First the fascist Republicans must be defeated: As a learned Leninist, I use Dimitrov’s definition of fascism in the first place - open terrorist rule by the most reactionary, bellicose, ( I’d add white supremacist ) sections of finance capital/ imperialism. That’s exactly what we got with the Republican Party right here , right now ( concretely in Leninist sense of concrete analysis of the concrete situation) , don’t ya think.

I also used Mussolini's definition of fascist because I was writing to masses on Facebook , not other Marxists . http://take10charles.blogspot.com/2020/10/abolish-fascist-republican-party.html

I have been warning of the fascist tendency in the Reaganite Republican Party for at least 20 years . There is no premature anti-fascism has been my slogan . But it fell on deaf ears on the Left , running up against the US Left anti-Democratic Party dogma by which Lefts prove their bona fides by constantly criticizing the DP and declaring that there is no difference between the parties , that they are both parties if big biz, yada, yada , yada .


For 90 years the US working class has won all its reforms through the Democratic Party , because there is a genuine class struggle in the Democratic Party ; sometimes the 99% wins and sometimes the Bourgeoisie win; the Bourgeoisie totally dominate the Republican Party . Now Leninists should form a Popular Front against fascism with Liberals as in WWII


Niko : "The Democrat politicians themselves are no better than the Republicans, it was always mass working class organizations that opened up political possibilities for more conciliatory elements within the bourgeoisie to enact their reforms. Reforms that they only supported because they were profitable."


CB : This is the central and most critical error of the US Left : no difference between Dems and Reps False equivalence of Dems and Reps is a dogmatic Left error

Alexander : "If workers were united and there wasn’t a pandemic, general strikes could bring meaningful reforms. But things are pretty crazy now. I agree an armed revolution wouldn’t work out if leftists tried it."


CB: Thank you for your response. In fact , yes , the 99% is divided in many ways - based on white supremacism , so-called middle and lower classes , and ultimately in the US into individuals with extreme individualist ideology part of US national character. With due respect, a General strike is wishful thinking . But even a General strike would not pass the many, many, many laws that would have to be changed to create a more socialist country . That would have to be done by legislatures.

A general strike path to socialism is sort of Economistic error as Lenin criticised in What is to be done ? Trade unionism pure and simple . The path to socialism is by workers in politics; in the US electoral politics. The 99% is the overwhelming majority. But they are very unclass conscious; in fact in the US , half of the working class is anti-working class conscious. That’s from all the Cold War Bourgeois propaganda.