On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 10:58 AM, hari kumar wrote: > > ...people here were saying that Democrats no better than Republicans. John > R has been harping on against those on the list saying that for some time > now, even very recently. However most of those being so castigated for > that viewpoint, have been very silent on this recently. And I interpreted > that to indicate they had drawn back from that position.
IMO, at the extremes both sides are correct, but in a one-sided way. The Democrats are barely distinguishable from the Republicans at the top but are also very different in social composition and political level at the bottom: 1. The Republican leadership represents the conservative wing of the ruing class and the Democratic leadership its liberal wing. The big bourgeoisie uses elections to periodically entrust one or the other party with managing the system in accordance with its interests. 2. The Republicans have drawn their support from small property owners in the cities and countryside as well as the more atomized and politically backward sectors of the working class opposed to the labour movement and its allies. Like their kindred social democratic parties outside the US, the Democrats have since the New Deal traditionally drawn their support from the unions and the racial and gender equality, environmental, and other social movements. 3. If a viable party of the left were to reemerge in the US, it will necessarily be spearheaded by the workers and social movement activists and their supporters abandoning the Democratic party en masse after a struggle to reform it from within. 4. To this end, Marxists have partcipated in the unions, parties, and movements supported by the more politically advanced workers. In doing so, they have taken into account the current level of working class political consciousness and combativity in formulating the appropriate demands and model of organization to help lead it forward. 5. This is what distinguishes Marxists from anarchists and other left sectarians whose demands and organizational models do not correspond to the current level of working class political consciousness. These are are premised on the belief - inherited from the elevated level of class struggle in the interwar period of the last century - that the working class is at the stage where it favours the overthrow rather than reform of the system. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40525): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40525 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117601828/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
