Revolution in America: Capitalist Domination and the Means of Resistance

Chapter 1: Class and Capital.

For as long as we can remember, America has lived off of the labour of others for the survival of capital, with multiple revolutionary groups from the Left and working class organizations trying to combat such a domination. However, these two are constantly antagonized by the oppressing class. The theories and goals of workers' freedoms, Social ownership and more are either shut down and thrashed about with lies and slander or are distorted into something completely evil. By primarily using Stalinism, Maoism, the baseless Cold War or even by using the very ideas of Capitalism and Imperialism, the oppressing class, i.e., the Bourgeoisie, distorts and omits parts of Socialism and Communism, contorting them and their schools of thought into something fully negative. With such fabrications being applied ever since the founding of the Soviet Union, it must now be the main priority of American Socialists and Communists to reveal the truth about Marx, Lenin, Socialism and Communism, note the major flaws within the previous systems that made them bureaucratic, and to bring about a new enlightenment of said ideologies. This will, consequently, require multiple quotations from multiple sources, so the text may prove a bit cumbersome, but these quotations are necessary to support the writer's claims and theories, and the quotations will also help the reader to better understand that the ideologies in question are not as bad as they once believed.

To begin, let us look at Engels's sixth edition of "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", which was written in 1894. In this, Engels says:

"The state is, by no means a power forced on society from without; just as little is it 'the reality of the ethical idea', 'the image and reality of reason', as Hegel maintains. Rather, it is a product of society at a certain stage of development; it is the admission that this society has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself, that it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is powerless to dispel. But in order that these antagonisms, these classes with conflicting economic interests, might not consume themselves and society in fruitless struggle, it became necessary to have a power, seemingly standing above society, that would alleviate the conflict and keep it within the bounds of 'order'; and this power, arisen out of society but placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more, is the state". (Pp. 177-78, sixth edition)

This text expresses very clearly the basic viewpoints of Socialism when regarding the state, which is, in our case, America. To simplify this statement, Lenin wrote in "The State and Revolution":

"The state is a product and manifestation of the irreconcilability of class antagonisms. The state arises while, when and insofar as class antagonisms objectively cannot be reconciled". (Pp. 3-4 online, Chapter 1)

It must now begin to be evident that to the Socialists and Communists, the state, i.e., the power that places itself above society and alienates itself more and more from that society, is formed only when class antagonisms are beyond reconcilable and, therefore, must require a certain form of power that acts as being above society, and soon corrupts itself and the people to maintain "order", when in reality, that power is controlling the Proletariat as a whole. This is where the distortion begins.

On one side, the Bourgeoisie and those allied with them, compelled under the weight of facts and evidence proving their ideas to be malignant, begin to either "correct" people like Marx, Engels and Lenin by saying the state is a form of reconciliation, or they lie outright and say that the Socialists or "Commie scum" are trying to take away the "freedoms and rights" that the state has "provided" them. In reality, Marx, Engels, Lenin and others viewed the state as an organ for class rule and oppression of the lower class by the ruling class, which is so methodically guised as "order", which allows such oppression to happen. Lenin goes on to explain state "order":

"Order, he wrote, legalizes and perpetuates this oppression by moderating the conflict between classes. In the opinion of the petty-bourgeois politicians, however, order means the reconciliation of classes, and not the oppression of one class by another; to alleviate the conflict means reconciling classes and not depriving the oppressed classes of means and methods of struggle to overthrow the oppressors". (Pp. 4-5 online, Chapter 1)