Challenging Capitalism & the Two Parties - Can a Left Alternative be Built?
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Moreover, this view might also not acknowledge the impact that automobile manufacturing has on the environment, politics and economics of an area. Holism, on the other hand, would view the entire chain of cause and effect that leads to — and away from — automobile manufacturing. The Capital Institute report, titled Regenerative Capitalism, emphasizes that the world economic system is closely related to, and dependent upon, the environment. According to the Capital Institute, the consequences of this economic worldview are vast and far reaching, encompassing a host of challenges that range from climate change to political instability.
For example, the current capitalist system has created extreme levels of inequality, the report says. This, in turn, has led to a host of ills, including worker abuse , sexism , economic stagnation and more. It could even be considered partly responsible for the rise of terrorism around the world, the report claims. In other words, this inequality has become a threat to the very system that is creating it.
In practice, this might lead to close analysis of supply chains, investigations of the effects of water use, circular economy initiatives, community economic development work or a host of other sustainability efforts.
the Two-Party System Can a Left Alternative to Corporate Politics Be Built?” tens of millions of Americans to challenge the agenda of the two corporate parties . and political movements that can force the elite 1% – the capitalist class – to. Challenging Capitalism and the Two Parties tiny minority needs a political system to mask its power and which can effectively build a popular base of support.
While some people associate holistic thinking with mystics or hippies, the worldview is borne out in ways that are measurable, precise and empirical. Not surprisingly, the theory underlies other scientific and social tools, such as system theory and chaos theory.
This holistic approach flies in the face of a great deal of long-held beliefs. In the United States alone, several million working-class families—including about one-third of all Black and Latino homeowners—will lose their homes through foreclosures. As well, the upward rush of oil prices has shaken economies of many countries, rich and poor.
Imperialist War on Iraq! At home, with the guidance and support of whoever wins the presidency, the capitalists will seek to make the working class sacrifice to try to maintain their profits. The strategy of whoever wins the imperial presidency will include wholesale attacks on jobs, wages and social services.
And as always, the ruling class will foster divide-and-conquer racism and national chauvinism to ensure that those attacks target Blacks, Latinos and immigrants most of all. But such politically far-sighted workers and youth have to join together now to lay the foundation for the revolutionary party leadership the working class needs to show it the way to victory.
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The League for the Revolutionary Party is dedicated to building this leadership through a combination of Marxist study and analysis and intervention in the struggles of our class. Our goal is the re-creation of a revolutionary Fourth International, a world party of socialist revolution, and the construction of a revolutionary party in the U.
But in a fashion typical of opportunists who sacrifice the strategic aims of struggle in pursuit of short-term successes, it ignores the fact that this approach helps left-liberal pro-capitalist leaders into positions of influence that they will use to betray the coming struggles and stop them from challenging the system. The revolving door of executive management between the for-profit, nonprofit, and government sectors keeps the ruling class in charge in all three sectors. Political philosophy Political theories Social democracy Social liberalism Neoliberalism Ideologies of capitalism Centrism Syncretic political movements Bill Clinton Tony Blair 20th century in politics. In attempting to maintain living standards, the working class is buried in record levels of debt. Third Way economic policies began to be challenged following the Great Recession. Their careers are at risk if they buck the system that pays them. A person enrolling under the Socialist Party emblem on registration day in this state does not thereby become a member of the Socialist Party of America.
At first glance there would seem to be great differences between McCain and Obama. On foreign policy, he plays up his military history and has made wholesale support of the Iraq War a signature issue. On domestic concerns, McCain has made tax cuts and corporate welfare for the bosses his priority.
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And he speaks of the plight of working-class and poor people with more apparent concern than his rival. The only people who may see the change they want from these elections are the U. Eight years of George W. The big capitalists and their agents openly express fear that more of the naked imperialism that defined the Bush years will trigger greater struggles of the oppressed abroad, threatening their investments from the Middle East to South America. They hope the next administration will extract the U.
Similarly at home, the rulers worry that the chasm between them and the increasingly desperate working class will spark a return to the protests, strikes and riots that have rocked this country in previous times of war and economic crisis. For these reasons, much of the American ruling class has been throwing its support behind Obama as representing change they can believe in.
His victory over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries was certainly evidence of improved racial attitudes among many white Americans.
But racism remains widespread, and a sizable minority of white Americans will never vote for a Black candidate. This anti-Black racism is unfortunately echoed even by some sectors of the Latino population, who are victims of racism themselves. Of course, Krugman does not want Obama to appeal to the working class to struggle against its exploitation by the capitalists.
A close race could force him to adopt a more populist approach. But just how far he is prepared to go to avoid encouraging working-class resentment of the system as a whole can be seen in his efforts to distance himself from the concerns and struggles of Black people, those who most readily identify with his campaign and who also account for many of the most exploited and oppressed workers.
The fact that America may well elect its first Black president is without doubt a sign of improved racial attitudes among broad numbers of whites. In a country built on the idea that Black people were the less-than-human property of whites, and in which racism is still wielded by the ruling class to divide and conquer the working class, it is an extraordinary development. But the gains won by Black people were not gifts generously bestowed by enlightened whites.
Major technical breakthroughs at the time made evasion possible. The ubiquitous availability of jet travel made movement around the globe much easier, cheaper, and faster.
Computer and telecommunications advances enabled enterprise headquarters to monitor, command and control production facilities anywhere on the planet. It suddenly became practical to move production and distribution sites from locations of high wages and taxes, to locations of poverty and weak government.
Sharp competitors led the way as, first, manufacturing and then, service jobs were increasingly "exported" or "outsourced". Laggards suffered and so learned the importance of following their more nimble competitors. Most Republicans and Democrats facilitated the process by endlessly promoting " free trade " and arguing that any constraints on free enterprises' relocations were unthinkable, inefficient and other synonyms for "really bad".
No Support to Capitalist Parties!
As more and more jobs left the US, and formerly prosperous cities and states entered long-term declines, the two parties blamed their favorite targets: The idea that capitalism and capitalists were the problem was something neither Democrats or Republicans allow into their debates and talking-points. Yet, it was precisely capitalists' profit-driven, self-interested decisions to move that have caused our economic problems. And so they remain. Order by newest oldest recommendations.
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