Tag: imperialism

It is just over a week into the second term of the Presidency of Donald Trump, and the ‘’Oligarchy’’ has wasted no time in implementing their completely reactionary agenda, that of Project 2025.

Clearly, the ruling class of multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, have decided to change their method of rule. No more democratic republic! Americans are about to be relieved of their duty of voting in elections. A few of the wealthiest members of the bourgeoisie, each  worth hundreds of billions, have come forward to form that which is referred to as an Oligarchy, a small group of people, to run the country.

They have decided to keep Trump as their figure head President, as he is a proper stooge. In fact, he is in the ranks of Curly Howard, perhaps the finest of the Stooges!

The plan is to further impoverish the working class, the proletariat, while further enriching the monopoly capitalist class, the bourgeoisie. At the same time, the middle class, the petty bourgeois, is to be wiped out.

One of the first orders of business, was to ‘’deal with the Illegals’’. The ‘’gloves came off’’! The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, ICE, was given ‘’free rein’’. No restrictions! They are now allowed to conduct raids on schools, churches and other places of worship. If they even suspect someone of being an ‘’Illegal’’, then that individual is arrested, denied any legal representation, and deported. In direct violation of the Constitution!

Trump has also announced his intention to open the Guantanamo Bay ‘’Detention Centre’’, so that he can ‘’detain’’ up to thirty thousand people, before deporting them. 

The mainstream press is also reporting that Trump just fired at least fifteen Inspectors General, in that which they are referring to as the ‘’Friday Midnight Massacre’’. That same bourgeois press is also reporting that such a firing is illegal, as by law, the President is required to give the Congress, thirty days notice. So much for the ‘’rule of law’’!

In addition, wide spread ‘’chaos and confusion’’ was created, immediately after the White House issued a ‘’vague memo’’, to ‘’temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all federal financial assistance’’, that could ‘’conflict with President Donald Trump’s agenda’’. Whatever that means!

The effect was to create a ‘’federal funding freeze’’, on all ‘’federal grants and loans’’, to ‘’as many as twenty six hundred programs, within the federal government’’. This includes such programs as providing food for the Seniors, school lunches for children, food banks, food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid. An attack on the poorest, most vulnerable segments of the population! All because such programs could ‘’conflict with President Donald Trump’s agenda’’, according to a Spokesperson for the White House.

She is so right! 

The ‘’agenda’’ of Donald Trump, is to further impoverish the working class, by cutting any and all social programs, while at the same time, further enriching the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, with tax cuts.

The Seniors and school children can go hungry! No food stamps for the poor! Let the food banks run dry! No medical services for those who cannot afford it! No shelter for the homeless! Cut expenses! No mercy!

At the same time, the middle class is to be wiped out. All businesses which are Too Small To Succeed- all but five, including General Motors!- are about to ‘’go the way of the dodo bird’’! Monopoly capitalism! Imperialism at its finest!

In this way, the government will make it possible to reduce taxes on the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie. Allowing them to become ever more wealthy, ever more powerful! That is the ‘’agenda’’ of Donald Trump!

This gave rise to a ‘’huge push back’’, as the mainstream press so ineloquently phrased it. In fact, there was a nation wide uproar, with opposition coming from various segments of the population. 

As many as twenty two states immediately challenged this memo, in federal court, and the Judge issued a ‘’temporary stay’’, at least until February 3.

In response to this, the White House issued a statement which ‘’rescinds the memo ordering the federal funding freeze’’, although she was careful to add that ‘’this is not a rescindment of the actual federal freeze, just the memo itself’’. Whatever that means!

Even a leading Senator spoke out against these federal cuts: ‘’Though the Trump administration failed in this tactic, it’s no secret that they will try to find another, and when they do, it will again be Senate Democrats there to call it out, fight back, defend American families. The big question is Medicaid. The White House was not clear whether that was part of the freeze, with 72 million people affected. This is the first win for Democrats in the new Trump era, the party of the middle class’’.

This Senator is correct when he states that, although the Trump administration ‘’failed in this tactic’’, they will no doubt ‘’try to find another’’. 

Not that this was a ‘’win for Democrats’’. It was the mass movement, the revolutionary motion, that stopped these cuts. The Senator merely took credit for this. In fact, both mainstream political parties serve the same class of monopoly capitalists, the bourgeoisie.

This was quickly followed by another White House memo, one which ‘’encourages millions of federal workers to resign’’. Those who choose to ‘’accept the offer’’, are being promised eight months pay, as a reward. Those who choose not to resign, are being threatened with being fired.

There is only one little hitch. The President has no authority to make such an offer! Those federal workers who resign, can expect to receive nothing! Trump is merely doing that which he does best. Lying!

It is to the credit of the leaders of the Labour Unions involved, that they are letting their members know the truth. Most of these Union members are determined to fight Trump, to fight for their democratic rights. The power of Unions!

The aforementioned is a sampling of the damage that Trump has wrought, within a mere few days of taking office. All branches of the federal government are at a near stand still. The heads of each branch, including the military, seem incapable of making a decision. They are afraid that any decision they do make, will result in their dismissal.

The mass movement against this attack, on the American democratic republic, commonly referred to as the ‘’Opposition to the Oligarchy’’, is now very broad based. It includes a great many members of the middle class, those who are concerned with defending our democratic rights. Those people are our allies, on this one particular issue.

When I use the word ‘’our’’, I am referring to all Socialists, whether Independent Socialists or Scientific Socialists.

The strongest supporters of capitalism, as well as of the democratic republic, tend to be middle class intellectuals, as the middle class is the most patriotic class. This places them in the rather strange position of defending the democratic republic, which the bourgeoisie is determined to destroy! While at the same time, defending the bourgeoisie! Duh!

This in no way changes the fact, that these middle class intellectuals are our allies, on this one particular subject. That of defending our democratic republic. Truly, ‘’politics makes for strange bed fellows’’!

Yet it is best to not expect too much from such people. As Lenin pointed out, ‘’even the most intelligent members of the bourgeoisie have become muddled, and they cannot help committing irreparable errors. That, in fact, is what will bring about the downfall of the bourgeoisie’’. 

By contrast, the vast majority of Independent Socialists do not defend the bourgeoisie. They tend to be honest, concerned citizens, but labouring under the influence of the bourgeois ideology. For that reason, they tend to think that socialism may be a ‘’good idea’’, but simply ‘’not about to happen’’.

This is an example of bourgeois ideology, which Marx refers to as ‘’spiritual power’’, having an influence over people. This spiritual power is every bit as real, as that referred to as the ‘’physical force elements of repression’’. The only difference is that the ‘’spiritual power’’ is invisible, and for that reason, in my opinion, is far more dangerous. 

Allow me to stress the fact that all too many middle class, intelligent,  intellectual, Independent Socialists, are under the influence of this bourgeois ideology, this ‘’spiritual power’’. Largely without being aware of this!

To those people, my Comrades In Arms, I can only suggest that you ‘’break the invisible bonds’’! Feel free to face the fact that the bourgeois are liars! Further face the fact that both Marx and Lenin were Scientific Socialists! 

Marx examined society from a scientific standpoint! That included, but was not limited to, capitalism! Marx then proved, that capitalism would give birth to Socialism! Marx further proved that, after the revolution, after the proletariat seizes political power, the completely reactionary class of bourgeoisie, would have to be crushed, smashed, under Scientific Socialism, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

Just as Marx predicted, early competitive capitalism evolved into monopoly capitalism, at around the beginning of the twentieth century. The capitalists of the time, knew that something had changed. They did not understand these changes, and really did not care. They just knew that their profits had increased dramatically, or as they phrased it, they were ‘’making money hand over fist’’. This new stage of capitalism, they referred to as ‘’imperialism’’.  

It was Lenin, another Scientific Socialist, who ‘’followed in the footsteps’’ of Marx. He examined capitalism in its ‘’new and latest’’ stage, that of monopoly, referred to as imperialism. He determined that imperialism is not the ‘’latest’’ stage of capitalism, but the highest stage of capitalism! He documented this supremely well in his landmark work, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. 

Lenin also determined that, while early, competitive capitalism has certain progressive features, such is not the case of monopoly capitalism, imperialism. As he phrased it, ‘’Imperialism is reaction, right down the line’’!

I mention this, for the sake of my Comrades In Arms, those who consider themselves to be Independent Socialists, which is to say, Utopian Socialists. They are people of principle, capable of honesty, unlike the monopoly capitalists. Such people can face the fact that the multi billionaires are making a supreme effort to starve the Seniors, as well as children of poor people, deprive the poor of medical assistance, further impoverish all working people, in order to further enrich their class, the bourgeoisie.

That same class of people, also take great delight in slandering all Scientific Socialists, also known as Marxist Leninists, or Communists. With good reason, I may add! We are their bitterest enemies! Determined to overthrow them, during a revolution, and then crush them, under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat! The worst nightmare of every imperialist!

In particular, American Independent Socialists should be well aware that revolutions happen. After all, it was the ‘’Revolutionary War’’ which gave rise to the United States! So to say that ‘’nothing good ever came from any revolution’’, is to deny the American Revolution!

Contrary to what the ‘’Oligarchy’’ would have you believe, a Second American Revolution is about to take place. 

Just as a ‘’popular uprising’’ took place in 1776, in opposition to the rule of the British Crown, which did not represent the Colonials, so too, a second uprising is about to take place, in opposition to the bourgeoisie, which also does not represent Americans.

In contrast to the First American Revolution, which was led mainly by the ‘’propertied classes’’, the Second American Revolution will be led by the working class, the proletariat. For that reason, the outcome will be somewhat different.

As I have pointed out in a previous article, the forthcoming Socialist Revolution will result in the collapse of the American Empire. The continental United States will break up into a number of separate, Independent, Socialist, Council Republics. Three such republics have already taken shape. These include seven states on the east coast, three states on the west coast, and seven states in the midwest, the industrial heartland of the country.

I use the word ‘’Council’’, which translates to Soviet in Russian, for a reason. In 1917, the Soviets spontaneously appeared in Russia, in time for the Great October Soviet Socialist Revolution. 

So too, these Soviets, or Councils, have also spontaneously appeared in America. Just as these Soviets took power in Russia, after the Revolution, so too, the American Councils will also take power, after the forthcoming American Revolution.

If I can be excused for pointing out the obvious, allow me to state that the next American Revolution is about to replace imperialism, monopoly capitalism, with Scientific Socialism!

All Independent Socialists are welcome to take part in this historic event. First, face the fact that you are under the influence of the bourgeois ideology, the spiritual power, of the bourgeoisie. Break those ‘’invisible bonds’’! To paraphrase Rosa Luxembourg, ‘’you have nothing to lose but your chains’’! Embrace the revolutionary theories of Scientific Socialism! Transform yourself into a Scientific Socialist!

The working class, the proletariat, is not ‘’class conscious’’, aware of itself as a class. It is certainly not aware of the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin. Nor is it aware of the fact that it is destined to over throw the monopoly capitalist class, the bourgeoisie. This awareness has to come from an ‘’outside source’’. In other words,  middle class, intellectual, Scientific Socialists. You are that ‘’outside source’’!

Now is not the time to be shy! If nothing else, encourage your middle class attorney friends, especially those who are experts in Constitutional law, to challenge the 2024 ‘’Presidential Election’’, on the grounds that it was Unconstitutional. In direct violation of the Twelfth Amendment! Trump is a fraudulent President! Vance is a fraudulent Vice President! Act now, before it is too late! Before the democratic republic is completely destroyed!

My Friends, much as I regret putting this burden on your shoulders,  I can see no other way of stopping the Oligarchy from seizing power. 

The working class is about to rise up, to overthrow the monopoly capitalists, with the Oligarchy at their head, in an Insurrection. Yet without the proper direction, this Insurrection could fail. Working people need leaders! Proper leaders! Leaders who will provide the proper direction! That proper direction lies in smashing the existing state apparatus, and crushing the monopoly capitalists, under a state of Scientific Socialism, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

I just received an email, which I have chosen to use, in order to close this article. It is posted under, We the People, Under Siege:

‘’So ICE set up a hotline where people can call to report undocumented immigrants. But they had to shut it down yesterday because over 90 percent of the calls were reporting (the richest man in America)’’. 

May I suggest that the other ten percent were reporting the First Lady! Clearly, their days are numbered!

On January 15, 2025, President Joe Biden gave his ‘’Farewell Address to the Nation’’. As a great many working people were watching this ‘’Farewell Speech’’, and were very likely confused, this calls for an explanation. 

One of the professional narrators referred to this speech as being very ‘’dark’’, as it refers to an ‘’oligarchy taking shape in America’’. She mentioned that Biden is of the opinion that this oligarchy, has given rise to a ‘’dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people’’.

That is one way of putting it! The lengths some people will go to, in order to avoid any reference to the existence of classes!

True, an American oligarchy does exist. By definition, this is a ‘’small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution’’. This ‘’small group of people’’, which controls the country of America, are composed of a very few ‘’ultra wealthy people’’, as President Biden so delicately phrased it. This is to say that those people have wealth in the tens and hundreds of billions! Even that is not enough! They want more! They want to be trillionaires!

It should be noted that middle class people are well aware of this, as they are class conscious. It is working class people, proletarians, who are not aware of this, as conditions of life, of the proletariat, do not lead to the awareness of themselves, as a class, with their own class interests. 

As that is the case, and as I am mainly concerned with the working class, I should mention that the industrial revolution gave birth to two new classes. At that time, the merchants who lived in town, referred to as ‘’burghers’’, saw an opportunity to invest their money, and make a great fortune. They succeeded, beyond their wildest dreams!

In the process of investing their money, the name ‘’burgher’’ became transformed to ‘’bourgeois’’. At the same time, their money, or wealth in any other form, became known as ‘’capital’’. For that reason, the bourgeois also became known as ‘’capitalists’’, a name they generally hate, for some reason. They prefer to refer to themselves as ‘’entrepreneurs’’.

On the one hand, these freshly minted capitalists invested their money in building factories, mills, mines and such. This is now referred to as the ‘’point of production’’. They also invested in railroads and shipping lines, or the ‘’means of transportation’’. And of course, there were the banks, or ‘’financial institutions’’, possibly the most profitable of all investments. 

But then, as no class can live in isolation, a second class of people was created. This class, which has nothing to sell but their labour power, is referred to as the ‘’antipode’’ to the capitalist class. They are referred to as the working class, or ‘’proletariat’’. A second revolutionary class! And in fact, the only class that is consistently revolutionary!

The capitalists who are now referred to as the ‘’ultra rich’’, or ‘’monopoly capitalists’’, those with at least tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions, are now referred to as the ‘’bourgeoisie’’. 

By contrast, those with a paltry few million, or even a ‘’mere’’ billion or two, are referred to as ‘’middle class’’ or ‘’petty bourgeois’’. As the monopolies become ever stronger, ever more complete, the middle class is gradually being wiped out. Those few survivors, of the middle class, are now ‘’living on borrowed time’’. 

There is a reason that I mention this. It is important for the working people to learn certain technical terms. If we are not aware of this, then the capitalists will use our lack of knowledge against us.

It should be noted that the newly created, revolutionary capitalist class, turned into its opposite, completely ‘’reactionary’’, at the point when capitalism reached the stage of monopoly. This happened at about the beginning of twentieth century. This monopoly capitalism, the ‘’highest stage of capitalism’’, is technically referred to as ‘’imperialism’’. 

Even the highly respected, self proclaimed ‘’Independent Socialist’’, Senator Sanders, is now issuing warnings against the ‘’American oligarchy’’, rather than against the American bourgeoisie. Yet to refer to them as an ‘’oligarchy’’, is an improvement over the term which was common place during the Occupy Movement, of recent memory. At that time, they were referred to as the ‘’one percent’’. If nothing else, the word ‘’oligarchy’’ is a bit more accurate. A step in the right direction!

It is significant that President Biden does not write his own speeches. Instead, he has a professional writer compose his speeches. Biden merely recites those speeches, reading from a tele prompter. As he is very likely suffering from dementia, that is probably the best he can manage.

From the text, it is clear that the ‘’handlers’’ of Biden are concerned with the fact that the ‘’oligarchs’’ are about to seize power. This shows a certain democratic sense, on their part. They are concerned that the ”American Empire” is about to collapse. Their concerns are well grounded!

This fear is quite wide spread, among middle class intellectual narrators. Indeed, some are comparing this to the situation within the Roman Empire, at the time when Rome ceased to be a Republic, and instead, became a Dictatorship. It was the beginning of the end of the Roman Empire. 

It is reasonable to expect a certain number of these middle class, somewhat progressive intellectuals, to see the ‘’writing on the wall’’, and to ‘’jump ship’’. It is clear that monopoly capitalism has ‘’had its day’’. There is no point in even attempting to ‘’patch it up’’, as Biden suggested. It is beyond repair.

In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels foretold this:

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

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

Without doubt, the ‘’class struggle’’ is now near the ‘’decisive hour’’. The suffering of the working class is at appalling levels. Countless people are homeless, the more ‘’fortunate’’ living in cars. Drug overdoses are widespread. Gang violence has led to mass shootings, almost on a daily basis. The police have been reduced to documenting the slaughter. Unemployment is epidemic, as there are simply no jobs. A sense of despair is the rule, not the exception. And the wealth of the multi billionaires, the bourgeoisie, is sky rocketing!

That is the very definition of a revolutionary situation! Now we can expect a ‘’small section of the ruling class to cut itself adrift, and join the revolutionary class, the class that holds the future in its hands’’. 

It is only reasonable to expect that this ‘’small section’’, will be among the most intelligent of the intellectuals. As the bourgeoisie is determined to wipe out the middle class, they have no future under capitalism. On the other hand, they have a bright future under Scientific Socialism, in the form of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Their skills in organization and administration will be in high demand. They will be paid accordingly.

To those middle class, somewhat progressive, more intelligent intellectuals, I have a little word of unsolicited advice. Act now! Do not wait for the ‘’axe to fall’’! Trump and his ‘’buddies’’ -the three richest men in the country!- are determined to ‘’force the issue’’! To provoke an uprising! Revolution!

Among other things, they plan to deport all illegal immigrants, along with their children, including those who were born in America! Even though such children are American citizens by birth, according to the Constitution, that makes no difference. As far as Trump and his ‘’ultra rich buddies’’ are concerned, the Constitution is a mere scrap of paper!

Further bear in mind that Trump recently told his supporters to vote for him, one last time! As soon as he is sworn into office, he fully intends to set himself up as ‘’President For Life’’! Dictator!

It has been suggested that Trump was ‘’merely joking’’. True, the man does have a sense of humour. His idea of being ‘’funny’’, involves mocking those who are physically or mentally handicapped! Take him at his word! He means what he says!

The collapse of the ‘’American Empire’’, is the least of your worries! That is a given! Of far more concern, is the attack on the democratic rights of all Americans!

Trump thinks that he can do whatever he wants, and get away with it. After all, he has been doing precisely that, all his life. Thirty four felony convictions, and no penalty! Who can blame him for thinking that way?

Yet Trump is about to receive a ‘’rude awakening’’! Americans are prepared to take only so much! They have a proud history of revolution! In fact, their country was founded on revolution! They call it the Revolutionary War! A Second Revolutionary War is about to take place! Donald Trump is about to learn, that which King George learned, many years ago!

At that time, the American Revolutionaries treated the ‘’Loyalists’’, those who supported King George, to the rather uncivilized practice of ‘’tar and feathers’’. This public humiliation, of those referred to as ‘’Tories’’, served to break the power, the ‘’spiritual bonds’’, of those people. It is entirely possible that such techniques will be used, once again, in the forth coming revolution. 

Time is not on our side! Trump and his ‘’ultra rich buddies’’, seem determined to ‘’force the issue’’! So be it! Embrace the revolutionary theories of Marx and Lenin! Bring this awareness to the working class! Take part in Councils! Train, arm and equip the members of those Councils! Be active! Do not wait for the multi billionaires to drive you into bankruptcy, and the ranks of the proletariat!

As well, do not neglect your intellectual friends. Encourage them to also become active. Challenge the 2024 ‘’Presidential Election’’, on Constitutional grounds. Fight the bourgeoisie on various ‘’fronts’’. Give them no peace!

Your correspondence should also contain certain expressions, which may become slogans:

Prepare For Insurrection!

Scientific Socialism!

Dictatorship of the Proletariat!

Revolution!