The Second American Revolution Second Edition

Copyright © 2021 by Gerald McIsaac.

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ISBN: 978-1-952302-82-4 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-952302-83-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-952302-84-8 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021920373

Preface

As I write this, the Covid 19 virus is raging out of control. The current American death toll, as a result of the virus, is approaching 270,000 and is expected to double within the next couple of months. The press, or at least all the major mainstream news networks, have quite gleefully reported that the federal election is over, Trump has lost, Biden is now the president elect, and Trump should quit playing golf and prepare to spend the remainder of his ‘golden years’ in a ‘correctional institution’.

Perhaps the journalists are blinded by their hatred of Trump. The man is by no means the sharpest tool in the shed, but nor is he entirely stupid. He has hired a rather impressive team of lawyers, including experts on constitutional law, and those legal eagles are almost certainly telling Trump precisely what he wants to hear. Strangely enough, it may even be the truth. The fact is that the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution makes no mention of the popular vote. It is the Electors who vote for the President, as well as the Vice President, and not the American voters. Further, those same lawyers are prepared to argue, before the Supreme Court, that the states have no right to meddle in a federal election. This is to say that any state laws which place restrictions on the Electors are not constitutional. If the Supreme Court agrees, then the current two-party system will effectively be abolished.

The fact remains that the Electors are about to vote, on December 14. Those votes will then be placed in sealed envelopes and sent to Washington, before December 23. Then on January 6, in front of the joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives, the President of the Senate, who is also the Vice President, will open each envelope and read aloud the names of the persons nominated for President and Vice President. The individuals who receive 270 votes will be the next President and Vice President, respectively. If no candidate receives the required majority, then the matter goes to the House of Representatives.

It is significant that the lawyers who work for Trump have been advising the state legislatures to nominate Electors who will vote for Trump, or at least anyone but Biden. They are advising the newly appointed Electors the same thing.

Assuming the Electors listen, many of them could end up voting for the former First Lady, or Senator Sanders, or even Senator Harris for President. The Electors refer to this as voting their conscience, and is quite possible, if not likely. Assuming that happens, it will result in a proper gong show, to put it in popular terms.

Lately the revolutionary motion has experienced a lull, at least here in North America. Yet we can expect it to rise up with a vengeance, especially if Trump is re-elected. This motion is unprecedented in its scope and magnitude. We can expect it to erupt in full scale revolution, and very soon.

Never before has a revolutionary motion on this scale been seen. What is more, it is being led by women! The discipline and dedication of these ladies are to be admired. The only thing lacking now is direction, as the uprising lacks focus. The goal of this revolutionary uprising must be scientific socialism, in the form of the Dictatorship Of the Proletariat. That is the one -and only- alternative to capitalism.

The recent protests, which have mainly been led by women and include Black Lives Matter, have been largely peaceful. The people who are taking part in this revolutionary motion are now coming together, spontaneously gravitating towards socialism. One of the most encouraging posters read:

Trump is the symptom

Capitalism is the disease

Socialism is the cure

This is absolutely correct, but as yet contains no class content. It is certainly a step in the right direction.

No doubt the revolutionary uprising has inspired a great many people to become politically active. Those who were formerly apathetic are now rising up, burning with passionate indignation. Welcome, my Brothers and Sisters, my Comrades! It is for your sake that I will explain a few basic facts, which have been hidden from you. The capitalists do not want us to be aware of any of this! Yet it is vitally important that all working people become familiar with certain scientific terms, so bear with me.

We live under a state of monopoly capitalism, referred to as imperialism, which is complete reaction. This is to say that there in nothing progressive about the capitalists. The monopoly capitalists, the billionaires, comprise a class of people who are technically referred to as the bourgeoisie. There are very few of them, or they are numerically small, to use the correct technical term, perhaps a few hundred. Yet they are the class of people who rule the country. They own the means of production, which is to say the mills, factories and mines, as well as the railroads, airlines, internet and all communications companies. They perform no useful service, merely invest their capital and demand a proper rate of return on that capital. This is to say that they skim the cream from any businesses they own.

This means that they force their workers to labour as hard as possible, while paying them as little as possible. It also means that as reactionaries, they are determined that nothing will change. That includes the schools. The history and science books are to remain the way they are. That which is written is to remain written. They run the schools the same way they run the country. No change is a recipe for disaster.

This is completely unacceptable. The classes are always in conflict, but soon that conflict will break out into open warfare. The working class, the proletariat, is rising up and challenging the rule of the capitalists, the bourgeoisie. It is necessary to overthrow that class of parasites and