Occupy Wall Street defined Working Class Line of March : We r the 99% !

Occupy Wall Street defined Working Class Line of March : We r the 99% ! 2016 : With deciding whether to support Dems, history and facts are key. Since FDR's DP, the Democratic Party has been a grounds of class struggle. Pro-Working class reform influence dominated in FDR years . The bourgeoisie struck back dominating with Truman. LBJ administration was another peak of wc reform. Democrat Clinton adminustrstion had bourgeois crack back. Now Obama has _started_, not peaked , another rise of working class influence. Also, Eisenhower was not , on balance ,anti-wc. The working class rise from the thirties on domestic issues was still strong in the fifties . Truman's anti-wc actions were against Communist countries and the Communist Party. The Republican Congress passed Taft-Hartley (though some Drmocratic votes in Congress overthrew the veto).

This outline history shows that working class movement mass protest and lobbying can take over the DP. The main working class mass protests that are influencing the DP in this period are Occupy Wall Street and the Latina/o immigration reform marches of five years ago or so. Occupy consciously represented the working class IN THE CLASS STRUGGLE with its "We are the 99% vs the 1%. " Can't think of a more perfect Marxist slogan than that ( despite the fact that Marxists define class based on relationship to the means of production not income ). I basically consider Occupy a spontaneous creation of a temporary Working Class Party in convention nationally for eight months. It definitely impacted the 2012 Presidential election; no "We are the 99% ", no " Romney's 47% gaffe". The 99% /1% is still part of the current events media framework. The class issue has been tattooed onto mass political discussion . Bernie is clearly the Presidential candidate from Occupy Wall Street with his emphasis on criticizing Wall Street and raising significant reforms for the 99%.



///////////////////////////////::/ "In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole? The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties. They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole. They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement. The Communists are distinguished from the other working-class parties by this only: 1. In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interests of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. 2. In the various stages of development which the struggle of the working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole. The Communists, therefore, are on the one hand, practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the line of march, the conditions, and the ultimate general results of the proletarian movement. The immediate aim of the Communists is the same as that of all other proletarian parties: formation of the proletariat into a class, overthrow of the bourgeois supremacy, conquest of political power by the proletariat. The theoretical conclusions of the Communists are in no way based on ideas or principles that have been invented, or discovered, by this or that would-be universal reformer. They merely express, in general terms, actual relations springing from an existing class struggle, from a historical movement going on under our very eyes. The abolition of existing property relations is not at all a distinctive feature of communism." https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm