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Tuesday, January 21, 2020
What an American Labor Party can do to end avoidable misery
American society has been described by various sociologists for more than a century as essentially UPPER CLASS, MIDDLE CLASS , WORKING CLASS ( includes numerous subsets such as the destitute homeless and the criminal class ) . For some time now the once stable Middle Class has been destabilized ( like Iraq in the Middle East ) and sadly in FREE FALL in the USA. Marx was right here about some inevitable proletarian-ization of the middle class in advanced capitalist countries.
Separately neither the middle class nor the working class have the social power to tame the American plutocracy.
A promising beginning of " revolutionary" reform would be the institutionalization-consistent with the given American Constitution - of a THREE PARTY SYSTEM in the United States. The Democrat Party is presently as unstable as a U-235 nucleus . A huge break off chunk of the Democrat Party could form the nucleus of a potent new American Labor Party - as massive and CLASS based as the British Labor but with a fresh start and and a lot less compromised. Here Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren could " make History ".
[ Why working class people in the USA might perceive Trump as the LESSER EVIL in 2020 ? : Trump says what he means and means what he says. The " friend of labor " Democrat Party of the United States is now the most FALSE political organization on the planet earth . With their Kafkaesque Trump impeachment hearings - so enraged over events in the Ukraine of all the far away, irrelevant places ! - they have promoted the HATE RUSSIA, New McCarthyism .
The American working class people know the truth about their own lives. . They don't need dogmatic ( though it might help ) " Marxist " guidance to understand the reality of daily exploitation on the job and daily oppression in social life in a capitalist system based on lies in the mainstream news media and brutality in the police force of the National Security State .
In this American Labor Party they will hear their own voice and feel their own collective will. They will not be bullied by ubiquitous belligerent " friends of Apartheid Israel " Zionists. They will not be bullied by the totalitarians of the Left with godless New Atheist visions of a BIG BROTHER " 1984 " state.
Nor will they discover ENEMY nation states everywhere in the world - a different flavor of the month - to feed our Moloch Pentagon God of War .
There is a great deal of avoidable misery and injustice on the Good Earth . Checking it with collective political and spiritual will is not a UTOPIAN venture .
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