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In my opinion, the current situation in America, is precisely described, in the Communist Manifesto:

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

As for those who are skeptical, feel free to consider the following facts: 

America has just experienced the longest government shutdown in history.

Medical insurance premiums for millions of Americans are about to ‘’go through the roof’’, so that most working class people, are about to lose their medical coverage.

The tax money saved will go towards tax cuts for the monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie.

The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, used the government shutdown as an excuse to not swear in the latest Member of Congress, Arizona Democratic Representative, Adelita Grijalva, for fifty days, after she was elected.

As soon as she was sworn in, her first act was to sign the ‘’Discharge Petition’’, in an attempt to force the release of the ‘’Epstein Files’’.

All of the Democratic Members of the House, as well as four Republican Members, had earlier signed that Petition. That brought the total to 217. As there are 435 Members of Congress, her vote brought it up to the required 218 majority, in order to force a vote. 

Now Mike Johnson has agreed to call a vote next week, concerning the release of the Epstein Files.

At the moment, twenty thousand pages of documents, including countless emails from Jeffrey Epstein, from 2011 to 2119, have been released.

These emails from Epstein, mention Trump multiple times. Epstein alleges, in his emails, that ‘’Trump knew about the girls Epstein was trafficking’’, that Epstein ‘’gave one of his girlfriends to Trump’’, that ‘’Trump spent hours in Epstein’s house’’, with an ‘’underage girl’’. He also referred to Trump as a ‘’maniac with early dementia’’.

The Leftist press is reporting that Trump has ‘’descended into full panic mode’’, over the release of the twenty thousand pages of Epstein Files, as well as the threat of the release of hundreds of thousands of more documents.

Accordingly, he summoned Republican Member of Congress, Lauren Boebert, who has signed the Petition, to a meeting in the White House situation room, to ‘’discuss her demand to release the Epstein Files’’. In fact, Trump and senior officials tried to intimidate her, to force her to change her mind. It is to her credit that she stood her ground.

In a desperate attempt to get someone to swear that he was not involved with Epstein, Trump has stooped to the depth of bribing Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of Epstein, an individual who is currently serving a twenty year sentence for trafficking underage girls, also convicted of perjury. Trump had her transferred to a minimum security prison, and she is being rewarded with various privileges. He will very likely issue her a pardon, in return for her assurances that Trump was not aware of the Epstein sex trafficking operation. As if anyone is about to take the word of a convicted sex offender!

If Mike Johnson keeps his word, and the vote to release the Epstein Files takes place, then at least 100 Republican Members of Congress are expected to vote to release those files. Assuming that happens, then it will have to go to the Senate. Further assuming the Senate votes on the issue, and also assuming they pass the resolution, then it has to go to Trump, and he is almost certain to veto the bill. At that point, the House and Senate can override his veto, if they so choose. That is a lot of assumes!

From a Scientific Socialist, Communist standpoint, the main point is not so much the release of the Epstein Files, as is the fact the the working class, the proletariat, is receiving an education. Their level of awareness is being raised. They are becoming more aware of themselves as a class, as opposed to the class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie.

In the interest of further raising their level of awareness, to the point of class consciousness, may I suggest watching a video, recently posted on the internet. Leftist journalists can learn from that video. It is titled, ‘’Capital Hill Erupts As Lawmakers Demand Trump’s Resignation Or Impeachment, Over Abuse Of Power’’. I have summarized the first eight minutes, of that video, as best I was able, as that is the significant part. 

It begins by stating that even ‘’Republican Members of Congress are calling for Trump to resign’’. This is followed by a balanced, thoughtful, accurate analysis of the current political situation, by Gavin Pierce, without resorting to vulgarity! A sin of which all too many Leftist journalists are guilty!

The reason that I so deeply disapprove of the use of vulgarity, within political videos, is because the most advanced workers also disapprove of this. In fact, when hearing such language, they frequently change the video! This defeats the purpose of the video! Bear in mind that it is the most advanced workers who lead! The less advanced workers pay strict attention to the opinion of the most advanced.

The narrator goes on to state: ‘’Capital Hill is erupting. Full blown chaos in Congress. Lawmakers, both Democrats and some Republicans, are demanding that Trump either resign or face impeachment. …This is over 120 House Members and at least seven Senators who said Trump needs to go. They are citing abuse of power, unauthorized military operations, defiance of court rulings, the ongoing government shutdown chaos, and they are saying ‘enough is enough, Trump has crossed too many lines, violated too many Constitutional norms, and he needs to be removed from office’. This is an unprecedented moment in American politics. …The stakes could not be higher. …If Congress actually moves forward with impeachment, or if enough pressure builds for Trump to resign, we are talking about a Constitutional Crisis….’’

So far so good. The preceding was an accurate description of our current situation, stated without undue emotion. This is followed by an excerpt from a separate video, which documents the fact that ‘’Trump wants to be a dictator’’. 

The narrator goes on to state that the calls for the impeachment of Trump have ‘’reached a fever pitch’’, after a ‘’series of drone strikes, that Trump allegedly ordered, without proper authorization. Violations of Constitutional limits of executive power’’. 

In an attempt to divert the revolutionary motion, of the working class, away from the Epstein Scandal, Trump has decided to go to war with Venezuela! The drone strikes, against Venezuelan ships, killing many innocent people, is just the beginning! The anticipated full blown war, if it happens, will result in death and destruction, on a vast scale. Not that Trump cares! He only cares about staying in power! Whatever it takes to maintain his continuous rule, along with his class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie! Nothing else matters!

This detail the narrator managed to gloss over.

He went on to state, ‘’It is like watching a slow motion train wreck. But now Congress is finally … demanding action. ..Multiple Republicans have joined Democrats in calling for Trump’s removal…Some are calling for impeachment, while others are calling for the invocation of the Twenty Fifth Amendment. …A formal impeachment resolution is on the table…seven articles of impeachment against Trump….a detailed indictment of Trump’s conduct in office….The Twenty Fifth Amendment allows the Vice President and the majority of the Cabinet to remove a President who is unable to discharge the duties of office…These calls for resignation …reflect wide spread political instability and mounting public protest. A break down in the basic functioning of government.’’

True, at the highest levels of government, officials are considering the best way to remove Trump from office, but only as a result of the revolutionary motion! They are being forced into this! The narrator does his best to also gloss over this point!

This brings us to Minute 8 of the video, and up to this point the narrator was doing reasonably well. But in the following sixteen minutes, he lost his way. He goes into the various possibilities of removing Trump from office, all within the legal bourgeois system. Yet he fails to take into account the revolutionary motion. He makes no mention of the fact that, during the recent No Kings Protest, even though an estimated seven million people protested, all across the country, no one was arrested! This is an indication that the local police have joined the Revolution! The Second American Revolution!

Almost certainly, this narrator has been to University, as he is supremely well spoken. Equally without doubt, he must be aware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. More accurately, he has been exposed to those theories, as only the bourgeois distortion of those theories are taught in University. As well, he must believe those distortions. 

Even though the narrator is clearly an intelligent, well educated, articulate individual, he cannot face the fact that America is currently experiencing a Second American Revolution.

This is rather strange, as the United States came into existence, as the result of a Revolution! The Revolutionary War of 1776! A Revolution of which Americans are supremely proud! With good reason, I might add. So how is it that so many well educated Americans refuse to believe that it can happen again? 

The Communist Manifesto gives us the answer:  

‘’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.’’

This narrator, one of the finest of the ‘’bourgeois ideologists’’, is not capable of ‘’raising himself to the level of comprehending theoretically the historical movement as a whole’’. He is still focused on the old, worn out, obsolete, bourgeois method of rule. He and countless others, I might add.

Yet the Second American Revolution is underway. The working class is focused on the Epstein Scandal, and the response of the monopoly capitalist class of multi billionaires, as spear headed by the Trump administration. Now it is up to Scientific Socialists, Communists, to use this Scandal to raise the level of awareness of the working class, the proletariat, or at least the most advanced workers, to the level of Conscious People, Scientific Socialists, Communists!

The working class, the proletariat, must become aware of itself as a class, with its own class interests, which are diametrically opposed to the interests of the class of monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie! 

The conditions of life, of the proletariat, do not lead to the awareness of itself, as a class! This class awareness must be brought to the working class, from an outside source. That outside source is middle class intellectuals! Bear in mind that both Marx and Lenin were middle class intellectuals! Their revolutionary theories must be brought to the working class! 

There is a sense of urgency to this, as the Second American Revolution is already underway. Now the revisionists, those who claim to be Scientific Socialists, Communists, but are determined to revise those revolutionary theories, are equally determined to take over the existing state apparatus, and set themselves up, as the new rulers.

It is a fundamental tenet of Scientific Socialism, that the existing state apparatus, which has been set up to crush the working class, has to be smashed, and replaced with a new state apparatus, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat! 

Rest assured, after the Revolution, after the multi billionaires are stripped of their wealth and power, they will not resign themselves to their fate! On the contrary, their rage, their hatred, their fury, will increase ten fold, to red hot levels! They will go to any length, stoop to any depth, even to the level of pretending to be dedicated Communists, in order to infiltrate the Communist Party- one of their most effective tactics!- with the goal of returning to power! 

That is precisely what happened in the two formerly Scientific Socialist republics of the Soviet Union and China. The leaders of those countries made some serious mistakes, which enabled the capitalists to return to power. This is no cause for despair on our part. As we are all human, we all make mistakes. Now it is our duty to learn from the mistakes of those great revolutionaries, so as not to repeat those same mistakes.

Time is not on our side! A full blown insurrection could break out at any time! A Revolution is similar to a volcano. It can and will explode, but only when it is good and ready! The precise time cannot be predicted.

On the other hand, the working class is now quite well cultured, so that raising their level of awareness is nowhere near as difficult as it used to be. By comparison, in Russia, in the summer of 1917, Lenin was faced with the urgent task of raising the level of awareness of the working class, in preparation for the approaching Revolution. Even though the Russian proletariat was not at all cultured, he succeeded, within a rather short time. The workers were prepared for the October Revolution of 1917.

As Lenin and the Russian Communists succeeded, under circumstances which were far more challenging than those we face today, then we too can succeed. Bear in mind that most workers have access to various digital devices, and know how to use them. That makes our task much easier.

In summary, we can say that Trump plans to set himself up as dictator, the leader of the class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie. The democratic republic is in the process of being dismantled. The impoverishment and suffering of the working class is about to be dramatically increased! At the same time, the Second American Revolution is now breaking out, and needs direction. The level of awareness of the working class must be raised. Preparations must be made for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

As I have gone into this, in detail, in numerous previous articles, there is no need to repeat it here. 

With Most Fraternal Communist Greetings, 

Gerald McIsaac

On October 18, 2025, the largest single day protest in American history took place. All across the country, an estimated seven million people ‘’took to the streets’’. This was billed as a ‘’No Kings Protest’’, and was organized by over two hundred organizations! As the mainstream press reported, quite diplomatically, this was a ‘’massive demonstration against perceived authoritarianism under President Donald Trump’’. 

In fact, as the name suggests, the mass protests were against the plan of Trump, to set himself up as an Emperor of some sort, starting with serving a third term as President, in direct violation of the Constitution!

The significance of this protest, lies not so much in the number of people who took part in the demonstrations, but in the fact that no one was arrested! The only explanation for this, is in the fact that the local police have joined the protest movement!

As that is the case, it is now reasonable to say that the ‘’American Protest Movement’’ has ‘’graduated’’ into a full scale Revolutionary Movement, the beginning of the Second American Revolution!

Remarkably enough, Marx and Engels predicted this, in 1847, at the time they wrote the Communist Manifesto. As they phrased it:

‘’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.’’

We are clearly ‘’near the decisive hour’’! The fact that the local police have joined the ‘’revolutionary class’’, the working class, the proletariat, the ‘’class that holds the future in its hands’’, is proof of this. This is nothing other than part of the ‘’process of dissolution going on within the ruling class’’. 

Now we can expect ‘’a portion of the bourgeoisie’’, those who are ‘’bourgeois ideologists’’, to ‘’go over to the proletariat’’. These are the few bourgeois ideologists who are capable of ‘’raising themselves theoretically to comprehending the historical movement as a whole.’’

This is of exceptional importance, and calls for a little explanation. 

We can start by facing the fact that Marx, Engels and Lenin, the Founders of modern Revolutionary Scientific Socialism, were themselves members of the bourgeois intelligentsia. Each turned their backs on a comfortable middle class life style, in order to work in the service of the common people, both workers and family farmers. 

My point is that those working people who are prejudiced against bourgeois intellectuals, are of necessity prejudiced against those same Founders of Scientific Socialism! Get over it! The input, of such people, is most valuable!

Take note that there is a huge difference between Scientific Socialism, and Utopian Socialism. It was Marx who proved, by a thorough scientific examination of capitalism, that it would necessarily lead to a state of Scientific Socialism. He made this quite clear in 1852, in a letter to Weydemeyer:

‘’And now as to myself, no credit is due to me for discovering the existence of classes in modern society, nor yet the struggle between them. Long before me, bourgeois historians had described the historical development of this class struggle, and bourgeois economists the economic anatomy of the classes. What I did that was new was to prove: 1) that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular historical phases in the development of production; 2) that the class struggle necessarily leads to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat; 3) that this Dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society.’’ (italics by Lenin)

This stands in stark contrast to the belief of most Utopian Socialists, who are of the opinion that Socialism is merely a ‘’good idea’’. They are further of the opinion that it is ‘’simply not possible’’, so that the best we can do is ‘’demand certain reforms’’.

In fact, as I have documented in a previous article, several attempts have been made, by supremely well meaning Utopian Socialists, to establish a state of Socialism, under capitalism! All such attempts failed, through no fault of those who were making the attempt. Such a state of socialism, under capitalism, is simply not allowed. It cannot be done!

In particular, here in North America, it is customary to deny the very existence of classes! The bourgeois would have us believe that classes do not exist! Which is precisely the belief of a great many working people! So many of those same working people are also agreed that Socialism is also merely a ‘’good idea’’, but not about to happen!

This fact serves to drive home the point that the working class, the proletariat, is not aware of itself as a class! The conditions of life, of the proletariat, do not lead to that awareness! Nor are they aware of the fact that their interests, are diametrically opposed to the interests of the  class of multi billionaires, the monopoly capitalists, the bourgeoisie. How can they be aware of this? They are not even aware of the existence of classes!

Of necessity, this brings us to one of the most highly respected, Leftist organizations in the country, that of the Democratic Socialists of America, DSA. As the Second American Revolution unfolds, we can expect workers to look to that organization for leadership. And what can we expect the DSA to advise the American proletariat? Their web site provides us with the answer:

‘’Who we are

‘’The Democratic Socialists of America is the largest socialist organization in the United States, with over 80,000 members and chapters in all 50 states. We believe that working people should run both the economy and society democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few.’’

The DSA wants ‘’working people to run both the economy and society democratically to meet human needs’’. As if the multi billionaires are about to allow such a thing! The economy and society are run by the bourgeoisie, for the profits of the bourgeoisie. Wishful thinking is not about to change that!

‘’What we do

‘’We are a political and activist organization, not a party; through campus and community-based chapters, DSA members use a variety of tactics, from legislative to direct action, to fight for reforms that empower working people.’’

Now we get to the heart of the matter. The DSA is focused on ‘’fighting for reforms that empower working people’’. Yet as the monopoly capitalist class, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, is firmly in charge, there can be no question of ‘’empowering working people’’! The bourgeoisie already has that power, and fully intends to hang onto it! Utopian Socialism at its finest!

By contrast, it is a fundamental tenet of Scientific Socialism, Communism, that the working class, the proletariat, must smash the existing state apparatus, that which has been set up by the bourgeoisie, in order to crush the proletariat, and replace it with a new state apparatus, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat! In no other way can the resistance of the bourgeoisie be overcome. 

Rest assured, after the Revolution, after the existing state apparatus is smashed, after the bourgeoisie is crushed, under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, their resistance will increase tenfold! They will stoop to any depth, resort to any lie, any subterfuge, in order to ‘’recover their paradise lost’’. 

They must not be underestimated! Given a chance, they will return to power, as they did in the formerly Scientific Socialist countries of the Soviet Union and China. We must not repeat the mistakes of previous great Revolutionaries, such as Stalin and Mao. Instead, we must learn from their mistakes, and exercise all round Dictatorship, over those parasites.

The proletariat must be made aware of all of this, and quickly. Time is not on our side. That begs the question: How best to raise the level of awareness of the proletariat? The answer is of course through the creation of a true Communist Party, one which calls for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. An American Communist Party, Dictatorship of the Proletariat, ACP, DP. 

In October of 1918, Lenin had a word to say, concerning that very subject:

‘’Europes greatest misfortune and danger is that it has no revolutionary party. It has parties of traitors…and of servile souls like Kautsky. But it has no revolutionary party.

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

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

‘’World Bolshevism will conquer the world bourgeoisie.’’

(italics by Lenin. At the time of the writing of this article, Communism was referred to as Bolshevism)

Now this ‘’greatest misfortune and danger’’ is also plaguing North America, as it has no ‘’revolutionary party’’. We can only hope that this ‘’mighty, popular revolutionary movement’’, currently sweeping the country, may ‘’rectify this deficiency’’.

It is reasonable to expect certain bourgeois ideologists, those who have managed to ‘’raise themselves theoretically to comprehending the historical movement as a whole’’, to take part in the creation of such a party, an American Communist Party, Dictatorship of the Proletariat, ACP, DP. 

Of course, that is up to Americans. As I am Canadian, that does not directly concern me. Yet in the spirit of international working class cooperation, expressed in the slogan, ‘’Workers of the World, Unite!’’, I can only express my willingness to assist in this noble endeavour, in any way possible.

With Most Fraternal Communist Greetings, 

Gerald McIsaac

In 1847, Marx and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto. Even at that time, in the ‘’early days’’ of capitalism, the capitalists recognized the danger posed by the Scientific Socialist, Revolutionary theories of Marx. This is made clear at the very beginning of the Communist Manifesto:

‘’A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre.’’ 

It was not just the capitalists who were terrified of those Scientific Socialist theories of Marx. Also the nobility, clergy and landlords, among others. At that time, in Europe, those classes had considerable power. The Communist Manifesto went on to state:

‘’Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?’’

That is true, to this day. Certainly in America, to be branded a Communist, is the ultimate political insult. It is also one of the favourite insults of Trump. He takes great delight in accusing all of his political enemies of being Communists.

The Communist Manifesto goes on to state:

‘’Two things result from this fact:

1. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power
2. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.’’ 

After this brief introduction, the Communist Manifesto gets to the heart of the matter:

‘’1. Bourgeois and Proletarians

‘’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 in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in 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.

‘’The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted 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 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: bourgeoisie and proletariat.’’

This is followed by a description of the manner in which the class of bourgeoisie grew and developed, becoming ever more powerful, until ‘’at last, since the establishment of modern industry and of the world market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative state, exclusive political sway. The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie,’’ as per the Communist Manifesto.

The fact must be stressed that the bourgeoisie is now so powerful, the state apparatus is now set up to ‘’manage the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie’’. The two mainstream political parties, Republican and Democratic, are but two sides to the same coin, as both serve the same class, the monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie. The leaders of each party recite the speeches they are told to recite, in order to give the impression that there is a difference between them. There is not. It is simply a matter of fooling the common people, the working class, the proletariat.

This is followed by a passage which many readers may find to be quite surprising. The revolutionary role of the bourgeoisie, in the early, pre monopoly, competitive stage of capitalism:

‘’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 religion fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water 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, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal 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 reduced the family relation to a mere money relation.

‘’The bourgeoisie has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigour in the Middle Ages, which reactionists so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. It has been the first to show what mans’ activity can bring about. 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.’’

This is followed by a description of the manner in which the bourgeoisie is ‘’constantly revolutionizing the means of production’’, which results in ‘’drawing all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization.’’ Further, that same bourgeois society 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.’’ This gives rise to the  periodic ‘’epidemic of over production’’, otherwise known as ‘’crises in capitalism’’. 

Yet it is not just over production which leads to crises in capitalism. That which is technically referred to as a ‘’mass movement’’, also leads to such crises. Most common people refer to this as a ‘’public uprising’’, in which the ‘’masses’’ – an expression I hate and tend to avoid, as it sounds so impersonal – become focused on a particular subject of ‘’abuse of power’’, by the capitalists, to phrase it in polite terms. The current crisis in capitalism is based on that which is referred to as the ‘’Epstein Scandal’’. 

It is the Epstein Scandal which has captured the attention of the vast majority of ‘’common people’’, by whom I mean workers and family farmers. Jeffrey Epstein was a most prolific pedophile, which is to say a child molester, one who ‘’trafficked’’ underage girls, a ‘’pimp’’ who sold children to numerous ‘’Johns’’, all of whom are classified as ’’rich and powerful’’ men. Epstein was eventually arrested and charged with some very serious crimes. He was facing a rather lengthy prison sentence. While in prison, he was found dead in his cell.  

Almost no one is buying the ‘’official cause of death’’, as that of ‘’suicide by hanging’’, within the prison, as such a suicide is simply not possible. There is nothing, on the ceiling of any prison, to which any device can be attached! Epstein was clearly murdered! Dead men ‘’tell no tales’’!

This brings us to that which the legal experts refer to as ‘’motive, means and opportunity’’. Consider first the motive, the possible reason someone could have for wanting to kill that piece of human garbage. Aside from ‘’moral indignation’’, of course. The answer is that his ‘’customers’’, his ‘’clients’’, his ‘’Johns’’, child molesters, one and all, are not at all anxious to be exposed as the pedophiles, that they are. It is entirely possible that Epstein was prepared to ‘’rat out’’ his ‘’customers’’, to give the government their identity, in return for a reduced sentence. This is common practice, among such human filth.

Then there is the ‘’means’’, which is to say the money required to ‘’arrange’’ for his supposed suicide. As the clients of Epstein were all ‘’filthy rich’’, supremely wealthy, many of them multi billionaires, they certainly had the means. Money may not buy happiness, but it certainly buys almost everything else, including murder. Numerous mobsters can testify to that fact!

This brings us to ‘’opportunity’’. As Epstein was locked up, in prison, his enemies knew precisely where to locate him. Then it was a simple matter of sending in the proper assassin, probably a government employee, with orders to ‘‘arrange a suicide’’.

The ensuing ‘’cover up’’, to phrase it in legal jargon, was handled in a rather clumsy manner. The video of the assassin entering the cell of Epstein was altered, in a most amateurish fashion. Experts on video surveillance have established that it was replaced with a video from a previous day. The guards were ‘’advised’’ to remain silent, and the Medical Examiner was ‘’persuaded’’ to falsify the ‘’Cause Of Death’’, COD, as being ‘’that of suicide’’, due to ‘’death by hanging’’. Bear in mind that there is a heavy penalty for falsifying such a legal document. Not only could such a person lose their medical license, but also be charged as an accessory to murder. Such a conviction carries a lengthy prison sentence.

Amateurs! Any self respecting mobster would have handled this murder and subsequent cover up, in a far more professional manner! This official ‘’suicide’’ of Epstein, was clearly arranged by those who are not experts in homicide. Government officials, without a doubt!

Now the ‘’Epstein Cover Up’’ is continuing, still within an amateurish manner. On October 1 of this year, 2025, the government officially entered an official shut down. This provided the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, with an opportunity to also ‘’shut down’’ the House of Representatives!

With the  House of Representatives shut down, the proposed motion to force a vote to release the ‘’Epstein Files’’, has been delayed, indefinitely. Those files contain a list of names of all people who were allegedly the ‘’customers’’ of Epstein, child molesters, pedophiles, one and all. None of those supremely wealthy people are at all anxious to have their names made public.

Bear in mind that we live in a democratic society, so that all members have certain democratic rights. Just because a name is on a list, does not make that person guilty of any crime. We are all entitled to our ‘’day in court’’. ‘’Innocent until proven guilty’’, as is the popular expression. 

It is significant that Richard Wolff, one of the most highly respected bourgeois economists, is increasingly concerned. He frequently gives long winded, rambling monologues, and one of his most recent speeches was no exception. Yet he touched upon a subject that has aroused the curiosity of numerous middle class intellectuals:

‘’Unlike the controversies of the past, this is different. This time, the legal heat has reached a level we have never seen before. ..It is an avalanche of criminal charges…It is a full blown storm, the kind that threatens everything in its path…In the past, Trump thrived on distraction, delay and deflection….the system is pushing back harder than ever before….What happens next? Can Trump still withstand this flood of legal attacks? Or is this the start of his political downfall?…It is what is happening with his political base…but now that ironclad loyalty is starting to fracture…’’

Wolff is correct when he states that ‘’this is different’’. The difference is that the working people are demanding answers! They are not taking distraction, delay and deflection lying down! The usual ‘’stone walling’’ of Trump is no longer being tolerated! 

Wolff is also correct when he states that the ‘’ironclad loyalty’’ of his most devoted followers, his ‘’political base’’, is indeed ‘’fracturing’’.

According to an article, posted on the internet, it is alleged that Representative Eric Swalwell maintains that ‘’House Republicans support for President Donald Trump, in the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal, is collapsing’’. In particular, he is reported to have said that, ‘’It’s coming to an end, guys. I’ve spoken to a lot of House Republicans this week and they’ve confided that Trump’s movement/support is fading. As one told me, ‘This Epstein bomb is about to drop and no one wants to defend a pedo-protector. It’s just a matter of time’’’.

The Communist Manifesto also explains this. As it states, ‘’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.’’

This is followed by a description of the development of the proletariat. The struggle against the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, force the workers to unite. As the Communist Manifesto states, ‘’Thereupon the workers begin to form combinations (trade unions) against the bourgeois; they club together in order to keep up the rate of wages; they found permanent associations in order to make provision beforehand for these occasional revolts….This organization of the proletarians into a class, and consequently into a political party, is continually being upset again by the competition between the workers themselves. But it ever rises up again, stronger, firmer, mightier. …Further, as we have already seen, 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.’’

We are currently at the point where a great many middle class intellectuals, are being forced to join the working class, the proletariat. There is little or no choice in the matter. They bring with them their awareness of the Scientific Socialist, Revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. 

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

May I suggest that the ‘’class struggle’’ is now at the ‘’decisive hour’’. It is just a matter of time, and probably a short time, before the House of Representatives is called back into session. Then the House will be forced to vote to release the Epstein Files. This vote will pass with an overwhelming majority, as a great many Republican Members will ‘’jump on the bandwagon’’. In short, they will ‘’join the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands.’’

With the anticipated release of the Epstein Files, the names of a great many men, all of whom are supremely rich, many of them multi billionaires, some highly respected, will be made public. These are the men who allegedly raped a great many underage girls, children. 

At that point, we can expect the ‘’flood gates to open’’, to state it in popular terms. The working people will demand justice, for the girls who were so terribly abused. The government, led by Trump, will continue to ‘’distract, delay and deflect’’, as a means of protecting the ruling class of monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie. As the working class is in very powerful, revolutionary motion, this could well lead to a full scale insurrection. The Second American Revolution.

I can only hope that the facts presented, in this article, will motivate a great many middle class intellectuals, those who are aware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin, to ‘’join the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands.’’ They can then share this awareness with the working class, the proletariat.

The forthcoming Insurrection is bound to lead to a successful Scientific Socialist Revolution, in that the existing state apparatus is bound to be smashed, and replaced with a different state apparatus, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. At that time, there will be a huge demand for skilled engineers, scientists and administrators. Such individuals will be paid accordingly.

By contrast, those who support the monopoly capitalists, the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, and fight the transition to a state of Scientific Socialism, can expect to become a target of the Revolution. Such misguided souls may well end up in the same remote work camp, with their former lords and masters, performing the same manual labour. The choice is yours. Choose wisely.

With Most Fraternal Communist Greetings

Gerald McIsaac