This is the finale of a 6-part series where I respond to two different Leftist authors from Medium and Substack — one of whom remains loyal to the Dems, and another whom is showing positive signs of waking up.
All very good. I couldn't agree more. I didn't vote for the uniparty either but look where we are as a country? Trump will run what's left of it the rest of the way into the ground. By the time he is finished, there won't be much left to salvage in four years. I hope I am wrong but the only out of this mess is for a complete break from the morbidly wealthy oligarchs and start over. Something akin to the French revolution of 1789. I hope it will be less bloody but nonetheless, something extremely radical in order to clean out the rats nest in the political halls of the country. I don't see any other way back from this. It's either a complete shake up or a complete economic breakdown and a dissolution of the United States as we know it now.
I hear you, man. On the one hand, it's good that the working class gave the Democrats the boot. They deserved it for refusing to serve our interests, refusing to listen to us, and dividing us against each other on the basis of race, gender, etc rather than uniting us as a class. They had to go, and the working class had to stop relying on them.
On the other hand, of course, the working class has still refused to fully break with the uniparty apparatus as a whole en masse. They are still taking sides with one set of capitalists against another set based on which talks the best rhetoric in their eyes.
But alas, I actually see some hope in what currently constitutes the MAGA crew. They are at least mostly talking *class* and doing a surprisingly good job (after the failure of the Democrats) with uniting people across racial, ethnic, and gender lines based on shared class interests. They are thus gradually straining out any lingering racism or sexism, and they are willing to strongly oppose Trump and Musk on things they disagree with. They also expect the Republicans to give them what they want. In contrast, Dem supporters never demanded anything from their party but continued to vote and shill for them no matter how often they failed the working class.
My hope is that MAGA fractures and becomes part of the broader working class movement now being built by Kshama Sawant, Workers Strike Back. We need to stop being divided by social issues and get united on class issues first and foremost.
As long as we stay mindful of the material needs all people have in common, we will foster an atmosphere of mutual respect where we can easily tolerate each other's cultural, social, and sexual differences. And, as a youth liberationist, I will argue that we need to bring young people under 18 into the movement and treat them like full citizens. No demographic should be left out.
All very good. I couldn't agree more. I didn't vote for the uniparty either but look where we are as a country? Trump will run what's left of it the rest of the way into the ground. By the time he is finished, there won't be much left to salvage in four years. I hope I am wrong but the only out of this mess is for a complete break from the morbidly wealthy oligarchs and start over. Something akin to the French revolution of 1789. I hope it will be less bloody but nonetheless, something extremely radical in order to clean out the rats nest in the political halls of the country. I don't see any other way back from this. It's either a complete shake up or a complete economic breakdown and a dissolution of the United States as we know it now.
I hear you, man. On the one hand, it's good that the working class gave the Democrats the boot. They deserved it for refusing to serve our interests, refusing to listen to us, and dividing us against each other on the basis of race, gender, etc rather than uniting us as a class. They had to go, and the working class had to stop relying on them.
On the other hand, of course, the working class has still refused to fully break with the uniparty apparatus as a whole en masse. They are still taking sides with one set of capitalists against another set based on which talks the best rhetoric in their eyes.
But alas, I actually see some hope in what currently constitutes the MAGA crew. They are at least mostly talking *class* and doing a surprisingly good job (after the failure of the Democrats) with uniting people across racial, ethnic, and gender lines based on shared class interests. They are thus gradually straining out any lingering racism or sexism, and they are willing to strongly oppose Trump and Musk on things they disagree with. They also expect the Republicans to give them what they want. In contrast, Dem supporters never demanded anything from their party but continued to vote and shill for them no matter how often they failed the working class.
My hope is that MAGA fractures and becomes part of the broader working class movement now being built by Kshama Sawant, Workers Strike Back. We need to stop being divided by social issues and get united on class issues first and foremost.
As long as we stay mindful of the material needs all people have in common, we will foster an atmosphere of mutual respect where we can easily tolerate each other's cultural, social, and sexual differences. And, as a youth liberationist, I will argue that we need to bring young people under 18 into the movement and treat them like full citizens. No demographic should be left out.
https://www.workersstrikeback.org/