John E, quotes probably John R "...she is a mainstream Democrat with all that implies..." yet all that that implies has not been identified by John R and the State Department socialists who think they are somehow leading the workers and left into building a new anti-fascist front. Marxists understand that the path to fascism is paved by all that the rule of "mainstream Democrats" ( and social Democrats) implies. It is because they implement the program of the ruling capitalist class, imposing austerity, violence against anti-imperialists and anti-Zionist protesters while allowing fascists to march is not a qualification of anti-fascist leadership. The militarization of the police and the imperialist foreign policy is promised by the leadership of John's anti-fascist coalition. The "socialists" who put their faith in Harris to stop fascism should know that the Democrats cannot defend the historic gains and reforms won during the ascendancy of the American empire and before the consequences of the tendency of the rate of profit eliminated its ability to conceded any further lasting reforms. It is that inability to make economic concessions to the masses that they have lost the ground to the rising fascist MAGA movement. Fascism is the consequence of the failure of bourgeois democracy to deliver, it is the punishment of the working class for not taking power the only way to stop the fascist reaction with with working class independent mobilizations, building a mass workers party in a contest for the leadership of the unions and organizations of the oppressed and ultimately arming the working class. The bourgeois democrats flail in their own incapacities to address what their rule has wrought. They have shown that they are not only unwilling but incapable of mobilizing an anti-fascist united front. They lit the fire, continue to put fuel on the fire, are not qualified firemen yet John R calls on the left to bring gas cans not water hoses! He calls the Fahrenheit 451 fire team to the print shop! Harris Waltz double down on militarism, their anti-immigration policy, provoke nuclear war, they bail out the banks and corporations at our expense, they dole out health care from eye droppers to ensure profits flow to big Pharma and insurance companies and lose ground to MAGA all the while. The leadership of the Trade Unions, the labor bureaucracy have long been integrated into the state and the imperialist project disarming the working class with the pragmatism of promoting the "lesser-evils" and conciliation vs class independence and class struggle. Yet in the streets fighting against genocide the youth have won gains in the union movement as the genocide is turning the tide. The dialectic works through class struggle for our basic and more advanced demands, yet John R. and his merry band of liquidators jump aboard the ship and row in the opposite direction of the anti-imperialists. He wants the radicalizing activists to stack their imperialists in a pecking order, he wants them to see US imperialist Democrats as a lesser evil (than both Trump and Putin) and sign on with those who are committing the genocide in Palestine as it spreads to Lebanon where workers are now being indiscriminately bombed. What they deny is that imperialism is a world system, there is no stacking and categorizing of imperialists into friendly or lesser imperialists. This stacking game played by both the Harris and Putin/Xi campists blocks the working class from its path to power with idealist empiricism creating illusions rather than fighting for working class agency. Stopping the fascist MAGA Tump movement, which will mobilize its hoards win lose or draw is not something that can be accomplished in the electoral arena or in the courts. The fascist threat can only be defeated by a working class anti-fascist and anti-imperialist united front that initiates the mass workers party and arms our class. Charles Rachlis"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common." IWW founding congress opening statement
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