World Socialist Revolution

By Gerald McIsaac

The Socialist Revolution is now raging around the World. In numerous countries, the working people, the peasants and proletarians, are about to overthrow the ruling class of capitalists, the billionaires, the bourgeoisie, and establish a Socialist Republic. The Revolution can be successful, only if the working people are aware of the Revolutiona

• Language: English
• Publisher: Parchment Global Publishing
• Release date: Feb 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9781959483380

Gerald McIsaac

Gerald McIsaac is a working class intellectual, a theoretical scientist, inventor and the author of several books, of which Bird From Hell, Fourth Edition, is the most famous. He is convinced of the existence of numerous prehistoric animals, which the scientists swear to be extinct. McIsaac is also convinced that the scientists are well aware of the existence of these animals, and equally well aware that some of these animals prey upon people, mainly women and children. Yet the scientists choose to remain silent, in order to protect their careers. This is a natural result of the system of capitalism, in which the capitalists are determined that nothing must change. The system of capitalism must be overthrown, replaced by scientific socialism.

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History

2023.01.09

Contents

Chapter 1

The Industrial Revolution and the Creation of New Revolutionary Classes

Chapter 2

Concerning the Ukraine War and Nuclear Weapons

Chapter 3

Midterm Elections Countdown

Chapter 4

Inflation and the Economy

Chapter 5

Government Gridlock

Chapter 6

Presidential Election of 2024

Chapter 7

The Absurdity of Inclusive Capitalism

Chapter 8

Eve of Revolution

Chapter 9

World Socialist Revolution

Chapter 1O

World Socialist Republic

Chapter 11

Freedom Convoy 2023

Chapter 12

Trump Facing Possible Criminal Charges

Chapter 1

The Industrial Revolution and the Creation of New Revolutionary Classes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses however, this one distinctive feature: it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: bourgeois and proletariat.

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

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

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

The Communist Manifesto goes on to state:

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

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

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

"The bourgeoisie, historically, has played a most revolutionary part.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Communist Manifesto goes into this in more detail:

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

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

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

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

‘’The weapons with which the bourgeoisie felled