IMT
New member
Dear Jarod:
Last May, low-income NYC residents were hit with a series of measures that hiked housing fees while at the same time action was taken to privatize sections of public housing. Who announced that? It was none other than the darling of progressivism, NYC Mayor de Blasio [Democrat].
Likewise, Senator Warren can do her fist-pumping ritual and shout ‘no more secret trade deals’ for multinational corporations. And Senator Sanders can run a perfunctory challenge to Ms. Clinton and say that Congress is totally owned by billionaires and their lobbyists. But demagogic rhetoric aside, we must surely be allowed to ask, 'do they actually defend working class interests.'
Senator Warren built her reputation posturing against corporate greed. But for her criticisms of Boeing, GE and Verizon for federal tax avoidance, she is now by the very nature of her present job, forced to represent GE’s interests. How clever!
Embittered by an increasingly right-wing Democratic party, many are disgusted by political process. Lest they abandon capitalism for politics based thoroughgoing, class analysis, Sanders’ charade candidacy channels the disaffected back into the political system. This grants a left cover to a center-right Democratic Party.
What none of them can say is that amassed wealth and growing social inequality is an essential product of the capitalist system that all of them defend, a system that subordinates all of life and life itself to a financial aristocracy on whose behalf alone their bought-and-paid-for-politicians run the entire political system.
Since Marx called workers of the world to unite to end class rule and imperial exploitation [be it by economic or military means], socialists have insisted on rational, global economic development with basic economic security for all. Socialists insist on investing the working class with responsibility for education, health, jobs, wages, housing and governance.
By way of contrast, American nationalist and US imperialism supporter Bernie Sanders is silent on the social ownership of industry and finance, silent on the socio-political dynamics behind social inequality, silent on the ongoing attack on working people and silent on Democratic Party complicity in it. His campaign opposes working class political independence and diverts burgeoning discontent back into the party in order to contain it. Sanders’ ‘socialism’ is a ruse to avert the real thing.
Bernie Sanders can call himself a ‘socialist’ from now till doomsday. He is no Eugene Victor Debs.
IMT
Last May, low-income NYC residents were hit with a series of measures that hiked housing fees while at the same time action was taken to privatize sections of public housing. Who announced that? It was none other than the darling of progressivism, NYC Mayor de Blasio [Democrat].
Likewise, Senator Warren can do her fist-pumping ritual and shout ‘no more secret trade deals’ for multinational corporations. And Senator Sanders can run a perfunctory challenge to Ms. Clinton and say that Congress is totally owned by billionaires and their lobbyists. But demagogic rhetoric aside, we must surely be allowed to ask, 'do they actually defend working class interests.'
Senator Warren built her reputation posturing against corporate greed. But for her criticisms of Boeing, GE and Verizon for federal tax avoidance, she is now by the very nature of her present job, forced to represent GE’s interests. How clever!
Embittered by an increasingly right-wing Democratic party, many are disgusted by political process. Lest they abandon capitalism for politics based thoroughgoing, class analysis, Sanders’ charade candidacy channels the disaffected back into the political system. This grants a left cover to a center-right Democratic Party.
What none of them can say is that amassed wealth and growing social inequality is an essential product of the capitalist system that all of them defend, a system that subordinates all of life and life itself to a financial aristocracy on whose behalf alone their bought-and-paid-for-politicians run the entire political system.
Since Marx called workers of the world to unite to end class rule and imperial exploitation [be it by economic or military means], socialists have insisted on rational, global economic development with basic economic security for all. Socialists insist on investing the working class with responsibility for education, health, jobs, wages, housing and governance.
By way of contrast, American nationalist and US imperialism supporter Bernie Sanders is silent on the social ownership of industry and finance, silent on the socio-political dynamics behind social inequality, silent on the ongoing attack on working people and silent on Democratic Party complicity in it. His campaign opposes working class political independence and diverts burgeoning discontent back into the party in order to contain it. Sanders’ ‘socialism’ is a ruse to avert the real thing.
Bernie Sanders can call himself a ‘socialist’ from now till doomsday. He is no Eugene Victor Debs.
IMT
lol OK.
