Who gets the Revolution?

I wonder who gets the ideas of Lenin and revolution better sometimes.

I understand Lenin to advocate a bottom up revolution. There is the vanguard that educates the workers/masses and builds up the movement so that at the right time, they set the revolution in motion and power changes hands.

If I understand the Russian Revolution correctly, Lenin had the parallel government set up before October, so that when the revolution started, he had a power structure in place to help the Bolsheviks. I know this is a rather simplistic statement on the revolutionary structure, but for the purpose of a blog, it suffices.

Who gets that idea here in America?

The capitalists via the Republican Party.

While the Democrats mindlessly waste time trying to hold onto power in Washington DC, the Republicans are working to seize power at the local and state levels.

Read the Powell Memo for some eye opening plans and ideas.

Their “revolutionary leadership?” ALEC – The American Legislative Exchange Council. Read up on them and their work on the Center for Media and Democracy web site and ALEC Exposed. Some great research there. If only the media would report on it.

Except that conservatives have rewritten the media ownership rules and basically own the print and broadcast media (TV, radio, satellite, newspapers, and magazines, and Internet Service Providers).

In any event, ALEC writes model legislation that they get their Republican and conservative/corporate Democrats to introduce at the local and state level. It becomes law and now we have back door corporate rule.

Republican controlled state governments redraw gerrymandered voting districts every 10 years to keep themselves in power and push blacks, Hispanics, and other majority-minority groups into districts where their power is diluted into near powerlessness.

I just read an article in In These Times that shows how the Republicans and Democrats have introduced enough proposals for a Constitutional Convention on a “balanced budget amendment” that they are about 1 state short of the goal. If it gets that far and succeeds (via voter disenfranchisement laws) then the budget will be balanced on the backs of the poor instead of eliminating the corporate welfare state and overly expensive (and extremely useless) military budget.

I know the idea/analysis needs some more work and hashing out, but I think we on the real left have our work cut out for us.

We can't count on the compromising reformist Democrats to help us. Look at how far Presidents Clinton and Obama have sold us down the river.

So lets roll up our sleeves and start pulling the curtain on the wizards that are hiding behind it.

It's time to outsmart a smart ALEC and put them out of power.