US DP as working class party in Manifesto sense

"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 US Democratic Party is a "working-class party" within the passage from the Manifesto above . We know it is also contradictorially a bourgeois party , but surely the working class parties Engels and Marx refer to above had contradictory class influences on them .

Communists are "sections" of working class parties, not whole separate parties.

Exactly what I'm getting at. There is a decades long class struggle in the Democratic Party for dominate influence so , the DP vacillates from FDR to Truman , from LBJ to Clinton. With Obama we start another swing to working-class dominance . Sanders being allowed to even run is proof of that. Our Marxist job is to be a section of the working-class Democratic Party that pushes it to be totally dominated by working-class interests vs bourgeois interests .

//. Kurt : "I would agree with you Charles Brown, the Democratic has been a working class party since the New Deal. In the area of Civil Rights, the democrats and republicans exchanged their positions during the period 1932 to 1964. The Republicans were nominally the party of the African American between 1876 and 1948, but had surrendered their progressive position with the Hayes-Tilden deal of 1876."