[Marxism] Is there a political crisis in the US ruling class?
Charles Brown
charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Wed Feb 20 10:06:55 MST 2008
Marvin Gandall
Charles Brown wrote:
> <Oddly, coincidently , not only is the Republican Party split, but a
> woman and a Black person are the only remaining candidates for the
> Democratic Party nomination. Obama is getting a significantly large
> number of white votes, a revolutionary trend in the US where
Black/White
> unity is the leading revolutionary unity. The Democratic Party is a
> party of big business, but these developments represents a subversion
of
> the Democratic Party by working class forces.>
>
Greg McDonald replied:
> I would love to agree with you, but I just have to say, prove it.
> Working Class forces? Really?
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First, we'd have to know what each of you means by "working class
forces"?
Do they include the close to 90% of workers who don't belong to trade
unions? University graduates, derided as "latte liberals" by the
media, but
now comprising nearly a third of the US population?
^^^^
CB: In my analysis, 90% of the population is working class or
wage-laborers.
Here I really mean advance on issues of racial and gender unity of the
working class. Racial unity is _the_ most important goal for the US
working class as a precondition for the working class to carry out its
historic mission. Nomination or election of Obama is not the whole nine
yards of unity, but it would be a big step in that direction. Workers of
all races , unite !
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