“A proletarian revolution is a social revolution in which the working class attempts to overthrow the bourgeoisie. Proletarian revolutions are generally advocated by socialists, communists and most anarchists.”

The world is bearing witness to the proletarian revolution taking shape in America, as protests over the malicious murder of George Floyd by a white police officer have turned to riots as civil unrest grows by the hour.

The United States of America have a long and ugly history of being anything but united. Their very start came from waging war in order to separate themselves from the British Empire. They left perceived tyranny in search of freedom and fought and died for independence.

They settled with slaves in toe, on ships from Africa, chained, caged and confined, and treated like animals or property. It took some time but Abraham Lincoln, as the President of the United States, waged war on the Confederacy and the notion that “Negros” were not equal under the law. Slavery was abolished and Lincoln was assassinated because of it.

The Civil War was started initially to unite the States, but would later be regarded as a war waged for the rights of all men, even though over 150 years after the end of the American Civil War black lives still don’t seem to matter in the “United” States.

America is divided, there’s absolutely no question, no illusion. The divider in chief is Donald Trump.

The world has been watching as the divide has widened over decades and even centuries.

In World War I the Americans showed up to save the day, late in the day, but they managed to put a temporary halt to hostilities on the world stage. When World War II broke out in Europe, the Americans didn’t get involved until they got Pearl Harbored by the Japanese Empire and then subsequently had Hitler declare war on them. They showed up and bolstered the Allied attack to see the end of Hitler and the Nazi reign of terror, and answered the Pearl Harbor attack by introducing the world to the atomic age, by dropping two atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, thus ending the Second World War.

Now the whole world looked to the United States of America as THE world’s superpower, though the Soviet Union and China would be sure to have their own say on matters, and that say was the stockpiling of nuclear weaponry.

The Cold War saw panic grip the world as innocent children were drilled on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack.

Vietnam saw the Americans involve themselves in a political and armed dispute between North and South Vietnamese, a dispute that cost more lives and more lies than the public knew what to do with.

More and more Americans were waking up to the fact they they had been lied to and unrest seemed to have reached a new high among the American public. Veterans who fought in Vietnam threw away their war medals in protest of what was happening, both at home and abroad. Riots hit the streets in many American cities, similar to scenes we’re seeing today.

The Civil Rights Movement in the 60s was a movement for human rights, and the most involved leaders were African American. Protests began peacefully and escalated to riots and violence at a time where public trust was fragile. Assassinations were the end to many a public figure, but bullets didn’t end the movements or silence the message.

September 11th, 2001. Terrorism grips America and war is waged in its name. Then Americans learn that they’ve been lied to once again; that the war wasn’t quite in the name of terrorism, rather the oil fields in possession of authoritarian Saddam Hussein. The flames of hatred were stoked, again, this time in the direction of Arabs and Muslims. Stories were spun and it was decided that “weapons of mass destruction” would be the reason for waging war in the Middle East, but Saddam Hussein didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction, he had access to the oil fields that would have seen him be too powerful and commercially wealthy for America’s liking. More American lives lost at the cost of leader’s lies.

Contempt breeds contempt. As people learn that they’ve been lied to, they often work to figure out the breadth and depth of those lies and if they can’t learn those details, they settle on contempt for the liars. Liar in chief these days is Donald Trump.

Lies lead to a very human desire to find answers, to find truth. When people find a suggestion that they’ve been misled, there tends to be a trail that leads to truth. That trail, however, is usually blocked by obstacles that take great effort and great expense to expose. Those obstacles usually come in the form of lies and disinformation, and often straight discrimination. Donald Trump has waged war on truth.

When answers to questions are too “politically correct”, other questions start reveal themselves. When “politically correct” responses are given time and time again, responses that don’t actually address crucial questions, those asking questions feel slighted. The more slighted one feels and the more marginalized they become, their level of distrust grows.

“Black lives matter”

A statement that has been ringing loudly throughout news and social media, yet seemingly ignored by those in power. It’s being chanted in the streets the world over.

How many black lives have been lost because of inequality in America? The systematic racism in America is older than its independence from the British. How many protests-turned-riots have there been due to civil unrest or outrage that only got the Band-Aid treatment and repeated itself generation after generation?

I know there is a number, but the reality is that one was too many.

Politicians use law enforcement as one of their many shields against systematic change, so when the proletariat rise up in protest against the status quo they’re shut down by the long arm of the law.

Oppress, oppress, oppress. It’s not only black lives that are oppressed. People from all walks of life face oppression, though not so much those rich and powerful white men with connections and resources in abundance.

Humanity has taken a backseat to greed and capitalism. Human rights never truly find their way ahead of the almighty dollar. How can so much wealth and power be in the hands of so few?

Inequality. Something white men of privledge couldn’t (and many still can’t or won’t) even fathom was the suffering caused by social inequality.

Societal survival of the fittest. The poorest neighbourhoods and ghettos have been provided and discriminated against by the rich and powerful, who actively oppress minority groups of the working class in order to conserve their rich white power. Politicians of every political party, throughout the political spectrum, get money and bribes to sway legislation on every level. The affluent have the means to facilitate societal regulations with little regard for the poor and middle class.

Every effort made to establish systematic change is snuffed out by those in power whose morals and values are swayed by the right price. Politicians change their tune so often in public to appease the masses, while behind closed doors they accept bribes from institutions in order to maintain the status quo. In America, the status quo only favours those who can work the system; a system that’s broken and rarely favourable to those of a minority persuasion.

Generation after generation witness inequality and injustice on scales that incite protest on the peaceful side and riots on the more violent side. People of high moral code, like Martin Luther King Jr, lead the way to reform and meet the finish line at the barrel of an assassin’s gun, before their race has been run.

Assassination has long been the method of shutting down change before change ever takes shape, but so much of that message spreads over time and new leaders take the initiative in a very real fight for change. Groups of support gather and gain traction as the message reaches further and further, but as the numbers grow on one side, they’re met with growth in opposition to change.

African American men and women of all ages live in a society where racial inequality has been normalized in such a way that their plight has been ignored. The anger at such inequality has been building and growing exponentially in such a way that it isn’t only African Americans seeing the injustice and discrimination, it’s white people with a conscience, with morals and values that can’t sit back like their forefathers may have done.

Black lives matter and white Americans are finally standing with their brothers and sisters to add their voices to the pleas for justice and equality.

There are so many broken systems in the world that allow room for oppression, for humanity and human rights to be overlooked and for inequality to thrive.

The unrest brought on by the senseless and merciless murder of George Floyd has brought together the proletariat of all walks of life for the sake of humanity.

Each and every one of us bleeds the same colour, regardless of the colour of our skin. The rich and the poor, the gay and the straight, the black and the white, and everything in between; we are all human beings.

Hate breeds hate. The world has such an infamous relationship with hate that has shaped who we are today. America specifically has been stoking the flames of racial hatred since its founding. The Negros wanted to be seen as people while slaves to their white masters, because just like the rich and powerful oppressors, they are red blooded human beings.

Atrocities perpetrated on African American human beings over hundreds of years in America must surely be a crime against humanity. How many slaves were thrown to the front lines during the Civil War? Minorities in the two World Wars? Vietnam? Afghanistan?

The Nazis were charged with Crimes Against Humanity for their genocide of European Jews during the Second World War. Those Jews were slaves, they were starved, and when death came it was a welcomed release from the hell they had been living. Six million died in little less than seven years. It’s deemed the single worst atrocity in the history of man by the winners of the World Wars, but the victors decide how history is written.

What about the treatment of African Americans?

First their oppressors were masters, slave owners and traders, then when the Negro wanted freedom from slavery they were hunted and persecuted brutally. The Ku Klux Klan made sport of hatred while hiding their identities behind infamous white hoods and holding stations in high society, without their hoods, responsible for the oppression and the legislation to make it legal. Crimes Against Humanity, surely.

Americans hate what they don’t understand. Differences are enough for those with ignorant views of the world to hate without valid cause or reason. When the ones with those ignorant and short-sighted worldviews are the powerful and wealthy, the outcome is oppressive. Lining their wallets and bank accounts are far more important than helping those living lives of oppression. Donald Trump is such a man. His world view is that of an authoritarian. Donald Trump is the bourgeoisie and everything that represents the broken systems holding the proletariat down. Donald Trump’s America is one where the rich get richer and more powerful and the poor just have to deal with it.

Injustice. Miscarriage of justice. Lack of accountability. Misinformation. Disinformation.

Look at Donald Trump’s America. His war on truth and everything that opposes his unrealistic view of the world serves up lies, contempt, hate, discrimination, and ignorance like no President before him. He has divided America in such a way that the masses have taken to the streets during a global pandemic in outrage after the latest atrocity in 400 years of oppression.

Protests only work when the other side can hear the message of the protest. How many protests are required to get the lawmakers to listen? When there is an unwillingness to listen, the impatient turn to violence in their frustration. Riots happen. Vandalism happens. Looting happens.

Disorganization in the face of oppression leads to offshoots of chaos and criminal retribution.

The proletariat revolution requires organization in order to be most effective. Organizing in order to mobilize the masses takes planning. Reckless rioting and looting has the opposite effect of what’s intended, when what’s intended is change. That’s why clashes often turn violent. Agitators find their ways to disrupt the message from the masses and distract the masses from the point. Outside groups infiltrate peaceful protests in order to sow discord and are usually successful.

However, the frustration caused by centuries and generations of systematic racism has surely hit fever pitch. It’s unbearable to African Americans, and it’s unbearable to human beings of conscience, empathy, sympathy, and decency.

American Civil War: take two.

It’s inevitable, but the working class needs to come together for the sake of humanity and the rights owed to all human beings, regardless of skin colour.

The revolution need NOT be violent.

The American presidential election this coming November may very well be the most important election for the American people up to this moment in time. If the widespread oppression continues, then Donald Trump and his war on truth will remain in power, and even if he loses he’ll claim the election was fraudulent for any reason he chooses. People need to register and vote for the sake of their very livelihoods. This war on truth and fact and even science may very well see Donald Trump become the authoritarian leader he’s always wanted to be. The American people cannot let that happen, for the sake of the entire world.

There needs to be civil leadership in order to organize the masses. Leadership with morals and values, with a voice that speaks to the humanity of situation at hand.

These are truly scary times, but this could be the right time for systematic change for the countless broken systems we live within.