America on the Brink of a Socialist Upheaval

By Alexander G. Markovsky 

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In December 1991, as the world witnessed the dramatic collapse of the communist empire, few imagined that the doctrines of Marx and Lenin would endure, let alone reemerge. Yet Marxism adapted to a new reality and, in a striking twist of history, found fresh footing in the United States—this time within the Democratic Party.

Although Marxism’s strategic aim remained the same, its methods underwent a fundamental transformation. The new approach sought to achieve in the United States—gradually and democratically—what Russian Bolshevism had carried out abruptly and violently in 1917.

Why was the new strategy necessary? Karl Marx envisioned the proletariat—the industrial working class—as the indispensable engine of socialist revolution. Because the proletariat’s constant struggle for higher wages and better conditions was, in Marx’s view, the mechanism by which history would turn from capitalism to socialism.

But in the United States, the proletariat—those organized masses of working people who, as Marx put it, had “nothing to lose but their chains”— ceased to exist decades ago. Capitalism has converted them into bourgeoisie — a middle class. They are homeowners with two?car garages, retirement accounts, and children headed for college. This people would not volunteer for a revolution.

Indeed, it’s been said that revolutions are made by idealists, psychopaths, and proletarians. We have plenty of idealists, no shortage of psychopaths, but where were the Democrats supposed to find proletarians? They attempted to use non-working people who had “nothing to lose” to stoke street violence and resurrect an appearance of proletarians. Acting in a predictable ethical and moral fashion consistent with Marxist dialectical materialism, Democrats created the “Occupy Wall Street” movement in 2011.

“Our task,” wrote Lenin in 1902 in What Is to Be Done, “is to utilize every manifestation of discontent, and to collect and utilize every grain of rudimentary protest.” Indeed, if you want to change a society, here is Lenin’s script: cause the problem. Spread the misery. Send a cadre of professional community organizers to unite all of the angry and disinherited spirits to fuel an organized revolt. Entice chaos and violence. Exploit chaos for larger political objectives.

Predictably, this premeditated unrest imitating Mao’s Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution failed miserably. Instead of storming the bulwarks of bourgeois institutions of power such as banks and corporations, as real revolutionaries would be expected to do, they were more interested in drugs and easy sex than presidential politics. After urinating on the streets of American cities and creating riots accompanied by vandalism and confrontations with police, the militant movement became an embarrassment for the Democrats. Subsequently, after spending a great deal of money on police overtime, cleaning the streets, and restoring damaged property, this organized banditry had to be quietly shut down.

Undeterred, Democrats turned to a different source of potential support: people who did have something to lose and would therefore fight fiercely to protect it. Their solution was to promote illegal immigration. The strategy was to change the nation’s demographics by weakening border enforcement and relaxing immigration laws, ensuring a steady influx of Latino and Muslim immigrants.

The underlying premise of this approach was straightforward: offer newcomers welfare benefits, free health care, public education for their children, and eventually a path to citizenship—creating a reliable voting bloc aligned with Democratic interests. In addition, they established a special protected status through so?called sanctuary cities, which, became plagued by drugs and crime because local police and courts declined to prosecute illegal residents.

The Democrats have imported millions of illegal aliens. During a drive from San Diego to Houston along Interstate 10 in 2023, the author observed firsthand that every hotel along roughly a 100?mile stretch East and West of El Paso—including luxury brands such as JW Marriott—had been fully booked by the government to accommodate newly arrived immigrants.

To widen its support base and ensure the triumph of socialism in America, the Democrats are in the process of dismantling the established constitutional order by offering suffrage to foreigners. Backing up this malicious concept, some states, such as California, have been automatically registering illegal aliens to vote when they obtain or renew a driver’s license. Indeed, the Democrats are vehemently against voter IDs and cleaning the voter rolls. Consequently, we should anticipate, as it has been the case historically with the socialists, that fraud will be used as the most effective weapon in their political arsenal.

As Gus Hall, former General Secretary of the Communist Party USA, prophetically stated in 1996, “Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.” While the Democratic Party was in the process of making it a tumultuous reality, the disaster struck—Donald Trump was elected President of the United States.

Trump recognized that not all of Mexico, Central America, and South America had poured across the open borders into Texas, Arizona, and California—and Minnesota had not yet annexed to the possession of Islam. He closed the border, stopped the invasion, and began the mass deportation of the illegals. He derailed the momentum and reshaped the course of events. The socialists responded, as they always do – with organized revolt.

The intensity of the escalating turmoil in Minnesota, coupled with similar developments across other Democrat?run states and cities, underscores the lengths to which Democrats are willing to go to shield their constituency and preserve their political foothold.

Trump’s central challenge is that a devoted Marxist Barack Obama, during his tenure, systematically filled many pivotal posts across the executive and judicial branches—federal and state alike—with individuals who shared his ideological convictions. From this perspective, he managed to convert the Democratic Party into a socialist cartel – a tightly controlled apparatus united by the ideology. By attempting to remove illegal aliens Trump is depriving the Democratic Party of its most steadfast constituencies. With roughly half of the states now governed by Democrats, Trump, who seeks to reverse the rampant socialist current, risks a political confrontation approaching the scale of internal upheaval.

Nevertheless, if order cannot be restored by peaceful means, it must be imposed by force.

Alexander G. Markovsky, Ph.D. in economics and political science, is a senior fellow at the London Center for Policy Research. He is the author of “Anatomy of a Bolshevik” and “Liberal Bolshevism: America Did Not Defeat Communism, She Adopted It.” Mr. Markovsky is the owner and CEO of Litwin Management Services, LLC. He can be reached at alexander.g.markovsky@gmai.com