History of Class Struggle in the US Democratic Party

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History of Class Struggle in the US Democratic Party<


By CHARLES D. BROWN , Esq. <


Subject: History of class struggle in DP: WE NEED ANOTHER LBJ FOR THE USA


So my position is that since FDR a genuine class struggle goes on in the DP. Sometimes the Proletariat wins ; sometimes the Bourgeoisie wins . The bourgeoisie dominate the Republicans steadily; no class struggle in the Republican Party .


With FDR the working class won , among other major reforms , 40 HOUR WORKWEEK , THE HAYMARKET MAY DAY DEMAND . You know the one Communist Parties famously celebrate every year . That alone knocks the stuffing out of your whole Democratic Party has done nothing for us, the Proletariat.


But there was the rest of the New Deal Then as I say_ a real class struggle goes on in the DP in which sometimes the Bourgeoisie win , which speaks to all your criticisms above , including in the first place Democrat Truman started the Cold War ; and put the whole national board of the CPUSA , my Party, in prison ! This was before the Republican McCarthy. I and my Party have felt the sting of DP backstabbing more than you ! We know the treachery of Democrats better than you. But we don’t allow that to cause us to subjectively take on a dogmatic anti-Democratic Party attitude.


Things change ; with Kennedy and Johnson, another big pro-proletarian reform is won. And Kennedy was assassinated by fanatical anti-Communists in the CIA for being soft on Communism. He allowed the Cuban revolution to survive , he didn’t escalate in Viet Nam and he made a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviets; he was assasinsted 2 months after that. Cuba still stands. The test ban treaty was important for the International Proletariat in that period .<



Johnson of course got the message and invaded The Dominican Republic when there was an insurrection there ; and escalated in Viet Nam . However , Johnson basically followed the demands of the peace movement by not running for re-election. And at that point the leading candidates for President in the Democratic Party were for ending the war , again the dominant influence in the material interest of the International Proletariat.


(DEMOCRAT Jimmy Carter allowed the Sandinistas to take power ; theyre still in power 45 years later ) .<



Then of course LBJ passed the Great Society / a War on Poverty and Civil Rights Act. The low incomed and Black People are major sections of the proletariat. So this is another major reform victory through the Democratic Party. Meanwhile the Elephant in the room that you are blind to is moving steadily to the right , leaping to the antiproletarian right with Reaganism , and fascism with Trump . <



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FALSE Equivalence of Democrats and Republicans is ultra left insanity under Republican fascism



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Great cartoons, but they've all got to go. Most of the dems are complicit. Just not as organized for evil. <



No Dems are not complicit in cutting Obamacare , food stamp , right to abortion (!) , ICE Gestapo, tax cuts for wealthy, destruction of Civil Rights Acts (!!) , destruction of public education, bankrupting Detroit , stealing half my pension …. on and on. There’s a huge difference between Dems and Reps , federal and state .<


Point taken, but these times require fighting with bigger sticks and they haven't figured that out. < Their approach is working . Interim elections and polls are predicting a bloodbath for Republicans in the midterms . Not only that . Being in the minority means<


you don’t have bigger sticks ! Dogging out Dems helps the fascists . < <


21st Century ultra-lefts rhyme with 20th Century ultra-lefts Lenin criticized : Anarchists; Anarchists have led the most Protest demontrations ; however they abjure state power ; imagine the state will wither away in 24 hours , as Lenin put < Being against Dems and Reps is deluding that the government , military will just dissappear in response to a general strike (smiles )


Lenin's Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920) argues that communist parties must combine legal and illegal work, participate in bourgeois parliaments, and work within reactionary trade unions to gain mass support, rejecting the "infantile" ultra-left, sectarian, and dogmatic refusal to engage in tactical compromises. @ Key Aspects and Outline: • Context: Written to guide international communists, primarily in Germany and Britain, by applying lessons from the three Russian revolutions. • Core Critiaue: Lenin labels the reiection ofCore Critique: Lenin labels the rejection of parliamentary work and trade union participation as "left-wing" childishness, which isolates revolutionaries from the masses. • Key Arguments: • Flexibility & Tactics: Revolutionaries must utilize all legal, illegal, parliamentary, and non-parliamentary means to reach the masses. • Working within Trade Unions: Communists must not abandon reactionary unions but work within them to win over workers. • Parliamentary Participation: Refusal to participate in parliaments is a "childish" error; they should be used as a platform for propaganda. • Compromises: Not all compromises are opportunistic; Communists must distinguish between those that serve the revolution and those that betray it. • Discipline: The importance of ironopportunistic; Communists must distinguish between those that serve the revolution and those that betray it. • Discipline: The importance of iron discipline and centralized leadership within the party (Bolshevik model). • The "Infantile" Element: The tendency to mistake personal desires for objective reality, leading to a sectarian, "pure," but powerless movement. • Goal: To move beyond the initial, inexperienced phase of Communist parties to build a mass base capable of taking power. * Introduction to Lenin's<


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