<<You concede that after the revolution takes place there will be a war led by the hyper power of the US against the countries/country that has achieved revolution, yet you have failed to explain how the communists will win this war. How can a country such as Algeria stand against the US? You say the workers (I find it interesting that you used the term ‘workers’ rather than ‘the peasants’ or ‘the oppressed’ here) will seize power, but are you seriously suggesting that American workers will seize control of the US? As with out this the revolution is doomed. However The chances of American ‘workers’ taking power are (IMO) currently non existent.>>
Firstly, termonology. As I follow the idea of there being 2 classes (the Proletariat and the Bourgeoisie) as opposed to the Working/Middle/Upper idea regarding class. I tend not to use Proletariat as generally spell it wrong and some people might not know what it means so I'll use 'workers', as that's what the Proletariat do- sell their labour. If I'm talking about specifically urban workers, I'll say it. If I'm talking about the ppopulation as a whole, I'll either say the People or the Masses.
Anyway, as for the question. How can Communists stand up to the might of the USA? Through the Peoples War as laid down by Mao, which essentially involves not only fighting the war along Guerilla and as the Communists strength grows, more conventional war but also extensive base building among the people in teh form of setting up community services- schools, medical facilities etc etc all provided and paid for by the Communists. If the people support the peoples war the only way it can be defeated is through wide spread genocide, which is beyond even the Americans. As for you talking about Algeria, Algeria defeated the French who, despite constantly being made fun of, have a very good army and it is one of the few Western armies with extensive real combat experience (until September 11th the modern American army had had limited real combat experience, the majority of American troops sitting on their asses in Germany, South Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo etc). What you're saying was said about Vietnam, how could a bunch of peasants with captured guns and red flags defeat the strongest military nation on the face of the planet? In Nepal, people scoffed the Maoist Peoples War when it started 1996, now it stands as probably the strongest, largest, best equipped and trained irregular armies in the world. People said the NPA in the Philipeans would be quickly and easily crushed, 20 years later it's still fighting. The Maoists in India (lead by the Communist Party of India (Maoist)) controls large areas of land and has the support of millions of people, even though India has a very large and relatively experienced army.
As for America, America would be the last to have a Revolution. Much work needs to be done, not only to educate the people and weaken the US military and other such counter-revolutionary forced but a Class Consciousness has to be developed. In my opinion that's what the American workers lack and that's what needs to happen before any major progress can be made.
<<When Marx formulated his theories he couldn’t have predicted a global situation in which the worlds sole hyper power has total military domination over the rest of the world and had virtually no proletariat (as he understood the term). With what little proletariat it has being successfully subdued by the opium’s of the people i.e so called democracy and religion etc>>
Once again, this is to do with the lack of a Class Consciousness. I would say that Materialism is the opium of America. People are taught that if you have a job, TV, a car and a house your life is complete and can't get any better. Yes the workers in the USA do have it pretty good compared to, say, Nepal. But poverty is measured by contridictions among the masses, and there are many and they are huge.
<<I belive there are two solutions to the US total domination of the world. One is for revolution to occur in a countries such as India or China. These countries have nuclear weapons and so are virtually immune to US military invasion. And they have the natural resources and man power to support the ‘lesser’ nations that achieve revolution. However this method runs the risk of Nuclear War (not cool for any of us) and it will soon become obsolete if ever the Star Wars program is up and running.>>
Well, India is being worked on as we speak. Several proviences are controlled by the Maoists, and at the moment the Indian and Nepalese Maoists are cooperating and attempting to build a stable area of Maoist control (A large square thing that is half in India, half in Nepal) in which they can consolidate, plan and continue to fight the Peoples Wars more effectively. The problem with India, is it is so large. So the Maoists control around 3 proviences and have much influence in about another 6- that's still a tiny fraction of India as a whole. In my opinion they need to start doing more work among various 'untouchables' and the Tamil, so as to build a greater support base spread over more of the country. But yes, your idea is right, there needs to be some counter balance to the US domination.
<<The second method is concerned with winning the hearts and minds of the oppressors. The oppressors may not be proletariat, but as Lenin proved any person of any class can develop the conshusness (spell??) of the proletariat and so become proletariat them selves.>>
In a way, Lenin took the old French Revolutionary model in which the rulig class were in some way 'tainted' and thus couldn't really be part of the new society. Mao on teh other hand said that they could be reeducated and incorperated into the new society.
<<Communists/socialists need to show the oppressors the suffering of the oppressed, and convert them to the cause thus revolution can be achieved from above rather than below (as in Germany). To convert the oppressors communists should learn from the examples of history. The example that Jesus left to his followers lead to the Christianity overturning the Roman empire, The example that Ghandi gave led to the defeat of the British empire.>>
No, a Revolution from above will result in teh alienation of the people and turn the movement into a reactionary one. See: Syria. See: Iraq. The ruling class will never give up their position, as that would cause their power to evaporate and them to lose all the privilages that they have gained. This is why there must be a mass movement by the people to remove them from power.
<<To convert the oppressors show them how much more you are than they! Rather than rioting in Seattle against capitalism you should instead use non violent means. If they beat you turn the other cheek, burn yourself to death if you have to!>>
Peaceful and legal protests have their place, but they cannot bring about great social change. This is where you'll talk about Ghandi- Ghandi got rid of British exploitation and brough in Bhramin exploitation and strengthened the Caste system. So not only is india as Capitalist society, it has the strange combination of being a Fuedalist-Capitalist society.
<<The US military machine is invincible and will not be over come by violence, but through pacifist methods you can win American public opinion and achieve the revolution you seek.>>
The peoples war can overcome any military force, as has been proved multiple times. More over, the US military is built by the people. If people stop joining, or infact join it and mutiny (as was done by the PLP in the 60s/70s as well as on a larger scale in Russia before 1917). A Peoples War in the USA could be won, but much work would have to be done and there would most likely have to be international support for the revolutionaries in the USA (like the Chinese and Soviets supporting the NLF [Viet Cong])