Does anybody ever dissect this view of some generic LEFT that is daily acting so preposterously in the minds of the sober American working class and the once solid -now in inflation free fall middle class ? Right wing critics see a close connection with Marxism . But Marxist political philosophy was rooted in a vision of liberated working class finally free from capitalist exploitation and oppression. No serious Marxist scholar can imagine traditional Marxists endorsing wacky WOKE causes which , in effect, atomize the working class , dividing it into often conflicting " identity politics " groups. This WOKE Democratic Party would destroy a little something called CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS. The socialists I remember back in the Tumultuous Sixties would integrate recognized special forms of oppression under capitalism but would integrate the collective fight against them into a CLASS STRUGGLE framework . For example, Black leader Malcolm X made a connection way back in 1965 between RACISM and capitalism , between RACISM and imperialism . My favorite Malcolm X quote : " Show me a capitalist and I will show you a blood sucker ". Today gay rights activism and " Third Wave Feminism " are completely detached from CLASS STRUGGLE politics and focused on petty bourgeois social climbing and upward mobility. This fits so well into what has been called " The Culture of Narcissism ". The corrupt Democratic Party wants to channel all these assorted INDENTITY " communities " into THEIR camp. They have been telling angry Black voters for decades that there is no salvation outside the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party has the same message for organized labor . It has a strangle hold on the AFL-CIO telling the workers : " There is no salvation outside the Democratic Party ! ". Rubbish, say we democratic socialists . There IS salvation in a third party , independent of the American ruling class. Call it an American Labor Party similar to the British Labor Party but with a more militant CLASS STRUGGLE agenda.