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THE EVIL OF TWO LESSERS – or, why the working class shouldn’t support Harris or Trump

 

THE EVIL OF TWO LESSERS – or, why the working class shouldn’t support Harris or Trump


By Gregory A. Butler

America has two parties of the upper class, 80% of Americans have no voice in American politics and supporting either party of the rich is, was and always will be a bad idea for working class Americans

 

And NO, campaigning for Harris can't be justified by saying that "fascism" is on the horizon or that Trump is a "fascist"

 

Fascism is only relevant in countries with a politically independent working class, a strong class struggle oriented labor movement, lots of strikes and a real possibility of the working class seizing power and ending capitalism

 

That is not America in 2024

 

This is a country with two parties of the rich, no parties of the working class, a corrupt, pro capitalist, decomposing labor movement in decay  - six percent private sector union density - that's less than the Republic of Sudan! and less  strikes than we had in 1900

 

Trump is an old school  New York City real estate con man and this is just a hustle - no,,  despite what NPR and MSNBC say democracy is not "in danger" - just two politicians of the richest 20% of Americans, with nothing to offer but the same old same old for the working class 60% of the population and more prison cells, deportation and poverty for the bottom 20%

 

We need working class political independence - we need a revolutionary, working class based, communist party - in part to rebuild the labor movement (now down to just 6% of the private sector) in part to expose the capitalist dominated federal, state, county & local governments, all with the objective of ending the exploitation of labor and private commodity production

 

Building the Democratic Party just pushes the political spectrum to the right, accelerates the collapse of what's left of the labor movement & moves us further away from building a working class ruled society

 

I get it - Democratic machine politics can be quite lucrative - lots of temporary campaign staff jobs, some of which become permanent legislative aide jobs, which can lead to appointments to managerial positions in government, government contracts or discretionary funding - that's literally the only reason to get mixed up in the corrupt swamp of Democratic (or Republican) politics (assuming a person is not very ethical - if you are an honorable person... it's a very bad fit)

 

Socialists, on the other hand - and communists and anarchists, and any partisan of the working class - need to be fighting for political independence

 

Period

 

Full stop

 

Campaigning for Harris is not the way to go – nor, obviously, is voting for Trump

If you plan on voting, please vote for one of the progressive candidates running against both of them

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