For the reproduction of capitalism, the two-major-party structure dominating politics has proven very effective in most nations for some time now. While party names vary, their common relationship to reproducing capitalism does not. Examples include the Republicans and Democrats in the United States, Conservatives and Labour in the United Kingdom, Christian Democrats and Socialists in Germany, and so on. All those parties implicitly endorse and support the reproduction of capitalism, and most do so explicitly as well. The first in each pair differs from the second only on which variant of capitalism they prefer.
Usually, one party tilts toward a more inclusive and less unequal variant. It advocates government intervention to secure that variant. The other party tilts more toward markets and existing distributions of private property functioning with strictly limited government economic interventions. The winning party adjusts government economic interventions accordingly to alter the social mix of private and state enterprises, redistribute income and wealth toward more or less economic and social inequality, and so on. No matter which party prevails, factories, offices and stores - whether private or state enterprises, whether more or less taxed and regulated - continue to display the same basic employer-employee organization. The avoidance of any explicit discussion, debate or focus on alternative enterprise organizations serves to hide how both parties support the capitalist mode of enterprise organization. In the laws they pass; the administrative rules they enforce; the cultural meanings they constantly presume, endorse and reinforce for mass media, schools etc., both parties cement the social dominance of the employer-employee relationship that structures capitalist enterprises. They function as if that relationship were the best humanly possible, agreed universally to be such and thus beyond debate full: http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/34555-how-two-party-political-systems-bolster-capitalism _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
