Workers on picket lines should not expect serious support from " progressive " Democrats

The cop violence against working class people fighting for LIFE on picket lines in Pawtucket , Rhode Island and elsewhere in the United States of " OUR democracy " is hardly a surprise to American labor historians. And no surprise at all to long time independent democratic socialists . We try to explain the Marxist CLASS STRUGGLE view of the role of the police in capitalist society without vilifying individual cops or individual capitalists. PRIVATE PROPERTY has a nasty logic of its own. Workers on picket lines should not expect serious support from " progressive " Democrats. Corporate America controls both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. For the past decades the real passions of " progressive " Democrats are WOKE nonsense like Critical Race Theory and even more fatuous gender identity politics. Also they are far more war mongering on POST-COMMUNIST Russia than MAGA Trump Republicans. Three cheers for nuclear World War III over " sovereign " Ukraine . With " Sleepy Joe " Biden as our next great war time president ! The pro-labor FDR-JFK influenced Democratic Party is GONE WITH THE WIND . Of course , stupid and corrupt organized labor leaders still slobber over the Democratic Party ( and lately over the FBI ) . Their J. Edgar Hoover Building is well named. A whiff of the McCarthy Era , of I.F. Stone's " Haunted Fifties ".