Posted on 11/26/2021 11:29:51 AM PST by Paperpusher
For the first session on Saturday, John Peterson, chief editor of Socialist Revolution magazine, spoke on the elections and how the working class was offered no real choice between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Biden was Wall Street’s preferred candidate. Democrats have already begun an offensive against the left wing of the party, against AOC and “the Squad.”
Trump will continue to have a strong hold on the Republican Party through his newly announced super PAC, and “Trumpism” is far from finished. His base includes millions of angry and distressed workers, because there’s no working class alternative to the big capitalist parties. The Democrats have lost the support of large sections of rural and unionized workers after taking them for granted for decades and imposing their own austerity. That section of the working class is not likely to turn back to the liberals.
Trump has skillfully and cynically tapped into a mood of discontent, putting himself forward as an alternative to the “elites” and the Wall Street-backed Democrats. For instance, many Trump supporters in Florida also voted for a $15 minimum wage. These people might not yet join a socialist organization, but they would join a mass workers’ party! The emergence of such a party would cut across the ability of demagogues like Trump to present the Republicans as the party of the working class. Like a magnet, a mass workers’ party could collect all the iron filings across the crevices of the United States and unite the forces of the American proletariat. Only socialism can beat Trumpism, and we need to prepare a strong Marxist tendency to intervene when such a working-class party forms.
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In one of two concurrent sessions that followed, Erika Roedl, an organizer for Socialist Revolution in Minneapolis, discussed the George Floyd protests and the Black Lives Matter uprising this summer. Over 50% of Americans thought that burning down the Minneapolis Third Precinct was justified. Of course, the BLM movement didn’t just appear from nowhere. It goes back to the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012. More murders of black men—such as Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014—were followed by more protests, but the movement never reached the intensity that we saw this summer.
The police played an important role in early American society to reinforce racism, starting as slave catchers. There’s no room to discuss “reforming” the police, when its sole purpose is to organize violence against the working class. We need a leadership that understands that what needs changing is capitalism.
More Communist drivel at the website. All of this is in their own words and is what is being purposed in Government today. Read this if you want to understand what is happening. I should not need to say it but: I DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THIS!
If these idiots want to abolish the police because they were supposedly slave catchers then they have no right to complain when the inevitable anarchy catches up with them.
The only fly in the ointment is the inability for the rest of us to separate ourselves from these fools; if there were, the rest of us could leaves these fools to enjoy their anarchi-socialist paradise and the rest of us could live normally.
I respectfully disagree. There is a way, cultural separation and divorce. And it’s already happening apace.
It’s all about the money. Big huge “Donate” button.
defund the police is two things:
federalize police
declare gun violence a public health crisis
Excellent article and well worth the read. Good to know where the opposition sees out weaknesses.
Remember the “Second Amendment” is there to protect the other Nine... Lock and Load
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