Social crisis, class struggle and the 2020 election

In their own ways, last week’s Democratic National Convention and this week’s Republican National Convention represented the response of the parties of the ruling class to the eruption of social opposition, to which they are both hostile and which they both fear.

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{The more direct response comes from the Republicans. Speaker after speaker railed in hysterical fashion, some literally screaming, against a tide of left-wing opposition engulfing the nation. They ranted against “Marxism,” “socialism” and “mob rule” by left-wing demonstrators.}

This is a direct purposeful agenda to group anyone seemingly left into one category for their supporters to hate. Most who are ignorant to the 3 basic types of socialism, they lump us all together as one bad entity. And within the same agenda you can also install fear into any left leaning or progressive from learning about all aspects of socialism. I mentioned the recent attacks on Marxism just days ago and what that purpose was about. If they can control the narrative by relating Marxism to the USSR and Red China, you can reduce the amount of people seeing our youth who are speaking out for change within socialism within the Marxist theory from educating themselves out of fear amongst their peers.

{The Democrats’ response is more sophisticated. Employing their army of professional apologists and left-talking spin doctors, the Democrats sought to present themselves as sympathetic to the demands of protesters against police violence and of workers facing a social disaster. But this was only to chloroform and disarm the mounting opposition, to splinter it into an array of warring “identities,” and to channel it into the dead end of racial politics.}

In other words. They're using the same play book Obama used with a mixture of their own war on socialism to also stunt its growth and degrade our youths desires. They were given a satirist name of Entitled Millennials as they began speaking out. In which they are now often falsely blamed for many issues our society faces today. They have had a target planted squarely on their backs by the propaganda machine in which the media has been used like a gun on them.

{Like patent medicine salesmen, both parties peddle their candidates as the miracle cure for what ails the country. But it is already clear that this election, regardless of its outcome, will not restore any form of normalcy to American political life.

In fact, the crises facing the country are so vast, sweeping and all-pervasive that neither convention was capable of even addressing them by name.}

{This orientation continues in the 2020 election. The Democratic Party has cobbled together a coalition of right-wing former Republicans, generals, representatives of the state intelligence bureaucracy, members of the financial oligarchy and, most of all, the affluent suburbs, which are repeatedly invoked as the party’s target demographic.}

We will not be represented by any means.

{Outside the conflicts in Washington, however, another political force is entering onto the scene. Over the past several months, workers in major manufacturing facilities throughout America’s industrial heartland, as well as educators throughout the United States, have begun to form rank-and-file committees to resist the efforts by corporations and the government to force them to work in increasingly unsafe conditions.

Millions of workers and young people have participated in mass demonstrations—according to some, the largest protests in American history—against police violence and the Trump administration’s deployment of federal troops to American cities.}

The MSCM is doing a good job of keeping these protest under wraps. The widespread city protest how ever are harder to hide. As I stated in another post, each time the MSCM attempts none coverage another cop killing happens. Democratic representation abandoned BLM as they went home, but law enforcement hasn't abandoned their true nature.

{However much Trump may rant and rave, puffing himself up in imitation of Mussolini, the next stage in American political life will be a movement not to the right, but to the left, in a mounting social and political offensive by the working class.

This movement has not yet found its leadership. But that is coming. The increased censorship of the World Socialist Web Site and the court-sanctioned efforts to keep the Socialist Equality Party presidential ticket, Joseph Kishore and Norissa Santa Cruz, off the ballot speak to the pervading fear in the ruling class that revolutionary socialism will find a mass audience.

America is entering a revolutionary crisis, whose central characteristic will be the intersection of the historical traditions of Trotskyism, represented by the International Committee of the Fourth International, with the global mass movement of the working class.}