The JGM Show

We examine the origins of "Aladdin" and revise it.

We examine a full reading of chapter three of Lenin's State and Revolution and dive into an empirical example of the dictatorship of the proletariat in action, as the workers seized power to form the Paris Commune of 1871. Lenin consistently quotes Marx's The Civil War in France as a source for his assessments. I define the dictatorship of the proletariat and give context to the phrase. We brush the surface of democratic centralism as a means of organizing the governing body of the working class, and establish the distinct and clear cut scientific legitimacy to socialism rather than the utopian approach.

We examine chapter two of Vladimir Lenin's "State And Revolution" which discusses the Revolutions of 1848; spontaneous bourgeois revolution. Lenin discusses the evolution of Marx's analysis of the state during the uprisings. The new state apparatus that emerges following the proletarian revolution is the proletariat organized as the ruling class. The proletariat revolution necessitates the state in order to suppress the reactionary and bourgeois counter-revolutionaries who are attempting to regain power. The doctrine of class struggle leads to the recognition for political rule of the proletariat, and therefore the substitution of bourgeois power to the organization of a new economic and political order under the rule of the exploited masses. The state power must also be used by the proletariat to guide the masses to an organizing socialist society.

We examine Chapter One of Revolutionary theorists Vladimir Lenin's "State And Revolution" which discusses the nature of the state apparatus; that it arises from the irreconcilability of class antagonisms and the repression of the proletariat class. In order to seize the means of production, the proletariat must overthrow the ruling bourgeoisie state (dictatorship of the bourgeoisie) and install the rule of the proletariat class (dictatorship of the proletariat) to repress the reactionary and bourgeois forces attempting to seize power once more. After the counter-revolution is suppressed, class antagonisms are no more, and therefore, society transforms from a class society to a free society, and thus, the state apparatus gradually withers away, since the repression of a certain class no longer exists, the state can no longer exist. Lenin also discusses revisionism of Marx's and Engels' work by the Mensheviks and Social Democrats.

Public Citizen is a non-profit, progressive consumer rights advocacy group and think tank based in Washington, D.C., United States. We examine it's report that finds 55 American corporations that paid zero in federal income tax that have spent $450 million on political spending while simultaneously amassing $3.5 billion in tax rebates from the federal government. Comments on the state and corporate world are also included.

We explore resistance from environmentalists over the investment into fossil fuel pipelines such as those of the Dakota Access Pipeline, the L3 pipeline, and the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline due to President Biden's revoked permit, Vice President Kamala Harris' first foreign trip to Guatemala and Mexico to discuss the crackdown of immigration and corruption while ignoring the US's role in foreign policy that enables mass migration in these regions in the first place, Mexico's midterm election results, the victory of socialist candidate Pedro Castillo in the presidential runoff in Peru and the right wing's unfounded claims of election fraud, a hate crime in London, Ontario following an incident involving the deaths of 4 Muslims, Israel's election of a new Prime Minister, replacing Benjamin Netanyahu's 12 year reign, and the G7 Summit that dealt with initiatives to tackle China's rise.

ProPublica is a nonprofit organization based in New York City. It is a newsroom that aims to produce investigative journalism in the public interest. We examine their breakthrough report that the richest Americans avoid paying taxes while simultaneously amassing amounts of wealth never before seen since the Gilded Age.

Weekly Update explores the weekly headlines that includes the challenges facing Pride celebrations, UFO's and US Intelligence, Facebook's continued ban of former President Donald Trump until 2023, a challenging election in Peru over left wing candidate and former educator and trade unionist Pedro Castillo and right wing candidate and daughter of a former dictator Keiko Fujimori, the discovery of 215 bodies of dead indigenous children buried under a school in British Columbia, and the 77th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy and the liberation of France and Western Europe from Nazi occupation.

Weekly Update touches on the Miami-Dade County banquet hall mass shooting, the Senate Republican's block of the Jan. 6th Commission, meeting with President Biden and George Floyd family amidst the 1 year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, the ceasefire on the Gaza Strip between Hamas and Israel, and the continuing efforts to investigate the origins of COVID-19 amidst an exclusive report from the Wall Street Journal sourced from a US State Department intelligence paper.