The basic interest of the working class is in opposition to capitalism. The capitalist class controls life in the U.S. through the Democratic and Republican parties and uses the government for its own ends. This class is the enemy of the revolution and the vast majority of the people of the U.S. Capitalists are very wealthy and live off the exploited labor of others. They stay in the background and supply the money and pull the strings. The Democratic and Republican Parties have people behind them. These are the bankers and industrialists who finance Republican and Democratic campaigns. The Democratic Party, just as the Republican Party, is a political organization of the bosses, not of the workers.
By accusing the previous Democratic administration, the Democratic Party, and many in the Republican Party of treachery, bungling and blundering mismanagement, Trump bids to become the champion of the “little people” who are justifiably suspicious of the Washington elite. Trump hopes he can become the champion of the discontented “middle-classes” who are deeply disturbed by the world and domestic crises and have grown to be the opponents of the status quo. This kind of demagogy for some observers signifies an attempt to rally a populist movement around a neo-fascist banner.
The workers can depend upon no one except those of their own class. The next step toward the solution of their problems must be the election of delegates to political office – local, state and national – from the workers’ own ranks by the workers’ own political party. We are firmly convinced that even such a small party, the World Socialist Party, with a program that coincides with historic development, can not only “get somewhere” but will help re-make the world. We stand for socialism: a new system in which the people own and control the economy, through social institutions of the widest democracy. We stand for socialism which is completely independent of and opposed to the exploitation of man by man which now divide the world. Our principal aim is to spread the ideas of revolutionary socialism, politically educate and recruit members.
Capitalism is an outlived system whose lifeblood is private profit and oppression, whether or not represented as the “welfare state” and whether or not its government is administered by liberals or self-styled progressives. We stand in opposition to both old parties, Democratic and Republican. socialism presents a third choice to the duopoly, a choice for a new world of freedom, peace and security. Both the Democratic and Republican parties are conscious war parties, preparing and mobilizing the country for never-ending wars. Patriotic speeches and red-baiting demagogy will not hide the harsh realities of Wall Street’s politicians.
The Democratic and Republican parties actually work together hand-in-glove to play the American people for fools on a fiddle. The U.S. Empire uses its twin demons known as the Democratic and Republican parties to play the American people, and the peoples of the world, as a perpetual ping pong ball in an unceasing state of manipulation.
While there is a difference in the temperament of the two presidential candidates, that difference will play out only in how our poison will be delivered. Political personalities serve global corporate centers of power. They do not control them. Democracy has died. Neither Biden and Trump do not have the power nor the interest to revive it. They kneel before Wall St and bow before the bloated military-economic complex which consumes trillions of dollars to wage futile wars. . Presidents and politicians are courtiers to bankers and industrialists. The candidates mouth the cliches of justice, business improvements and democratic choice, but it is a cynical game. Once it is over, the victors will go to the White House to work with the lobbyists and financial elites to carry out the real business of ruling. For-sale politicians and political parties for hire dominate the United States. Voting for Biden may slow the slide into the apocalypse. Or it will accelerate it. Trump may vanish from the political landscape, but someone even more venal, and probably more intelligent, will take his place.
The World Socialist Party’s conception of a future society in which there would be no rich or poor, where society would be run democratically both politically and economically, where the economy would be rationally planned and production would be based on human needs not profits for individuals. This is not about false hope. This is about a future of hard work and organizing. The common good, the building of community and solidarity is the WSP goal.
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