(03-26-2021, 07:30 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:(03-26-2021, 01:11 AM)Einzige Wrote: I mean, I am a Marxist. An actual Communist. What you think the Democrats are, but they aren't (and they don't pretend to be).
There's no distinction between the Democratic and Republican Parties other than the mealy interests of their social bases. One caters more to extractive and manufacturing interests, the other to financial and importing interests. There isn't a Goddamn lick of difference otherwise
Really? Do you mean that there is no meaningful difference between Donald Trump and either his predecessor or his successor? That there is no difference between Senator Ron "reincarnation of Joseph R. McCarthy?" Johnson and Tammy Baldwin?
As it is, the Republican and Democratic Parties differ in their bases of support... well, that is how democratic systems work. The British reform bills of the nineteenth century that improved the conditions of the working class had the sponsorship of the more agrarian Tories; those same Tories exploited farm labor badly. Eventually the more Whig-like, industrial Liberals got power and used it to reform living conditions among the rural proletariat.
I recognize that we all need to see the politics of super-rich interests with some distrust. The greatest profits come from the establishment and exploitation of scarcity.
Yes, really. Even MUH PROGRESSIVE HEROES like Paul Wellstone were bourgeois shitscum (capitalist progressives are even more insidious than conservatives- progressives develop the architecture of capitalist social control, e.g. Social Security, which the bourgeois State administers).
As this crisis of capitalism deepens - and it indeed is a crisis of capitalism, of material production, and not of the voodoo arrangement of stars in the zodiac or of generations - the Democratic Party will increasingly reveal itself for the raw, brutal instrument of bourgeois class domination which it actually is.