Be careful about your statements on lynch mobs, because again, you veer into very anti-marxist territory. First of all, Charles Lynch, a Virginia Judge and an American revolutionary, began “Lynch’s Law” in his famous capture and ad hoc trial of British Loyalists hostile to the revolution. His actions were legalized ex post facto by the revolutionary Virginia General Assembly.

Lynching took on a negative connotation to many after the end of the Civil War, when the rebel south was finally freed from the occupation of federal troops after the end of Reconstruction. Lynching was then used to enforce a racist division of society in an attempt to defend the privileges of the Southern planter aristocracy. This negative connotation, however, was not shared by Karl Marx.

Marx supported the Paris Commune, even if it was started by what Marx himself called a lynch mob. (First and Second Drafts of The Civil War in Paris) Two generals, Claude LeComte and Jacques Leon Clement-Thomas, were killed by mutinous soldiers and angry Parisians calling themselves the Committee of Vigilance. The trial was considered insufficient and opposed by the mayor of Paris, opponent and exile of the Paris Commune, and future Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau. Marx supported the Paris Commune and you would oppose it, siding with Georges Clemenceau. You are a defender of France’s Third Republic, (1870-1940) excusing the atrocities of French generals, while justifying the artillery shelling of civilians for daring to form their own government.

Why do you side with Clemenceau, enemy of the Paris Commune? Why do you side against Karl Marx, while claiming to represent Trotskyism? Trotsky would side with Marxism and against you. He would side with the soldiers who executed General LeComte and General Clement-Thomas and with the Committee of Vigilance. He would side with #MeToo against Senator Al Franken, the highest paid media CEO Les Moonves, and the close associate of Hillary Clinton, mogul Harvey Weinstein. Do you want them, like the French generals we spoke of, to order the shelling of the U.S. version of the Paris Commune and hold back the socialist revolution for ages? The media and the politicians of the Democratic Party, like Al Franken, are shelling the people with hate and ignorance, but you have an endless well of forgiveness for them.

The absence of the German army on the outskirts of the capital makes the situation less deadly, but the opposition to the government, to executive-level predators, and to the capitalist system they uphold has polarized the country to civil-war-like levels of mutual distrust and hate. In this situation, it is important for revolutionaries not to turn on each other, but remain committed to the vision of the people forcefully removing the broken government and the capitalist oligarchy from power. The original 1780 Lynch Law of Virginia Judge Charles Lynch belongs to the workers of the world and not the Southern U.S. Planters.