I have said several times in
recent years that there has never been a proletarian revolution in history,
much less a successful one, and that Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Hoxha, Ho
Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, and others jumped the gun in an odd sort of way by
leading revolutions based upon the only major revolutionary class available,
the peasantry, with the
Party leading and the proletariat assisting. The current upheaval in
Argentina, however, is quite different and portends the genuine proletarian
worldwide revolutions yet to come. What is presently occurring in Argentina
possesses all the earmarks of what mankind can expect to see in this century--a
proletariat subjected to unemployment, high prices, low wages, rising unpayable
debts, foreclosures, bankruptcies, destroyed savings, and insecurity.
In the risings yet to
come the world's capitalists will face millions of proletarians and not millions
of peasants and that will transfer the entire enterprise into a whole new
dimension. Argentina will calm down because American capitalists will
ship in sufficient funds through their various puppet organizations to buy-off
the anger, but the bourgeoisie are only adding more weight to the lid on
a kettle whose pressure continues to rise. The proletarian revolutions
predicted by Marx and Engels lie in the future, not the past, and early signs
thereof appear to be coming to the fore.