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Albania and the Flamingo Revolution

The Republic of Albania is a sovereign nation in the southwestern part of the Balkan Peninsula. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the east, and Greece to the south. It has a coastline along the Adriatica and Ionian Seas, both of which are part of the Mediterranean Sea. 

It is Sazan Island, along with one particular part of this coastline, which is currently the centre of a major controversy. That Island and coastline has, until very recently, been classified as a ‘’wildlife sanctuary’’, so that no industrial development was permitted. It is the nesting grounds for numerous species of migratory birds, including pink flamingoes. 

But then, Ivanka Trump, the daughter of the President, and her husband, Jared Kushner, visited the Island, and reportedly ‘’fell in love with it’’. In fact, they loved this ‘’pristine environment’’ so much, they decided to destroy it. To be replaced with an ‘’eco resort community’’, including hotels, apartments, villas and a marina, in the interests of being ‘’faithful and considerate of the environment’’.

At that time, there was one minor problem, which was quickly resolved. By law, no industrial development could take place, as it was a wildlife sanctuary. So Ivanka and Jared simply met with the Prime Minister of Albania, Edi Rama. At that informal, friendly ‘’social gathering’’, it is very likely that a little ‘’palm greasing’’ took place. The government of Albania immediately became ‘’sweetly reasonable’’, and all laws limiting industrial development, within those wildlife sanctuaries, became ‘’null and void’’. Problem solved.

Work crews were immediately sent into Sazan Island, complete with bulldozers, and set to work building a ‘’playground for the bourgeoisie’’, starting with barbed wire fences, presumably to keep out the ‘’undesirables’’, the ‘’ragtag and bobtail’’, the ‘’common people’’ of Albania, by whom I of course mean the workers and family farmers.

It is to the credit of the working people of Albania, that they immediately responded, by disrupting the construction work. The barbed wire fences were pushed over, and massive protests began all across the country, especially in the capital of Tirana. These protests have placed the common people of Albania, in the forefront of the international working class movement. For that reason, they deserve our unconditional support.

There are numerous videos available on the internet, concerning the Albanian protests. It is safe to say that almost all are made by ‘’Leftist’’ journalists, those who are at least sympathetic to the protesters. They generally provide a reasonably accurate description of the events taking place, including the size of the crowds, the posters and symbols on display, mainly in the form of flamingoes, and the demands that are being put forward.  

It is also safe to say that almost all of those same journalists are middle class, petty bourgeois, as their understanding of events, their analysis, is clouded by their middle class prejudices.Yet their analysis, even though faulty, is stated as facts. Many viewers, especially those who are new to the revolutionary movement, may confuse their faulty analysis with facts. 

For that reason, it calls for a little explanation. No doubt, a great many middle class readers will find this to be quite tiresome, a crashing bore, as they are already well aware of the revolutionary history. Yet for this I make no apologizes. After all, my main focus is on the working class, the proletariat, the ‘’only consistently revolutionary class’’, according to Lenin, or as is stated in the Communist Manifesto, ‘’the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands.’’

In my opinion, it is now quite clear that, in various countries of the world, and not just Albania, the situation is indeed revolutionary. I fully expect a proletarian revolution to break out and spread to numerous countries of the world. The reason I say this, is because of that which Lenin stated, in Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder:

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

I consider the preceding paragraph to be of supreme importance. I would love to see it in poster form, and placed on the walls of all advanced workers, as well as on the walls of all union halls. I would be the first to buy a copy.

It is a very accurate description of the events currently taking place, within various countries of the world. These ‘’governmental crises’’ are indeed ‘’drawing in the most backward masses into politics’’. The ‘’lower classes’’ are indeed ‘’demanding change’’, while the ‘’upper classes’’ can no longer rule in the old way. The situation is absolutely revolutionary, in so many countries of the world. Now it is a matter of raising the level of awareness of those who were ‘’hitherto apathetic’’, of bringing them ‘’up to speed’’.  

The people of Albania have a revolutionary history, of which they can be most proud. In 1946, the Party of Labour of Albania, the PPSh, led by Enver Hoxha, established the People’s Socialist Republic of Albania. 

The PPSh was a true Communist Party, one which called for Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. It was absolutely not revisionist. 

The death of Stalin, in 1953, was followed by the return to power of the Russian capitalists, led by the revisionists, the social chauvinists, those who are socialists in words, chauvinists in deeds. Great pressure was brought to bear, on all countries ‘’within the Russian orbit’’, to also adopt this revisionist dogma. It is to the credit of Albania that they ‘’resisted the temptation’’. They remained a true Scientific Socialist state. 

It is also a fact that, in 1949, the People’s Republic of China, the PRC, was created. Led by Mao Tse Tung, it too, was a true Scientific Socialist state. They joined the Albanians in resisting the Russian social chauvinists, until the death of Mao, in 1976. At that time, the Chinese revisionists were also able to restore capitalism in China. Yet the Albanian Scientific Socialists, refused to embrace the revisionist Marxism. For several years they stood alone, on the world stage, surrounded by capitalist countries. 

The death of Enver Hoxha, in 1985, led to his successor, Ramiz Alia, a man who was not up to the task. In 1991, the social chauvinists were also able to restore capitalism in the country of Albania.

As I have documented in previous articles, those formerly Scientific Socialist republics failed, due to mistakes that were made by the leaders. Those mistakes allowed the capitalists to return to power. To briefly summarize, the Chinese Communists conducted a proper criticism of Stalin, after his death, and concluded that he was a fine Marxist, but had made several serious mistakes. These mistakes allowed the Russian capitalists to return to power. In order to prevent a similar event from happening to China, they launched the Great Chinese Proletarian Cultural Revolution. 

Yet after the death of Mao, the Chinese capitalists were also able to return to power. This was due to the fact that the Chinese Communists also made a number of mistakes. The Cultural Revolution did not go far enough, as it was largely confined to culture. It did not penetrate deeply into science. The capitalists who were hiding in various fields of science, remained hidden, biding their time, waiting for the proper moment to strike. The death of Mao provided that opportunity. 

As well, the Chinese Communist Party was not properly purged, on a periodic basis, as was recommended by Lenin. Instead, Mao and other Party officials chose to ‘’patiently struggle’’ with Communist Party members, pointing out the error of their ways, including those who were high ranking, even within the Central Committee. It was a serious mistake. They should have been removed from the Party.

It is now our duty, that of Scientific Socialists, Communists, to learn from the experience of previous revolutionaries, from their successes, as well as their mistakes. Especially their mistakes! So that we do not repeat those same mistakes!

Allow me to stress the fact that, even after the approaching Revolution, after the existing state apparatus is smashed, and replaced with a new state apparatus, in the form of Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, classes will continue to exist! The multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, will continue to exist! They will not resign themselves to their fate! They will make every effort to ‘’restore their paradise lost’’! They will resort to every lie, deception, deceit, subterfuge, in an attempt to return to power! Just as they managed, in the Soviet Union, China and Albania! They are not to be under estimated! They will even pretend to be Communists, true Scientific Socialists, in order to infiltrate the Communist Party, insert their revisionist ideology, and mount a coup!

Lenin covers this supremely well, in his excellent article, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.

Now to return to the ‘’Flamingo Revolution’’, currently taking place in Albania. The working people of Albania have a great deal of experience, in fighting the capitalists. As I write this, there is a video, on the internet, showing the protesters ‘’vandalizing’’ the construction site. In fact, they are completely smashing it! Bravo, Albanians! It is a true Revolution, in the finest sense of the word. It merely lacks focus. The people taking part in that Revolution, have to be made aware that the capitalists have managed to return to power, and must be overthrown. 

It is the duty of Scientific Socialists, true Communists, to bring that awareness to the working people. For the most part, that means middle class intellectuals. No doubt, there are a few such people within Albania. 

Now for the benefit of those countless members of the working class, who are just now becoming politically active, as a result of the revolutionary movement, I should mention that the word Soviet is Russian, and means Council. It remains to be seen whether the word Soviet or the word Council will become common place in North America. Either way, these Councils almost always take shape, as a result of the revolutionary movement.

Also, those of us who are students of Marx and Lenin, tend to refer to ourselves as ‘’Scientific Socialists’’, or ‘’Communists’’, as a means of distinguishing ourselves from the utopian socialists, those who tend to think that socialism is merely a good idea.

Further, among the utopian socialists, we have to distinguish between those who are honest, merely misinformed, as opposed to those who are social chauvinists, revisionists, determined to distort and revise the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. The revisionists are the bitter enemies of the Scientific Socialists. They are determined to take over the existing state apparatus, at the time of the revolution, and set themselves up, as the new rulers.

I mention this in the spirit of true international, proletarian cooperation. Or as Marx stated, 

Workers of the World, Unite!

Scientific Socialism!

Soviet Power!

Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

An Appeal To Reason

As I write this, it is late May, 2026. The Republican Party, led by President Donald Trump, has a majority in both Houses of Congress, which is to say the House of Representatives, and the Senate. Yet the Senate recently passed a bill, which blocks the authority of Trump, to further prosecute the illegal war in the Middle East. Even though that war involves numerous countries, including Israel, Lebanon and various countries which are home to American military bases, the mainstream press persists in referring to it as the ‘’War with Iran’’.

As is standard procedure, that particular bill was then sent to the House of Representatives, as such a bill has to be passed by both Houses of Congress, before being sent to the President. At that point, the President has the option of either signing the bill into law, or vetoing the bill. Should he choose to veto the bill, then his veto can be overridden, by a two thirds vote of both Houses of Congress. At that point, the bill becomes law.

The House has yet to take a vote on that bill, for the very fine reason that the Speaker of the House, he who is commonly referred to as ‘’MAGA’’ Mike Johnson, ‘’dissolved’’ the House of Representatives, at least until some time in June. All Members of the House have been ‘’sent home’’, until a future date, ‘’yet to be determined’’.

The Speaker of the House is referred to as ‘’MAGA’’, for a reason. MAGA, or Make America Great Again, is the slogan of Donald Trump. And rest assured, Mike Johnson is one of the most ardent supporters of Donald Trump. Or to phrase it in more popular terms, he is widely considered to be ‘’in the pocket’’ of Donald Trump. He has well earned the nickname of ‘’MAGA’’!

This is not to say that Mike Johnson is completely stupid, as he most certainly is not. On the contrary, he is smart enough to realize that a vote on that bill would almost certainly pass the House, and be sent to President Trump. He is equally well aware that Trump would almost certainly veto the bill, which could well trigger another vote, in an effort to override that veto, perish forbid!

Even though such an ‘’override vote’’ would likely fail, the very fact of the vote taking place, would serve to ‘’embarrass’’ Donald Trump. He would stand more exposed! And rest assured, Donald Trump is not a man who embraces exposure! Praise and flattery are the ‘’way to his heart’’! His closest advisors, sycophants one and all, belly crawling boot lickers, can testify to that fact! 

The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is supremely well aware of this. He is equally well aware of the fact that any exposure of the true nature of Trump, can lead to most unpleasant consequences. The ‘’Wrath of Trump’’! Even if Johnson is not personally responsible, Trump can still be counted upon to ‘’throw him under the bus’’, if only ‘’because he can’’!

There is a reason that the vote on this bill, which limits the power of Trump to prosecute the war in the Middle East, passed the Senate, and will very likely pass in the House. It came about as a result of that which is commonly referred to as ‘’public pressure’’, which is to say the pressure, from the working people, against the Middle Eastern War. This movement, against the war, is part of a revolutionary movement against the ruling class of monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the imperialists, technically referred to as the bourgeoisie. It is certain to break out into open class warfare, a full scale Revolution, a Second American Revolution, very soon.

I have come to this conclusion, as I am a Scientific Socialist, a follower of Marx and Lenin, a true Communist. I also write in a popular manner, as I am mainly focused upon the common people, by whom I mean workers and family farmers, and especially the hourly employees, the proletariat. After all, it is the proletariat which is the class of people which is destined to overthrow the monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the imperialists, the bourgeoisie.

Yet even after the Revolution, classes will continue to exist. The existing state apparatus, which has been set up by the bourgeoisie, in order to crush the ‘’lower classes’’, will be smashed, at the time of the Revolution, and replaced with a different state apparatus. This new state apparatus is referred to as Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. It is necessary to crush the former ruling class of monopoly capitalists, as they make every effort, after the Revolution, to ‘’restore their paradise lost’’. 

This is well known to all Scientific Socialists, true Communists, as we carefully study the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. Political science is just that, a science, and must be pursued as a science. The experience of previous revolutions must be evaluated. We must learn from that experience, the failures as well as the successes. In this way, we are determined to avoid the mistakes of previous well meaning revolutionaries.

The two formerly socialist countries of the Soviet Union and China, provide us with instructive examples. In each case, the ruling classes of both countries were first overthrown, as the revolutionaries followed the correct procedures of Marx and Lenin. Yet the capitalists were able to return to power, as the leaders of the common people, fine Scientific Socialists, made certain mistakes. We have identified the mistakes of both Stalin and Mao, and are determined not to repeat those mistakes. As I have covered that extensively, in previous articles, there is no need to repeat it here.

That which is not so well known, is that bourgeois intellectuals also study those same Scientific Socialist Revolutionary theories, but for an entirely different reason. They are focused on determining the best way to distort those theories. These distortions, also known as revisions, are then taught in all Universities, to students who are, for the most part, members of that same class. Those students are then expected to carry those revisions into the groups leading the revolutionary movement, in an attempt to divert that movement, onto some harmless path of paltry reforms.

There is a point to that rather lengthy introduction. For once, I am focused on a different class, that of the petty bourgeois, and in particular, the ‘’upper stratum’’ of the ‘’middle class’’. As I just mentioned, the intellectuals of that class are supremely well aware of the Scientific Socialist Revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin.

To those bourgeois intellectuals, may I suggest a ‘’reality check’’. The finest of the American military analysts are admitting that Iran is winning the Middle East War. The American Empire is collapsing. The national debt is approaching forty trillion dollars, and if Trump has his way, will sky rocket. The revolutionary movement in the country is reaching a fever pitch, and will break out into open rebellion at any time. Now is not the time to ‘’straddle the fence’’. The ‘’writing is on the wall’’. Now is the time to ‘’cut your losses’’, before you lose everything. Feel free to face the fact that Marx and Lenin were correct. So ‘’jump on the bandwagon’’, join the working people taking part in this, the Second American Revolution. You will not be disappointed. 

Still not convinced? Perhaps you still have ‘’visions of joining the ranks of the bourgeoisie’’, ‘’dancing in your heads’’? That is not about to happen! Those who are worth hundreds of billions have ‘’laid down the law’’. They are about to set up an Oligarchy, a select few people, so that the ‘’books are closed’’.

There are only five businesses that are ‘’Too Big To Fail’’. All other businesses, including General Electric and General Motors, are ‘’Too Small To Succeed’’. The owners of those companies, including your own, are about to face bankruptcy, to be thrust into the ranks of the working class.

That is ‘’one side of the coin’’, so to speak. The flip side of the coin is that you have a bright future, should you choose to work in the service of the proletariat. Allow me to point out to you, that which you are already well aware, but refuse to face. Of course, I am referring to a passage from the Communist Manifesto, written by Marx and Engels, which sums up our current situation:

‘’Finally, in times when the class struggle nears the decisive hour, the process of dissolution going on within the ruling class, in fact within the whole range of old society, assumes such a violent, glaring character, that a small section of the ruling class cuts itself adrift, and joins the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands. Just as, therefore, at an earlier period, a section of the nobility went over to the bourgeoisie, so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat, and in particular, a portion of the bourgeois ideologists, who have raised themselves to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole .’’

Without doubt, the ‘’class struggle’’ is near the ‘’decisive hour’’. The ‘’ruling class’’ of bourgeoisie is deeply divided, with one section determined to establish the rule of an Oligarchy, while another section, led by Trump, is equally determined to set him up as Emperor. Now it is time for a ‘’portion of the bourgeoisie’’ to ‘’go over to the proletariat’’, and that ‘’portion’’ is yourselves, the ‘’bourgeois ideologists’’, as you have succeeded in ‘’raising yourselves theoretically’’ to ‘’comprehending’’ the ‘’historical movement as a whole’’. 

The working class, the proletariat, must be made aware of themselves, as a class, with their own class interests. You are in a unique position to raise their level of awareness. Feel free to explain to them the method of deception the capitalists use, in order to maintain their rule.

Now is the time to prepare for the Insurrection. Councils, otherwise known as Soviets, must be built and strengthened. These Councils assist the working people in various ways, both legal and illegal. This assistance comes in the form of food for the hungry, clothes and shelter for the homeless and needy, and possible relocation for battered women, among other things. 

As well, in preparation for the Insurrection, workers are being armed, equipped and trained. Weapons can include such items as sling shots, paint ball guns and simple spears, as well as firearms. As I have covered this in previous articles, there is no need to repeat it here.

Certain of the more advanced workers can be given the task of locating the huge animals I have identified. Those are the same animals which the bourgeois scientists claim be be extinct. The directions for locating those animals I have earlier documented. It is not difficult, but it is dangerous. To take part in a major scientific break through will serve to raise the morale and confidence of the working class, while at the same time serving to expose the lies and hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie.

The most advanced workers must be encouraged to assume leadership roles in various working class organizations, especially trade unions. As well, they should join both mainstream political parties, as card carrying members, along with their families and friends. In this way, they can run for political office, as members of both parties, possibly against themselves. Their political platform can include: increases in the pensions, tax free; free medical, dental, hearing and vision; free education; abolish all student loans; increase the minimum wage; defend the right to bear arms; make the rich pay their fair share. This is certain to secure the support of countless working people, everyone from seniors to students. What is more, it is completely legal. I have covered this in previous articles.

Such activity will serve as valuable training, in preparation for leadership roles they will have to assume, after the Revolution, under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

On the ‘’legal front’’, so to speak, may I suggest hiring an attorney, an expert in Constitutional law, or better yet a group of such attorneys, to challenge the 2024 Presidential Election, on the grounds that it did not follow the procedure laid out in the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution. As I have covered this in previous articles, there is no need to repeat it here. Suffice it to say that Trump is a fraudulent President, and Vance is a fraudulent Vice President. A simple ruling to that effect, by the Supreme Court, will result in their removal from office. Even if the Supreme Court refuses to rule on the matter, the level of awareness of the working class will be increased.
As well, there is an urgent need for a true Communist Party, one which calls for Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the one and only true form of Scientific Socialism. After all, working people need leaders, and that leadership must come from Scientific Socialists. Here too, with your organizational skills, you are in a unique position to take part in the creation of such a Communist Party, Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

Bear in mind that both Marx and Lenin were members of the bourgeois intelligentsia. They too, turned their backs on a rather comfortable middle class existence, in order to work in the service of the common people. Feel free to ‘’walk in their footsteps’’. Your previous experience, in the service of the bourgeoisie, will not be held against you. On the contrary, you can use that experience to drive home the point that classes exist, and that the class interests are diametrically opposed. This will help to raise the level of awareness of the proletariat.

In conclusion, the bourgeoisie have made it abundantly clear that they have every intention of destroying your class. Which in no way changes the fact that they expect you to continue to serve them, to the best of your ability. In popular terms, ‘’streets have been named after them’’. Those streets are named ‘’One Way’’. 

Without doubt, most middle class intellectuals will continue to serve their ‘’Lords and Masters’’, the bourgeoisie. As the Communist Manifesto makes clear, it is only a ‘’portion’’ of those ideologists who will ‘’make the jump’’. The remainder will ‘’remain faithful’’, much as a lapdog remains faithful.

There is a price to be paid for this loyalty. After the successful Scientific Socialist Revolution, after the existing state apparatus is smashed, and in turn replaced with a state of Soviet Power and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, these loyal lapdogs will join their former masters in remote work camps, performing useful, productive labour, for perhaps the first time in their lives. It may help to think of this as a reward for their years of faithful service. They certainly earned it!

By contrast, as previously mentioned, those who have joined the revolutionary movement, can expect to play a key role in building a new society. Working people do a number of things very well. Running a business is not one of them. Those who attempt this, generally manage to run that business ‘’into the ground’’. We will need people with the proper organizational and management skills. Of course I am referring to you people, middle class intellectuals. You can expect to be placed in key positions of management, and paid accordingly. You can also expect to take pride in your work, with good reason.

For those among you who choose to join the proletariat, the ‘’revolutionary class’’, the ‘’class that holds the future in its hands’’, allow me to express a most heartfelt greeting: ‘’Welcome My Brothers and Sisters, My Comrades’’! 

With Most Sincere Scientific Socialist Communist Greetings, Gerald McIsaac

Concerning Doomsday Prophets 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With Most Sincere Communist Greetings, 

Gerald McIsaac 

Concerning the 2026 Midterm Elections

As I write this, it is now early May, 2026. Yet even at this early date, the mainstream press is already focused on the ‘’Midterm Elections’’, counting down the months before the ‘’Big Vote’’, of November. As if that vote is about to change anything of substance!

It is referred to as the ‘’Midterm Elections’’, as it falls between the two ‘’Presidential Elections’’, of 2024 and 2028. Each and every Member of the House of Representatives are running for office, all 435 of them, as each serves a two year term.

In addition, there are 100 Senators, and each serves a six year term. Every two years, one third of them, or 33 this year, have to run for office. 

The Republican Party, led by President Donald Trump, has a majority in both ‘’Houses of Congress’’, which is to say the House of Representatives and the Senate. Yet there are countless Americans, including those who consider themselves to be ‘’progressive’’, or ‘’Leftist’’, or even ‘’Socialist’’, who are ‘’hoping and praying’’ that enough Democrats and ‘’Independents’’ can be elected, within both Houses of Congress, to reverse that majority, and pass laws to enact some meaningful change.

Without doubt, such people are honest, hard working, tax paying, law abiding, patriotic citizens. As such, they deserve our utmost respect, as well as our support. We are prepared to offer them every assistance, in their goal of electing progressive people to Washington. At the same time, we hope to achieve our goal of raising their level of awareness, to that of class conscious people.

It is a fundamental tenet of Marxism, that the conditions of life, of the working class, the proletariat, do not lead to the awareness of itself, as a class. This class awareness must come from an outside source, that of middle class intellectuals. Bear in mind that both Marx and Lenin were middle class. Yet both ‘’turned their backs’’ on a rather comfortable, middle class life style, in order to work in the service of the common people.

The best way to raise the level of awareness of the common people, both workers and family farmers, is by becoming involved in that which interests them. As they are currently interested in the Midterm Elections, that deserves our immediate attention.

There is certainly no harm in working towards the goal of electing ‘’progressive people’’, whether Members of the Democratic Party or an Independent Party, perhaps as an ‘’Independent Socialist’’, to either or both Houses of Congress. Yet to expect that this could possibly result in any meaningful change, as a result of a majority, is simply not reasonable.

The reason for this is quite simple. Both ‘’Houses of Congress’’, which is to say the Senate and House of Representatives, are part of that which is referred to as the ‘’state apparatus’’, or merely ‘’the state’’. This elaborate state apparatus has been established for one purpose and one purpose only- to crush the ‘’lower classes’’! Especially the working class, the proletariat!

The system is set up to ensure that each and every Member of Congress, as well as every Senator, regardless of the political party, serves the same class! The multi billionaires! The monopoly capitalists! The bourgeoisie!

Even though there is the odd ‘’renegade’’, and in particular the ‘’Members of the Squad’’, led by AOC, that is exceptional. It is simply not reasonable, nor is it possible, to expect to elect sufficient Members, to either House of Congress, to enact any significant change. After all, the state apparatus, which has been set up by the bourgeois, the monopoly capitalists, in order to crush the working class, the proletariat, cannot be used by the proletariat, in order to crush the capitalists. On the contrary, the existing state apparatus must be smashed, at the time of the Revolution,and replaced with a working class state apparatus, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. In that way, and only in that way, can the determined resistance of the capitalists be crushed, as they make every effort to ‘’restore their paradise lost’’. That is a basic tenet of Marxism.

This is not to imply that we should surrender that ‘’field of battle’’, that of any federal election, to our class enemies, the bourgeoisie. On the contrary, it is our duty to fight those people, wherever and whenever we find them! If nothing else, those who take part in those battles, will become schooled in the class conflict. Besides, it is reasonable to expect that we should win the odd ‘’skirmish’’.  

Yet there is a reasonable chance of success, of winning numerous elections, and not just those in Washington. This can only serve to assist our cause. Those who are elected will find out that the monopoly capitalists are in charge, and fully intend to remain in charge. Nothing of substance will change. The capitalists will not allow this.

It is the duty of Scientific Socialists, which is to say Communists, to raise the level of awareness of the working class. As it is customary in American society, to deny the very existence of classes, that is a ‘’tall order’’. Yet it must be done. 

For that reason, we will start with a few basic definitions. Those readers who are middle class may find this to be somewhat tiresome, but it cannot be helped. After all, our focus must be upon the working class.

The ‘’common people’’, by whom I mean workers and family farmers, tend to believe the American propaganda. Such propaganda is most impressive, intense and continuous. They believe that their ‘’democratically elected officials’’, whether Republican or Democratic, go to the capital of Washington, in order to represent them. Such is hardly the case! The system is established so that all elected officials, regardless of the political party, serve the same class!

The current situation can be compared to the Occupy Movement of 2011. At that time, countless working people were of the same opinion. They actually thought that their political leaders were not aware of the ‘’inequality’’ that existed, within society. So they decided to exercise their democratic right to protest, to occupy certain areas. The government responded with a certain brutality. In this way, the working people learned that the government does not represent them. It crushes them.

That same lesson must be learned, once again. No doubt, the veterans of the Occupy Movement can assist in this noble endeavour. Experience is such a great teacher! Especially when combined with those who warn beforehand. 

For that reason, it is appropriate for all of us to assist citizens in voting for candidates, in the Midterm Elections, of their choice. We can also encourage citizens to join the two mainstream political parties, as card carrying members, and run for office. As I have covered this in previous articles, there is no need to go into it here.

The idea is to ‘’take the bourgeois at their word’’. They say that ‘’if we do not like the way things are, we should change it from within’’. So be it! Run for any and all political offices! Encourage your families and friends to do the same! Your platform can contain certain slogans:

Increase The Pensions! Tax Free! Free Education! All Student Loans To Be Abolished! Increase The Minimum Wage! Defend The Bill Of Rights! Defend The Right To Bear Arms! Tax The Rich! Make Everyone Pay Their Fair Share! Abolish ICE! All Immigrants Legal!

In this way, you are sure to gain the support of the retired people, all students, the trade unions and sports enthusiasts, among others. A great many others! In fact, it is reasonable to expect almost all working people to support you, in your run for political office. 

It is also reasonable to expect the ruling class of monopoly capitalists, the bourgeoisie, to oppose you, to place every obstacle in your way. In this way, they will stand more exposed.

This brings us to working class people, technically referred to as proletarians, those who sell themselves by the hour. Such people are also known as ‘’wage slaves’’, or ‘’hourly employees’’, or simply ‘’workers’’. Those who are able to ‘’make ends meet’’, to ‘’put food on the table’’, as well as ‘’keep a roof over their heads’’, are not middle class! They are merely more ‘’fortunate’’ than so many other working people, who are reduced to the point of homelessness, living in vehicles, or even ‘’on the streets’’.

Family farmers, as the name implies, are composed of families who own some property and grow crops, of various sorts. These may include vegetables, fruit, berries and livestock, usually a combination of the afore mentioned. In most parts of the world, they are referred to as peasants. At least in North America, many farmers tend to work as hourly employees, whenever possible, in order to supplement their meagre income from the farm. In this way, they become both workers and farmers. 

It is note worthy that all workers and family farmers, at least here in North America, tend to refer to themselves as ‘’common people’’, or ‘’the little guy’’, or members of the ‘’rank and file’’, or even ‘’blue collar’’. They generally find the term ‘’masses’’ to be somewhat offensive, when applied to themselves. As well, the term ‘’backward’’ should be avoided, as so many workers think it means ‘’stupid’’. A more appropriate term is ‘’less advanced’’, when used in reference to those workers who are considered to be more ‘’conservative’’, or ‘’Right Wing’’ or even ‘’MAGA’’.  So I suggest that the words ‘’masses’’ and ‘’backward’’ be avoided, whenever possible, when used in reference to the working people. 

Middle class people, or small business owners, are referred to as ‘’petty bourgeois’’, in that petty means ‘’small time’’, and bourgeois means ‘’capitalist’’. Many of them have succeeded in investing their limited capital in a small business, if only a machine, and either run it themselves, or hire someone to run it for them. The more fortunate, those who are more successful, are able to hire people, even numerous people, to work for them.

It is the middle class which is of particular interest to us, especially the ‘’upper middle class’’, as they are aware of the existence of classes, and the conflict between them. Many of them have also been to University, and thereby exposed to the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. More accurately, they were taught the distortion of those revolutionary theories. Now certain of the older ones, who have been blessed with years of experience, have been forced to admit that ‘’Marx was right’’. 

They say this with the utmost bitterness, and are determined to ‘’weather the approaching storm’’, the Second American Revolution, which they know is rapidly approaching. Many of them are currently hoarding gold and other ‘’precious minerals’’, presumably in safety deposit boxes. As if that is about to do a world of good!

Such people tend to lead lives of ‘’quiet desperation’’, waiting for the ‘’axe to fall’’. They are well aware of the fact that the bourgeoisie has recently decided that merely five businesses are ‘’Too Big To Fail’’. They are equally well aware of the fact that ‘’every coin has two sides’’. The ‘’other side of that coin’’ is the fact that all other businesses are ‘’Too Small To Succeed’’! 

We can expect a few of these reasonably intelligent, misguided individuals, to ‘’come to their senses’’, to face the fact that capitalism has ‘’had its day’’, and that Scientific Socialism, in the form of Council Power- as Council is the English translation of the Russian word Soviet- and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, is ‘’on the horizon’’. 

The reason I say that this is of ‘’particular interest to us’’, is because those people, members of the middle class, are about to find themselves thrust into the ranks of the proletariat, the working class. They bring with them the awareness of the existence of classes, as well as the conflict between those classes. It makes no difference whether they enter the working class voluntarily, or against their will, ’’kicking and screaming’’, so to speak. It is their knowledge which is the important thing.

To such people, I have something to say: Welcome, My Brothers and Sisters, My Fellow Workers, My Comrades!

Fear not, your previous years of experience, in the service of the monopoly capitalists, the bourgeoisie, will not be held against you! On the contrary, you can use that experience to drive home the point that classes exist, and that the conflict between the classes, which is about to break out into open class warfare, is very real!

Further- as I suspect you may have already ‘’guessed’’!- feel free to face the fact that you have no future under capitalism. If nothing else, the multi billionaires have made that abundantly clear!

That is the ‘’bad news’’, to use an old, worn out joke, as I cannot resist the temptation. The ‘’good news’’, is that you have a bright, shining future under Scientific Socialism. 

After the successful Scientific Socialist Revolution, under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, your skills and training, in the fields of management and organization, will be in demand. You can expect to be rewarded, and most handsomely.

What is more, even before the outbreak of the Insurrection, which will overthrow the monopoly capitalists, smash the existing state apparatus, and establish the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, you still have an important role to play. That ‘’important role’’ involves raising the level of awareness of the working class, making them aware of themselves as a class, with their own class interests.

As well, feel free to become deeply involved with Councils, which are ‘’underground organizations’’, concerned with assisting working people, in various ways. These include, but are not limited to, arming, equipping and training workers, as preparation for the approaching Insurrection.

This brings us to the fourth class, that of the multi billionaires, or ‘’monopoly capitalists’’, or ‘’imperialists’’, the members of the class of people known as the ‘’bourgeoisie’’. They are also completely ‘’reactionary’’, which is to say that they are completely opposed to any change. In popular terms, we say that they are ‘’ultra conservative’’. They are also ‘’opportunists’’, which is to say, completely devoid of principle. Lying is their specialty! As well, they are complete parasites, as they contribute nothing to society. They specialize in investing their considerable capital, in various parts of the world, demanding a sizeable return on their investments. They care only about themselves and their immediate families. Regardless of the amount of money they have, it is not enough. They want more! They are the greatest enemies of the working class!

Those are the four main classes of people, which currently exist in North America. Only the remnants of other classes remain in existence, and very few of them. The bourgeoisie has done a fine job of simplifying the class struggle! To this day, ever more family farmers and small business owners are being driven into bankruptcy, and into the ranks of the working class. For that reason, the class struggle is increasingly becoming strictly that of capitalists versus workers, bourgeois versus proletarians! Both family farmers and small business owners are members of a ‘’dying breed’’.

It is also reasonable to expect that the forth coming Second American Revolution, will ‘’kick off’’, with that which is commonly referred to as a ‘’popular uprising’’, technically referred to as an ‘’Insurrection’’. Such an event may or may not be spontaneous. The more carefully planned and executed, the less spontaneous, the greater the chances of success. 

We can further expect the people taking part in this Revolution, to act in a manner which is something other than that which is generally considered to be within the bounds of ‘’socially acceptable behaviour’’. And rest assured, coating the class enemies of the working people with tar and feathers, and parading them through the streets, certainly qualifies as ‘’exceeding the bounds of decency’’.

That is most certainly true, and yet during times of Revolution, the polite norms of civilized society, tend to ‘’fall by the wayside’’. As the members of the ‘’lower classes’’, in this case the workers and family farmers, rise up and challenge the ‘’upper classes’’, the monopoly capitalists, those who have crushed and exploited them all their lives, we can expect to witness instances of mass brutality. Such behaviour is characteristic of all Revolutions, and calls for a little explanation.

The class of people known as the bourgeoisie, the multi billionaires, have a certain ‘’hold’’ over the working class. This is referred to as ‘’spiritual power’’, and is every bit as real as the physical force elements of repression. As that is the case, it too, must be destroyed. 

As well, the ‘’criminal element’’, which includes mobsters of various persuasions, politely referred to as ‘’organized crime’’, also exerts a great influence over the working class. This is another way of saying that working people are terrified of them. With good reason, I might add! 

This spiritual power, that of both the monopoly capitalists and the mobsters, must be smashed. I refer to this power as ‘’invisible chains’’, and consider them to be supremely dangerous, if only because they cannot be seen. The working class can be expected to overcome this spiritual power, to ‘’break these invisible chains’’, by publicly humiliating both the monopoly capitalists and the mobsters.

As a result of this anticipated public humiliation, we can expect all such recipients, to become ‘’sweetly reasonable’’. The mobsters will be only too anxious to disclose the location of all the ‘’buried bodies’’, as well as all the accomplices to their crimes, in an attempt to secure leniency. In addition, we can further expect all capitalists to  ‘’come clean’’, to reveal the hiding places of their wealth, including that of precious metals. 

The preceding pretty well covers the class struggle, as it relates to raising the level of awareness of the working class, the proletariat. We can think of that as one ‘’field of battle’’, the ‘’practical field’’, so to speak. Yet there is another area which demands our attention. That lies within the ‘’field of theory’’, or as I prefer to think of it, as a ‘’Roadmap to Scientific Socialism’’. 

As I have made clear in previous articles, the working class is spontaneously gravitating towards Scientific Socialism. Yet as they do not know how to get there, they can be compared to a driver who is lost, driving around in circles. We all do this, when we are ‘’lost’’. Finally, ‘’when all else fails’’, we break out the road map!

This is my somewhat less than subtle way of comparing the Scientific Socialist Revolutionary theories, of Marx and Lenin, to a road map. It is by following those Revolutionary theories, and only by following those Revolutionary theories, that the working class, the proletariat, can arrive at their goal of Scientific Socialism.

Yet to this day, there are countless people who are only too anxious to dispute that fact. These include all bourgeois scholars, and a considerable number of self described Socialists, including those who claim to be Scientific Socialists, also known as Communists. 

This is anything but a new phenomenon. On the contrary, the criticism of all of the fundamental tenets of Marxism, and not just the Revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin, has been emanating from the Universities, for some considerable time. 

The response of the ‘’Leftist’’ people, including those who claim to be ‘’Scientific Socialists’’, or ‘’Marxists’’, or ‘’Marxist-Leninists’’, or ‘’Communists’’, or just plain ‘’Socialists’’, has been very interesting. Many of them have embraced these ‘’revisionist’’ theories.

In the interest of giving credit where credit is due, it must be stated that a few of them openly admit to being ‘’revisionists’’. That stands in stark contrast to the vast majority, those who make every effort to revise those revolutionary theories, of Marx and Lenin, while doing so in their name!

This was the same problem Lenin faced, shortly after he and a few other middle class intellectuals, formed the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, in 1898. He quickly was confronted by the fact that the Party was divided. There were a considerable number of Members who wanted to ‘’change the Party platform’’, so to speak.

Bear in mind that Scientific Socialism was, at that time, referred to as ‘’Social Democracy. At the time the Party split, it was referred to as Bolshevism. And after the October Revolution of 1917, the name was changed to Communism.

In his article, What Is To Be Done?, he explained the difference. In the following, that which Lenin stated, I have placed in quotes. The italics within those quotes, are those of Lenin: 

‘’Social-Democracy must change from a party of the social revolution into a democratic party of social reform….The possibility of putting socialism on a scientific basis and of proving that it is necessary and inevitable from the point of view of the materialist conception of history was denied, as also were the facts of growing impoverishment and proletarianism and the intensification of capitalist contradictions. The very conception, ‘ultimate aim’, was declared to be unsound, and the idea of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat was absolutely rejected. It was denied that there is any difference in principle between liberalism and socialism. The theory of the class struggle was rejected on the grounds that it could not be applied to a strictly democratic society, governed according to the will of the majority, etc.’’ 

This is precisely the same nonsense that is being put forward by our current crop of social chauvinists, those who are socialists in words, chauvinists in deeds. The only difference is that, for the moment, we have no true Communist Party, in existence. 

In particular, the Democratic Socialists of America, possibly the largest of the lot, are fighting for ‘’Democracy and Reforms’’, rather than socialism. Yet they still refer to themselves as socialists! Is it too much to expect honesty from such people?

‘’Thus, the demand for a definite change from revolutionary Social-Democracy to bourgeois social-reformism was accompanied by a no less definite turn towards bourgeois criticism of all the fundamental ideas of Marxism. As this criticism of Marxism has been going on for a long time now, from the political platform, from university chairs, in numerous pamphlets and in a number of scientific works, as the younger generation of the educated classes has been systematically trained for decades on this criticism, it is not surprising that the ‘new, critical’ tendency in Social-Democracy should spring up, all complete, like Minerva from the head of Jupiter. The content of this new tendency did not have to grow and develop, it was transferred bodily from bourgeois literature to socialist literature.’’

That is true to this day! It is primarily the ‘’younger generation of the educated classes’’ who attend University, and in University, they are exposed to all of the ‘’bourgeois criticism’’, the distortion, the revisions, of ‘’all the fundamental ideas of Marxism’’. Then the ‘’younger generation of the educated classes’’ have managed to ‘’transfer bodily’’, these revisions, from ‘’bourgeois literature’’ to the various ‘’Leftist Parties’’, including those which claim to be Communist! No wonder the working people are confused!

‘’To proceed….If democracy, in essence, means the abolition of class domination, then why should not a Socialist minister charm the whole bourgeois world by orations on class cooperation? Why should he not remain in the cabinet even after the shooting down of workers by gendarmes has exposed, for the hundredth and thousandth time, the real nature of the democratic cooperation of classes?….And the reward for this utter humiliation and self degradation of socialism in the face of the whole world, for the corruption of the socialist consciousness of the working class- the only basis that can guarantee our victory- the reward for this is imposing  plans for paltry reforms, so paltry in fact that much more has been obtained from bourgeois governments!’’ 

Here in North America, the federal government agency known as ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has been caught on video tape, more than once, committing cold blooded murder! Yet no charges have been laid! As well, countless people, alleged to be ‘’illegal immigrants’’, have been arrested and deported, without due process of law, as is guaranteed in the Constitution. Others, including young children, infants, have been separated from their mothers, and placed in prison! Various federal agencies have defied federal court orders,  and not just ICE. Once again, the ‘’corruption of the socialist consciousness of the working class’’, is in ‘’full swing’’, as ‘’Leftist organizations’’, including those who claim to be Marxist, are calling for ‘’paltry reforms’’. Bear in mind that the ‘’socialist consciousness of the working class’’, is the ‘’only basis that can guarantee our victory’’!

‘’He who does not deliberately close his eyes cannot fail to see that the new ‘critical’ tendency in socialism is nothing more nor less than a new species of opportunism. And if we judge people not by the brilliant uniforms they deck themselves in, not by the imposing appellations they give themselves, but by their actions, and by what they actually advocate, it will be clear that ‘freedom of criticism’ means freedom for an opportunistic tendency in Social Democracy, the freedom to convert Social Democracy into a democratic reformist party, the freedom to introduce bourgeois ideas and bourgeois elements into socialism’’.

Right to the heart of the matter! No wonder working class people are confused! Those who claim to be Socialist, even Communists, are openly calling for ‘’class collaboration’’, sometimes in words, more frequently in deeds. Such people are completely devoid of principle, opportunists. Do not judge a book by its cover!

As Lenin stated, it is the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, which is the ‘’touchstone of a true Marxist’’! It is also a fact that true Communists, Scientific Socialists, call for Soviet Power, in that Soviet is a Russian word, which means Council. Those who are social chauvinists, avoid the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, as well as Soviet Power, as if they were infectious diseases!

To this day, the Democratic Republic remains democracy for the chosen few. Here in North America, that means a handful of multi billionaires, a tiny minority, are in charge of the democratic republic. For the vast majority of people, especially the working class and the family farmers, it remains that which it always has been. The dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.

With Most Sincere Communist Greetings,

Gerald McIsaac

American Astronauts Returning To the Moon- Ha!

The mainstream press is quite gleefully reporting that finally, after a space of fifty three years, the American astronauts are ‘’returning to the moon’’! In fact, if the press is to be believed, the Artemis II spacecraft, complete with a crew of four astronauts, has just taken off on a ‘’ten day mission, to the far side of the moon’’.

This begs the question: Are all of those mainstream journalists on drugs? Could it be that they have found some really good stuff? Perhaps they would care to share! Whatever it is they are smoking, it must be supremely potent! And to think that the greedy buggers are keeping it all to themselves! After all, no clean and sober individual could believe such nonsense!

The mainstream media is also reporting, much to their disgust, that to this day, a great many Americans simply do not believe that men ‘’walked on the moon’’, in the first place! With good reason, I might add! Because the supposed ‘’moon landing’’, of 1969, is a mere fairy tale! An elaborate hoax! A work of fiction! A pack of lies!

It is Adolf Hitler who is credited with saying that, ‘’If a lie is big enough, and repeated often enough, then people will believe it.’’ Whether or not he actually said that, is not the point. Without doubt, the American government officials certainly believes this to be true! In fact, they swear by it!

For over half a century, the American government has been propagating the lie that astronauts walked on the moon! Even though the lie is blatantly false, completely ridiculous! This has been documented in numerous articles and videos! Yet the American government officials persist in swearing it is true! As well, they are currently wasting a great fortune of taxpayer money, in sending a new generation of astronauts ‘’to the moon’’! Just how stupid do they think working people are?

Yet there are a few people, starry eyed optimists, one and all, who still believe the lies of the American government officials. It is for the sake of those simple, misguided souls, that this article is being written. They honestly believe that our democratically elected leaders would not stoop to the depths of so blatantly lying to the people, those who have elected them to office.

With that in mind, may I suggest that such people consider the facts. Some of these facts are presented reasonably well in a short video, on the internet, titled ‘’Debunking Moon Landing’’.

The video shows film from 1969, taken ‘’from the surface of the moon’’, as the ‘’Apollo spacecraft descended to the surface of the moon’’, carrying Neil Armstrong, the ‘’first man to set foot on the moon’’. Just how the descent of that spacecraft was filmed, from the surface of the moon, before anyone even set foot on the moon, is one of those ‘’not so little details’’, which NASA has conveniently neglected to explain.

This was followed by the famous ‘’First Footstep’’, that of Armstrong setting foot on the moon, and his famous statement, ‘’One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’’. That footprint is every bit as sharp and clear as the statement! And every bit the lie that the statement is!

Bear in mind that the moon has no atmosphere, which is to say, no air. For that reason, it never rains on the moon, as there is no water on the moon. Any dust on the moon, assuming it exists, must be absolutely dry, completely devoid of moisture. So how could a footprint leave such a sharp, clear impression? Such a footprint can be made only by stepping into a pile of damp mud. It is clearly a fake, and a rather poor one at that.

To proceed. After Armstrong ‘’stepped onto the moon’’, Buzz Aldrin, a second astronaut, joined him. They then proudly planted the American flag ‘’on the moon’’. This too was recorded. So who was holding the camera which recorded this momentous event? As well, how is it that the flag was ‘’blowing in the wind’’? Even though there is no atmosphere on the moon, so there cannot possibly be a breeze, much less a wind! Duh! 

Those two clowns, Armstrong and Aldrin, were also prancing around the surface of the moon, ‘’jumping for joy’’, no doubt. As the moon is much smaller that the earth, the gravity is much less, in fact one sixth that of our planet. So it follows that they could easily have jumped 2.7 meters, instead of the measly .6 meters they managed. It is clear that this ‘’film footage’’, from the ‘’surface of the moon’’, was recorded on planet earth, in some remote desert location, and then passed off as an elaborate deception. A rather poor deception, I might add!

Perhaps the ‘’Crown Jewel’’ in this bit of nonsense, is the filming of the spacecraft as it ‘’lifts off’’, from the ‘’surface of the moon’’. Just as someone filmed the landing of this space craft, even before anyone set foot on the moon, so too, someone filmed the space craft lifting off, even though no one was left behind. In fact, the editors merely played the landing of the spacecraft, but in reverse. Amateurs!

In addition, as I have documented in a previous article, there is a good reason that there is no way that astronauts could ‘’travel to the moon’’. It is not physically possible. To briefly summarize: The earth is a giant magnet, and creates a huge magnetic field, which wraps around the planet, much as an invisible protective blanket, which is precisely the case; this is referred to as the Van Allen Belt; this magnetic field blocks most of the radiation from the sun, which allows life to flourish; to send astronauts outside this magnetic field, this protective blanket, would be to expose them to massive doses of radiation, which would kill them, within a matter of weeks, if not days; the scientists do not deny this, and ‘’explain’’ that the space crafts which ‘’went to the moon’’, many years ago, were ‘’coated with a protective substance’’, which blocked this radiation; except that such a ‘’substance’’ does not exist now, and certainly did not exist half a century ago!; the astronauts of yesteryear did not go to the moon, and the astronauts of today are also not going to the moon! It simply cannot be done!

There is a reason I have chosen to go into this, in considerable detail. It is for the benefit of the less advanced members of the working class, those who still have faith in their democratically elected leaders, those who still believe that those politicians, as well as the scientists, including members of NASA, could not possibly lie to them. 

The fact of the matter is that the vast majority of working class people, are honest, hard working, law abiding, patriotic, tax paying citizens. They fully expect their democratically elected politicians, to be just as honest and patriotic. They also have the utmost respect and admiration for those who have spent years in the pursuit of science.

Which is somewhat unfortunate, as we live in a class society, and the politicians and scientists serve the class of monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie. The working class is merely not aware of this fact.

The conditions of life, of the working class, do not lead to the awareness of itself, as a class. Nor is it aware of the existence of the class of monopoly capitalists, the bourgeoisie. This is to say that the working class, the proletariat, is not ‘’class conscious’’. Further, it is most certainly not aware of the antagonism between the two classes. This awareness must be brought to the working class, from an outside source. Of course, I am referring to the founders of modern Scientific Socialism, Marx and Engels, as well as Lenin, who conducted a study of capitalism in its monopoly form, technically referred to as imperialism.

As the American working class is now quite cultured, the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin are readily available. They can be downloaded from the internet, or books can be bought, from bookstores or Amazon. A careful reading of the Communist Manifesto, as well as the Essential Works of Lenin, should give a worker a fine, basic understanding of those revolutionary theories.

We have got to respect the beliefs of the less advanced workers. They are not the enemy! It is up to us, Scientific Socialists, which is to say Communists, to explain to them, in terms which they can understand, the lies and deception, of the politicians and scientists. It is a most unpleasant fact, which must be faced. 

It is correct to focus mainly upon the most advanced workers, as they are the leaders of the working class. The less advanced workers pay strict attention to that which they say. Which is not to say that the less advanced workers should be neglected. It just means that other, perhaps more popular literature, but by no means vulgar, should be made available to them.

The American revolutionary movement is becoming ever stronger. The latest No Kings Protest was possibly the largest in the history of the country. Once again, as in October of 2025, the local police chose not to interfere. They have effectively joined the protest movement, or at least adopted a position of neutrality. 

It is clear that the country is close to a state of insurrection, in that the working class is about to rise up against the ruling class of monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie. The Second American Revolution is about to break out, into a state of open class warfare. This begs the question: What are the conditions necessary for a successful insurrection?

It was Lenin who faced that question in September of 1917. His answer came in the form of an article, titled ‘’Marxism and Insurrection’’, to the Central Committee of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. ( It was only after the Revolution that the name of the Party was changed to the Communist Party)  

‘’To be successful, insurrection must rely not upon conspiracy and not upon a Party, but upon the advanced class. That is the first point. Insurrection must rely upon a revolutionary upsurge of the people. That is the second point. Insurrection must rely upon that turning point in the history of the growing revolution, when the activity of the advanced ranks of the people is at its height, and when the vacillations in the ranks of the enemy and in the ranks of the weak, half-hearted and irresolute friends of the revolution are strongest. That is the third point. …Once these conditions exist, however, to refuse to treat insurrection as an art, is a betrayal of Marxism and a betrayal of the revolution.’’ (italics by Lenin)

Here we have the three conditions necessary to achieve a successful insurrection, according to Lenin. First and foremost, it must ‘’rely upon the advanced class’’, which is to say the working class, the proletariat. A few individuals, perhaps high ranking members of the Trump administration and the military, could conceivably attempt to overthrow the government, mount a ‘’coup’’, and set themselves up as the new leaders. Yet that would not lead to a successful insurrection. 

It is also a fact that the leadership provided by a true Communist Party, one which calls for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, is not absolutely required. That is something of a comfort, as such a Communist Party does not currently exist. 

This brings us to the second requirement, that of a ‘’revolutionary upsurge of the people’’. The latest No Kings Protest, the largest in the history of the country, certainly qualifies as that ‘’revolutionary upsurge’’. 

The third requirement, that of the ‘’turning point in the history of the growing revolution’’, is rapidly approaching, or perhaps is already present. It is safe to say that almost all advanced workers, and a great many not so advanced workers, took part in the recent No Kings Protest. As well, a considerable number of family farmers and middle class people, ‘’took to the streets’’. In fact, people from ‘’all walks of life’’, young and not so young, are now protesting. They have had enough!

This brings us to the ‘’vacillations within the ranks of the enemy’’. The ruling class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, are clearly deeply divided. They want to establish the rule of an Oligarchy, and have appointed Trump, as one of their own, to set that up. Yet Trump is not cooperating. He has his own ideas. He wants to set himself up, as a Monarch! He has surrounded himself with sycophants, otherwise known as ‘’belly crawling boot lickers’’, who are constantly telling Trump how great he is, while at the same time, ’’stabbing each other in the back’’!

As a result of this, some of the finest, most capable members of the administration, as well as fine high ranking military personnel, have been fired! The Trump administration is in a state of absolute chaos!

Yet the astute reader may have noticed that the title of this article makes reference to the supposed ‘’flight to the moon’’, and may quite reasonably wonder just what this has to do with ‘’insurrection’’. My response: A great deal!

As I have documented in previous articles, Trump is making a determined effort to protect numerous members of his class, the bourgeoisie, from the ‘’fallout’’ of the ‘’Epstein Scandal’’. After all, Epstein sold countless children, underage girls, at a very high price, but only to those who could afford to buy them. Billionaires, one and all. Also child molesters, pedophiles. 

In an attempt to divert the revolutionary motion, of the working class, to secure justice for those girls, now of course adults, Trump first went to war with the country of Iran. As that was somewhat ineffective, he decided to stage the farce of a ‘’trip to the moon’’. At the expense of a great mountain of taxpayer money!

The ruling class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, can afford to wage war in the Middle East, and to fake a ‘’trip to the moon’’, while countless Americans are homeless, hungry, and deprived of medical care! Working class Americans, one and all, which are of no concern to the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie! Whatever it takes to divert the attention of the working class from the Epstein Scandal! The billionaire pedophiles must be protected, at all costs!

This is to drive home the point that the ruling class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, are completely reactionary. They must be overthrown! The existing state apparatus, which has been set up to crush the working class, must be destroyed! Yet as classes will continue to exist, even after the Revolution, a new state apparatus is required, as the former multi billionaires make every effort to ‘’restore their paradise lost’’! That new state apparatus is referred to as the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. 

The success of the forth coming Insurrection, which will ‘’kick off’’ the Second American Revolution, will rely entirely upon the working class, the proletariat. The more class conscious they are, the more aware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin, the better the chances of success. 

To the people taking part in this protest movement, allow me to express my deepest gratitude. Also, as you are soon about to take part in the Insurrection, rest assured that I have complete confidence in you. No doubt you will rise to the occasion.

With Most Sincere Scientific Socialist, Communist Greetings, 

Gerald McIsaac