These people, commonly referred to as ”rats”, are only too anxious to ”rat out” their fellow citizens! Their only concern is with having their ”palms greased”! Capitalism gives rise to such human filth! No doubt, Putin and his cronies are using such people to identify revolutionaries, so that they too can be thrown in jail.

Lenin learned from his mistake, and it is hoped the current Russian Communists will also learn.

That is the ”bad news”, if you will excuse the tired old worn out joke. The ”good news”, so to speak, is that it is not necessary to form an official Russian Communist Party. As Lenin explained, writing after the Russian Revolution, ”….a minority that will fight resolutely for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, and will educate the masses of the workers along these lines, then in reality this minority is nothing but a Party”.

Without doubt, those who are aware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin, and are prepared to ”fight resolutely for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat”, are definitely in a ”minority”. They are very likely middle class, petty bourgeois, or perhaps former members of that class. It matters not. As long as they are prepared to ”educate the masses of the workers along these lines”, and raise the most advanced members of the proletariat, to the level of ”conscious people”, Communists, then there is no need to go through the formality of forming a proper Communist Party. They already comprise such a Party!

The previous Russian Revolutions have revealed the fact that during a Revolution, or even immediately before a Revolution, Soviets appear! This just happens, quite spontaneously! Bear in mind that the Russian word Soviet means Council, in English.

It is reasonable to assume that these Soviets have once again taken shape, in Russia. No doubt, the most advanced workers are involved in these Soviets. After all, it is the most advanced workers who tend to be politically active.

Previous revolutionary experience has also revealed that these Soviets tend to spread, to various parts of the population. This is to say that we can expect to see Soviets of Workers, as well as that of Peasants, and of the Military. The Soviets in the Russian Military may take the shape of Soldiers or Sailors, possibly both. The name they choose is entirely up to them. It is our duty to raise their level of awareness, as they are destined to play a key role in the approaching Revolution.

These Soviets first appeared in Russia, in 1905, at the time of the first Russian Revolution. They were also crushed in 1907, at the time of the crushing of the that Revolution. They reappeared at the time of the Second Russian Revolution, of 1917.

The difference was that the Soviets of 1917 Russia, were far stronger than the Soviets of 1905. This was a factor in removing the Russian nobility from power. Bear in mind that the Romanovs had been in power for three hundred years! Yet in February of 1917, within the space of a few short days, Czar Nicholas was forced to ”kiss the throne good bye”!

With the nobility out of the way, the Russian capitalists were ”in their glory”! This gave rise to the democratic republic, which is the ”ideal political shell for capitalism”, according to Lenin. A fellow by the name of Kerensky was placed in charge, so that it became known as the ”Kerensky Regime”.

The fact of the matter is that the abolishment of the Russian monarchy was a step in the right direction, but only a step. The common people of Russia were no longer being crushed by the nobility and the capitalists. At that point, they were merely being crushed by the capitalists! Not a vast improvement!

As previously mentioned, at that time, Lenin was in exile. Yet he managed to return to Russia, in April of 1917. To this day, bourgeois scholars wonder why the Russian authorities did not arrest him, as soon as he stepped off the train, in the capital of Saint Petersburg.

The answer is quite simple: Because they could not! The Soviets were that powerful!

The secret police of Kerensky certainly wanted to arrest Lenin. The ”spirit was willing, but the flesh was weak”, so to speak. Within the space of a very short time, the Soviets became strong enough to challenge the authority of the Kerensky government!

This is to stress upon people the Power of Soviets! They are not to be under estimated! In fact, shortly after their appearance in Russia in 1917, they were able to overthrow the government and establish political power! Focus on the Soviets!

Now to return to the subject of the war in Ukraine.

It is significant that Putin is now calling up his military Reserves. He was forced into this, as the Russian Army, in Ukraine, which formerly consisted of youngsters, has been effectively destroyed. Older men are now being mobilized, and they are by no means as reliable as an army of the younger generation. On the contrary, they are more open to the propaganda of scientific socialism.

No doubt, various Soviets have also appeared among these military personnel. Now it is a matter of identifying these Soviets and sending them the revolutionary literature. In the Russian language, and in electronic form, of course! That is so much easier than getting it to them in paper copies!

The Russian military personnel in Ukraine are not the enemy, just as the Russian common people are not the enemy. The enemy is the Russian imperialists. It is the duty of Communists to make that clear in all our propaganda.

The current situation is similar to that which existed during the First World War. At that time, revolutionary motion was taking place in various industrialized countries. That too, gave rise to Soviets, or Councils.

At such a time, as Lenin pointed out, ”As long as it was (and inasmuch as it still is) a question of winning the proletariat’s vanguard over to the side of Communism, priority went and still goes to propaganda work”.

Now is the time of ”winning the proletariat’s vanguard over to the side of Communism”, of doing ”propaganda work”! It is not just the working people of Russia that have to be ”won over” to the ”side of Communism”! That applies to all working people, especially the proletariat of the most highly industrialized countries.

Without doubt, they have already appeared spontaneously, ”popped up”, in America, so it is clear that we are close to a Revolution. After all, it is only during, or immediately before a revolution, that these Soviets appear.

It was only after the Great October Socialist Russian Revolution of 1917, that a ”seismic shift” appeared in the ranks of the most advanced workers. This is to say that within the most highly industrialized countries of the world, the most advanced strata of the workers grasped the importance of Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

There is a popular expression, to the effect that ”seeing is believing”! The most advanced strata of the population, of the most highly industrialized countries of the world, were convinced that the Communists were right! They became convinced of this, because they could see the results! The first Russian Soviet Socialist Republic, the first Dictatorship of the Proletariat, persuaded them! The Communists had it right, all along!

At that point, in 1920, Lenin referred to the possibility of a ”World Socialist Republic”. There was a reason for his optimism!

Immediately after the end of the First World War, several highly industrialized countries were on the brink of revolution. For example, a very powerful Council of Action appeared in Britain. This Council was nothing other than a Soviet.

Britain was not the only industrialized country which was close to revolution. Most notably, Germany and America were singled out by Lenin. He was convinced that if the socialist revolution took place in all, or even several of the highly industrialized countries of the world, then a World Socialist Republic would take shape.

Yet revolution in those countries clearly did not happen, at least not yet! So what went wrong?

Naturally, the bourgeois scholars assure us that Lenin was mistaken, that his theories have been proven to be false. They further state that the Berlin Wall was the ”last bastion of Communism”, and with the fall of that Wall in 1989, the world was made ”safe for capitalism”! Nonsense!

Of course, this is not too surprising, as that is precisely what the capitalists want to believe. After all, it is in the best interest of these bourgeois scholars, to tell their ”lords and masters” precisely that which they want to hear! Rest assured, the billionaires want to believe that they have nothing to fear from Communism! Dream on!

In fact, the World Socialist Revolution was -temporarily!- sidetracked, by acts of murder and bribery!

In Germany, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg were murdered. In Russia, Lenin was murdered. Great revolutionaries murdered! As well, countless other revolutionaries were murdered, and not just in Germany and Russia! These acts of murder are still taking place, and not just to Communists! In America, in 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered, even though he was a pacifist.

This is to drive home the point that it is necessary to take reasonable precautions, especially in the most highly industrialized countries. Those countries which have embraced imperialism, will not hesitate to murder any such leaders! In such cases, it may be best to ”keep a low profile”. May I suggest posting articles on the internet, but anonymously. Send these articles to select members of the working class, especially members of Soviets, or Councils. Make the government agents ”earn their pay”! If the sex offenders and pedophiles can escape detection, then so can we!

The use of bribery is even more widespread than the use of murder. The fact of the matter is that the billionaires tend to keep a million or two on hand, in the form of cash, for ”incidentals”. As far as they are concerned, this is mere ”spare change”! It has proven to be most useful in ”pacifying” those who ”cause trouble”! A little ”palm greasing” goes a long ways!

The fact is that working people need leaders. Proper leaders! People of principle! People who are not about to accept the bribes of the capitalists! People who are not about to be intimidated! Leaders who are going to tell common people the unvarnished truth, no matter how unpleasant! Leaders who are going to raise their level of awareness, to prepare them for Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat! Communist leaders!

Previous revolutions, especially in the countries of Russia and China, can teach us a great deal. In particular, the mistakes of previous great revolutionary leaders can be most instructive.

In the Soviet Union, the capitalists were able to return to power, after the death of Stalin. For that reason, the Chinese Communists conducted a criticism of Stalin. They concluded that Stalin was a great revolutionary, but committed a number of mistakes. It was these mistakes that allowed the Russian capitalists to return to power.

Years later, after the death of Mao, a similar situation took place. There too, the Chinese capitalists were also able to return to power. This was due to the fact that Mao was a great revolutionary, but he too made some serious mistakes. This allowed the Chinese capitalists to return to power.

Both Russia and China are now, once again, capitalist countries. As I have covered this in a previous article, there is no need to repeat it here.

We must learn from the mistakes of previous great Revolutionaries! Everyone is human, so that we all make mistakes! As long as the mistakes are minor, and quickly corrected, that is not a problem, according to Lenin. Yet when the mistakes are major, and not corrected, then it becomes a huge problem!

Yet it was not just Stalin and Mao who made several serious mistakes. Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, it is the Members of the Central Committee, of the Communist Party, who are the closest adviser to the leader of the country. It is their duty to point out such mistakes! This never happened! In each case, the members of the Central Committee were negligent in their duty!

To return to the current situation, that of the Ukraine War, it is now that Putin has issued ”thinly veiled threats”, to the effect that he may use nuclear weapons. In response to this, President Biden has issued his own ”proclamation” as to the possibility of ”nuclear armageddon”.

I should mention, for the sake of those who are just now becoming politically active, that weapons which are variously referred to as atomic, nuclear or thermonuclear, are basically the same. They are explosive devices which release a blast of extremely high heat, as well as radiation. For the purposes of this article, I refer to them as ”nuclear” weapons. In popular jargon, these weapons are referred to as ”nukes”.

Without doubt, these weapons create terrible destruction. The experience of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are absolute proof of that! Which is not to say that it will mean the ”end of the world”! The devastation of those two Japanese cities was terrible, partly because most of the homes were made of wood. By contrast, the buildings in most modern cities are made of brick and steel. A nuclear explosion in such a city – God Forbid! – would not create a firestorm. The damage would be confined to a rather small part of the city.

There are a great many scientists who are of a different opinion. They are a most vocal bunch, and have been preaching ”Armageddon” for many years.

I will also mention that ”Armageddon” is a biblical reference to the ”place where the last battle between good and evil will be fought”.

These ”Doomsday Prophets” first got together in 1947, and created a ”Doomsday Clock”! It has been maintained ever since, by the ”Atomic Scientists”, and this Clock is a ”symbol that represents the likelihood of a man made global catastrophe”. They further state that ”the Clock is a metaphor for threats to humanity from unchecked scientific and technological advances”.

They have a point! The key work here is ”unchecked”! The monopoly capitalists, those who are technically referred to as ”imperialists”, are in charge, and they are fully prepared to use any and all means to maintain that power! The First World War has proven that, beyond any shadow of a doubt! As well, they have used nuclear weapons before, in the Second World War, and they will not hesitate to use them again!

In fact, during the American war in Viet Nam, President Johnson and his military advisers gave serious consideration to the use of such a weapon. It was at the time of the battle of Khe Sahn, in 1968, and the American base was in danger of being over run. They considered ”nuking” the Vietnamese! So what stopped them?

Historians would have us believe that ”cooler heads prevailed”! By this stilted expression, they mean that American imperialists thought that the use of nuclear weapons would be a mistake. They were afraid that it would give rise to ”wide spread protests”, not only in America, but around the world! They refer to this as ”public opinion” being ”opposed to the use of nuclear weapons”!

The decision, of the American imperialists, to not use nuclear weapons, was not based upon any moral ground, but strictly because of the fact that the common people were dead set against it! The American imperialists were afraid that the use of such a weapon would trigger a rebellion, a revolution, and that they would be ”removed from power”!

This has not stopped a great many journalists from speculating on the ”possibility” that ”Putin is serious”, that he may in fact ”resort to nuclear weapons”. Of course he is serious! Putin is a typical imperialist! The only question is, will the strength of the common people stop him?

Yet the Doomsday Prophets make no allowance for this!

The Doomsday Clock is currently set at ”one hundred seconds to midnight”. Those scientists would have us believe that at ”midnight”, which is to say that at the time of ”nuclear war”, the ”vast majority of humans would die from burns, radiation and starvation. Human civilization would collapse! Survivors would eke out an existence on a devastated, barren landscape.”

Now that sounds pretty grim! Fortunately, it is simply not true! In fact, it is a pack of lies! The use of nuclear weapons is not to be confused with the ”End Time”, or ”Armageddon”!

The scientists are presenting nuclear weapons as something which has the power of God! Such is not the case! If they have their way, we will all be kneeling down, worshiping ”The Bomb”! That is not about to happen!

That begs the question: Why do they want us to worship ”The Bomb”?

Marx provided us with the answer, when he stated that ”religion is the opium of the people”, used for ”the exploitation and stupefaction of the working class”.

The scientists, especially those who are responsible for the Doomsday Clock, are dedicated, hard working servants of the capitalists. They are trying to demoralize the working class, the common people. If they have their way, we will all be apathetic, taking no interest in politics, as the world will soon ”come to an end”! What is the point of doing anything, if the world has no tomorrow?

Precisely what the capitalists want!

Perhaps working people can take inspiration from the Ukrainian people. They are now calmly facing the possibility that the Russians may use nuclear weapons against them, and discussing the various ways to deal with the resulting heat and radiation. The thought of ”surrender” is not even being mentioned!

The Ukrainians deserve a great deal of credit! Throughout the course of the war, they have consistently out maneuvered the Russian invaders! They refuse to be intimidated by the threat of nuclear weapons!

In conclusion, we can now say that it is necessary for the working class to ”recover some lost ground”, to put it in military terms. The level of awareness of the working class must be, once again, raised to a higher level. The most advanced strata of the proletariat, the vanguard, must embrace Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. This calls for a great deal of propaganda work. Communists must send Marxist literature, through the internet, to everyone, especially the most advanced workers. They must also become active in Soviets, Councils, as the most advanced workers will be found there. Take part in protests and demonstrations. Carry signs and posters which call for Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Harass the capitalists at their corporate and banking headquarters, as well as at their homes, restaurants and resorts. Give them no peace! Attract the press! Take videos and post them on the internet! With any luck, they may go ”viral”!

Then too, so many common people are of the opinion that ”seeing is believing”. Such people should be encouraged, whenever possible, to become politically active. They should run for Parliament and Congress, for example. In countries such as Britain and America, such actions are allowed. Flood the various capitals with ”Leftist” people! In this way, they will learn, from their own experience, that the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, are in charge, and fully intend to remain in charge!

Of course, in other countries, where citizens are allowed almost no democratic rights, such as Russia, that is out of the question. In such cases, propaganda is the rule, along with deception and secrecy.

In this way, we can best support the people of Ukraine in their war with the Russian imperialists. At the same time, we are supporting the people of Russia, in their preparation to overthrow their capitalists. Further, as soon as Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat is established in several of the most highly industrialized countries, then we can once again consider that which Lenin foresaw, a World Socialist Republic.

Bear in mind that the Soviet Union did not immediately take shape. At first, after the Great October Socialist Revolution, it was just the Russian Soviet Socialist Republic. The various republics which had been crushed by the Czars, the Russian Romanovs, were granted independence. The people in those republics had no reason to trust any Russian! It took some time for those people to become convinced that Lenin and the Communists really meant what they said.

It was not until 1922 that four independent Soviet Socialist Republics came together, to form the Soviet Union. This was the Union of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic, the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, and the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. By the end of World War 2, the Soviet Union had expanded to include fifteen Republics.

It is important to note that each Republic was Socialist, and formed of Soviets. We can expect these Soviets, or Councils, to also take control of state power, here in the Western World. At that time, we can also expect to see that which Lenin foresaw in 1920:

World Socialist Republic!

Recently, it has been brought to my attention that over the years, numerous civilizations have come into existence. They all prospered, became ever more powerful, rose to a peak, and then fell into decline. In the western world, the Roman Empire is supremely well known. As the Roman Empire lasted for hundreds of years, people in those days were fond of saying that ”Rome is Eternal”.

Of course, nothing is ”eternal”, and the fate of the Roman Empire is well known. It went the ‘’way of all empires’’, so to speak. 

Yet that does not mean that our civilization must ‘’follow suit’’, as so many ”philosophers” maintain. There is a huge difference between our our civilization and all previous civilizations. Our civilization is the one and only civilization to have experienced an industrial revolution!

Historians are agreed that the industrial revolution was the greatest thing to happen to humanity, since the domestication of plants and animals. In this, they are absolutely correct!

With that in mind, perhaps a little explanation is in order.

The industrial revolution first took place in Great Britain between the years of 1720 to 1760, for reasons which do not directly concern us. From there, it spread to other parts of the world, and in fact, is still spreading.

At that time, in Britain, there existed a small, rather unimportant class of people, merchants who lived in town and referred to themselves as ‘’burghers’’. They regarded the industrial revolution as an ‘’opportunity’’, a chance to become supremely wealthy. It was merely a matter of investing their money in factories, mill, mines and other ‘’means of production’’, as well as railroads, shipping lines and other ‘’means of transportation’’. In that way, the ‘’raw materials’’ can be taken to the ‘’point of production’’, and the ‘’finished product’’ can be ‘’taken to market’’. They also invested in banks and other ‘’financial institutions’’. 

I believe those are the correct technical expressions of the capitalists.

As a result of this, the class of burghers became transformed into a class of capitalists. The name burgher became altered to that of ‘’bourgeois’’. Those who became supremely rich became known as the ‘’bourgeoisie’’. 

Incidentally, some readers may find these technical terms to be tiresome, and perhaps they are. Yet it is important to become familiar with them, as otherwise, our class enemies will use our lack of knowledge against us. 

For the purposes of this article, I am mainly concerned with the fact that the industrial revolution gave birth to two different classes, both revolutionary.

As Marx and Engels stated, quite clearly, in the Communist Manifesto:

‘’The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

‘’Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either of a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or of the common ruin of the contending classes.

‘’In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome, we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations’’. 

It is clear that in the case of the Roman Empire, for example, the ‘’fight’’ of the ‘’contending classes’’ ended in the ‘’common ruin of the contending classes’’, as there was no ‘’revolutionary reconstitution of society at large’’. In short, the Roman Empire rose to a peak, fell into decline, and eventually rotted away. This is characteristic of most civilization. 

It is also clear that our civilization has also passed its peak, and is now in decline. Our roads, bridges, railways and transportation network, as well as our buildings, that which is usually referred to as the ‘’super structure’’, is in desperate need of repair. Our books of science, which are taught in schools, are nothing less than  a farce. The existence of classes, at least here in North America, is denied. Yet that does not mean that ‘’we are doomed!’’

The Communist Manifesto makes it quite clear that, as a result of the industrial revolution, radical changes were established in society:

‘’The modern bourgeois society that has sprung from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.

‘’Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses however, this one 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.’’

This is especially true now, as around the beginning of the twentieth century, capitalism reached the stage of monopoly, technically referred to as ‘’imperialism’’. 

The monopoly capitalists, the imperialists, are determined to crush any competition, no matter how insignificant. As a result of this, the small time capitalist, which is to say the middle class small business owner or ‘’petty bourgeois’’, has largely been wiped out, at least in the most highly industrialized countries of the world. The same is true of the family farmers, otherwise known as ‘’peasants’’. 

That brings us to the ‘’intellectuals and salaried personnel’’ of the capitalists. Lenin says that they ‘’correspond to the middle class’’. They tend to lead lives of ‘’quiet desperation’’, waiting for the ‘’axe to fall’’. Regardless of how well they do their job, they are well aware of the fact that the capitalist may fire them at any time, for any reason, or for no reason. ‘’Because they can’’!

The Communist Manifesto goes on to state: 

‘’Modern industry has established the world market…and in proportion as industry, commerce, navigation, railways extended, in the same proportion the bourgeoisie developed, increased its capital, and pushed into the background every class handed down from the middle ages.

‘’We see, therefore, how the modern bourgeoisie is itself the product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in the modes of production and exchange.

‘’Each step in the development of the bourgeoisie was accompanied by a corresponding political advance of that class….

‘’The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.

‘’The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his ‘natural superiors’, and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man, than naked self interest, than callous ‘cash payment’. It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy waters of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom – free trade. In one word, for exploitation,

‘’The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage labourers.

‘’The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation…It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former exoduses of nations and crusades

‘’The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society…

‘’The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country…

‘’The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization…

‘’The bourgeoisie.. has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together…

‘’We see then: the means of production and of exchange, on whose foundation the bourgeoisie built itself up, were generated in feudal society…the feudal relations of property became no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces…they were burst asunder…

‘’Into their place stepped free competition, accompanied by a social and political constitution adapted to it, and by the economical and political sway of the bourgeois class.’’

I have chosen to quote the Communist Manifesto at length, partly because it is so important, and partly to drive home the point that at one time, the bourgeoisie played a most revolutionary role!

Such is no longer the case! As soon as capitalism reached the stage of monopoly, which is technically referred to as ‘’imperialism’’, the monopoly capitalists, the bourgeoisie, became completely counter revolutionary, referred to as ‘’reactionary’’. Lenin documented this supremely well in his book, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.

These days, with the bourgeoisie so completely reactionary, we tend to lose sight of the fact that, at first, the capitalists were truly revolutionary! But to paraphrase an old and tired expression, ’’that was then and this is now’’!

The Communist Manifesto goes into this in more detail:

‘’Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange and of property, a society which has conjured up such gigantic means of production and exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. …It is enough to mention the commercial crises that by their periodical return put on trial, each time more threateningly, the existence of the entire bourgeois society…an epidemic of over production…’’

The industrial revolution made possible, for the first time in history, the chance to provide for the well being of countless people. Everyone has a chance to benefit from this vast surplus! But as long as the monopoly capitalists are in charge, that is not about to happen! It would never occur to them to provide for the common good! They are completely focused on their ‘’bottom line’’, which is the very thing they call their sacred profit!

Yet under capitalism, a ‘’vast surplus’’ gives rise to ‘’an epidemic of over production’’, a ‘’crisis in capitalism’’. It threatens their profits! As a result, even less is available for the common people!

That is the ‘’one side of the coin’’, so to speak. Scientific socialists may say that this is but ‘’one aspect of the contradiction’’. The ‘’flip side of the coin’’, or the ‘’other aspect to the contradiction’’, is the fact which is stated quite clearly in the Communist Manifesto:

‘’The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled feudalism to the ground are now turned against the bourgeoisie itself

‘’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.’’

The fact of the matter is that as capitalism becomes ever more highly developed, so too does the modern working class, the proletariat. At least here in North America, and probably in most other highly developed countries, the proletariat is quite highly cultured. The vast majority are literate, and either own computers, or some other ‘’digital device’’, or at least have access to them. This makes it ever so much easier to raise their level of awareness. The capitalists have thoughtfully created the Internet. The least we can do is express our appreciation, by using it against them!

Those who have been paying even the slightest bit of attention to the news lately, are no doubt struck by the fact that women are now playing a vital role in the international working class movement. 

In particular, a young woman in Iran was arrested and killed, by the ‘’morality police’’, for the crime of ‘’not wearing her hijab properly’’. Bear in mind that a ‘’hijab’’ is a head scarf. The protests against such violent repression have spread across Iran, to all cities and towns, and even to remote areas. Videos from Iran show women dancing in the streets, waving their head scarfs, burning those same scarfs and cutting their hair. These protests have spread to other countries, so that women in various countries are supporting their sisters in Iran.

The Communist Manifesto helps to explain this also:

‘’The more modern industry becomes developed, the more is the labour of men superseded by that of women.’’

As ever more women become drawn into the work force, becoming proletarians, the more they become revolutionary. After all, it is the proletariat which is the most revolutionary class! 

This infusion of ‘’fresh blood’’ into the international working class movement is most welcome! No doubt many of these women have been ‘’watching from the sidelines’’, so to speak, perhaps ‘’marvelling at the stupidity of so many men’’. Or so I have been told!

Now those same women, those whom were formerly confined to the drudgery of housework, have ‘’come into the work force’’, have become proletarians, and therefore revolutionary, and are making their voices heard.

The fact is that a great many working men are supremely well aware that most of our leaders, including our union leaders, are ‘’in the pocket of the capitalists’’. Yet by and large, most men tolerate this. 

By contrast, the women whom have recently entered the workforce, are not at all inclined to accept the ‘’status quo’’. Now that they are workers, proletarians, they are becoming ever more politically active. They are a most welcome edition to the working class, a ‘’breath of fresh air’’! 

Without doubt, here in North America, they are in the forefront of the working class movement.

This brings us to the current political situation, in which capitalism is definitely in a state of crisis. The capitalists can no longer rule in the old way, and the working people are no longer content to be ruled in the old way. Lenin refers to this as a revolutionary situation.

Inflation is spiralling out of control, to the point that even the bourgeois economists are worried of a ‘’repeat of the Weimar Republic’’, in which the value of the German mark depreciated, to the point that it was worthless. Those same economists are also openly speaking of a recession, while as yet, avoiding any mention of a depression. 

Gun violence is so common, it is not even documented, unless four or more people are shot. Drug overdoses are now epidemic. The criminal gangs are in control of many neighbourhoods. Local police are reduced to documenting the crimes. A great many police officers are retiring or simply quitting. Very few people are even applying to join any police force, as ‘’no one wants to become a cop’’.  There are calls for ‘’martial law’’ in some cities. It has been suggested that only the National Guard can ‘’restore law and order’’. 

From the viewpoint of the capitalists, the ‘’cherry on the cake’’, is the fact that ‘’one of their own’’, by whom they of course mean the former president, Donald Trump, is causing them untold grief! They just do not know what to do with that boy! He just will not shut up!

Recently, the New York Attorney General, NYAG, issued a two hundred page report, the product of a three year investigation. In that report, she alleges that Trump, along with three of his adult children, over a ten year period, submitted ‘’fraudulent and misleading financial statements’’, on a regular basis. Accordingly, she is suing them for a minimum of 250 million dollars. Yet there are no criminal charges! The government is afraid of Trump!

In a very clear cut example of ‘’passing the buck’’, she mentioned that the case had been referred to ‘’federal prosecutors and the Internal Revenue Service’’, the IRS, for ‘’possible federal crimes’’. By implication, all of those allegedly ‘’fraudulent and misleading financial statements’’ failed to break any state laws! Not likely! She just dares not charge Trump! 

If any working class person was suspected of committing such acts, especially that of tax evasion, then that person would likely never again see the light of day! Without doubt, there is a double standard here! 

In fact, a federal judge admitted as much. The opinion she gave is a masterpiece of legal jibberish: ‘’Based on the nature of this action, the principles of equity require the Court to consider the specific context at issue, and that consideration is inherently impacted by the position formerly held by the Plaintiff’’.

Now to put this in plain and simple English, she refers to herself as the Court, and to Trump as the Plaintiff. Her reference to her ‘’consideration’’ of the ‘’specific context at issue’’ which is ‘’inherently impacted by the position formerly held’’ by Trump, is a reference to the fact that he was formerly the president. For that reason, she favoured Trump! So much for the courts being fair and impartial! 

Clearly, the laws do not apply to the capitalists, only to the working people. No kidding! Yet this federal judge broke the ‘’unwritten law’’ of all courts: Do not admit this!

Most members of the working class are well aware of the fact that the laws do not apply to the wealthy. Those who have enough money, are quite capable of buying themselves out of any criminal charges. There is no need to explain this to them! 

By contrast, there is an urgent need to explain to the working people, the existence of classes. They must be advised, in terms they can understand, that those of us who work for wages are working class, ‘’proletarians’’. The billionaires, monopoly capitalists, those who own almost everything of any great value, are members of a different class, that of the ”bourgeoisie”. Further, we are class enemies. The capitalists must be overthrown, the existing state apparatus destroyed, and the capitalists must be crushed, under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Yet who is to bring them this awareness?

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.

‘’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 bourgeoise goes over to the proletariat, and in particular, a portion of the bourgeois ideologists, who have raises themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole.

‘’Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a really revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of modern industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product.’’

As I write this, the capitalists do not know ‘’which way to jump’’. They are currently ‘’counting down the days’’ to the midterm elections. Perhaps they think that a new Congress will solve all their problems!

The Democrats are fretting over losing control of the House or the Senate, while at the same time worrying that Trump will once again run for president, in the next federal election, two years from now. As for the revolutionary motion, they think perhaps the best way to divert it is with their ‘’brainstorm’’ of ‘’30×30’’. This is what Biden refers to as setting a goal of ‘’conserving at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030’’. Naturally, he was careful to not specify precisely what he meant by ‘’conserve’’!

This was pointed out in an excellent article of National Geographic. They provide an example of a farmer, a small time capitalist, who was quite happy to cooperate, to create’’70 acres permanent wetlands’’, in the interests of conservation. Of course, that came with a government grant of ‘’$350,000!’’ At taxpayer expense, of course! As the farmer stated, ‘’it has to pencil out’’. By that rather strange expression, he meant that he was not about to sacrifice profit for wildlife. As long as the taxpayers are prepared to hand over money to small time capitalists, they in turn are happy to cooperate!

So much for the Democrats plan for ‘’conservation’’! 

The Republicans are also ‘’scratching their heads’’, trying to come up with something to counteract Trump and his ‘’Make American Great Again, or MAGA’’. It should be noted that the keystone of the MAGA policy is to hold immigrants responsible for the horrors of capitalism. 

The fact is that even the journalists, those faithful flunkies of the capitalists, are openly mentioning the possibility of civil war. It does not help that Trump recently issued a ‘’thinly veiled threat’’ to that effect. He made it quite clear that if he is charged, his followers are prepared to take up arms! 

The capitalists are taking him seriously! They are afraid of Trump! Each government agency is ‘’passing the buck’’! The state of New York is going after him for hundreds of millions which they say he owes them, while documenting countless instances of fraud and tax evasion, over the last ten years, but not filing charges!

It is clear that the capitalists are trying to discredit Trump, to expose him as a liar and fraud. That is by no means a ‘’tall order’’, as that is precisely the case! In other words, Trump is a typical capitalist! The more they expose Trump, the more they expose themselves!

The capitalists are trying to turn ‘’public opinion’’, as they phrase it, against Trump! Excellent! By a remarkable coincidence, we too are attempting to do the same thing! In this way, we can raise the level of awareness of the working class!

The capitalists are not about to face the fact – or are not capable of facing the fact? – that we are in the middle of a revolutionary situation. Yet even the journalists, those most devoted servants of the capitalists, now dare to mention this! 

True, capitalism has reached a state of crisis. That is a fact. It is also a fact that the system will not collapse upon itself! So for those who think that the capitalists cannot find a way out of this mess, think again! As long as the proletariat does nothing, the capitalists will manage!

It is a fundamental tenet of Marxism, that all reactionaries are the same! They must be destroyed! They are not about to simply ‘’fade away!’’ The capitalists are reactionaries, right to the very core of their being, and must be crushed!

It is the working class, the proletariat, and only the proletariat, that is up to this task. After all, it is only the proletariat that is the consistently revolutionary class. Yet that is not enough. Their level of awareness has to be raised. They need to be made aware of the existence of classes, of the conflict between the classes.  Above all, they must be made aware of the necessity of revolution and the subsequent Dictatorship of the Proletariat. 

Contrary to what the demagogues may say, working people need leaders. Proper leaders! The only proper leaders are scientific socialists, Marxists, Communists!

The fact of the matter is that all classes have leaders, and that includes the capitalists. At the moment, one of the leaders of the capitalists is a fellow by the name of Donald Trump! He has quite a following, among the working people! But then, Trump is a first class demagogue!

Such people are not to be under estimated! Demagogues are the worst enemies of the working class! They have quite a following, among the proletariat, especially with the less advanced!

The less advanced workers are not to be blamed for this! They are under the influence of those who peddle the lies of the capitalists! They have been listening to such lies all their lives! Who can blame them for believing those lies?

These working people need to be told the truth. Further, it must be expressed in terms which they can understand. This is to say that we must use popular language, not ‘’High English’’! Feel free to use sports metaphors, but under no circumstances resort to vulgarity! Our goal it to raise their level of awareness, not to personally sink to a lower level. Also, avoid the use of the word ‘’backward’’. They may think that we are calling them ‘’stupid’’.

There is no time to lose. The revolutionary motion is becoming ever stronger. Civil war could break out at any day. Now is the time to become active. Take part in the emerging Councils. Join the mainstream political parties, as card carrying members. Run for office. Flood Washington with Leftist people. Prepare for revolution. Train in the use of weapons of all sorts. Give the capitalists no rest! Harass them in their homes, businesses, restaurants and resorts! Carry signs and banners which call for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Council Power! 

Above all else, make every effort to raise the level of awareness of the proletariat. The working class must be made aware of itself as a class! 

We will know we are being successful when working people are openly discussing Council Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!