Franklin Roosevelt succeeded in undercutting the growth of left-wing political movements in the mid-1930s by adopting much of the rhetoric of the left and co-opting many of its leaders.
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The fact that left-wing parties did not make significant inroads during the Great Depression dramatically demonstrated not only the power of America’s coalitional two-party system to dissuade a national third party but also the deeply antistatist, individualistic character of its electorate.

Why Liberals Hate Poor White Trash

October 14, 2020October 14, 2020 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

But it would be insufficient to suggest that liberals only hate white trash because they vote for Republicans. The term “liberal,” in the popular imagination, has become synonymous with upper-middle-class white urbanites, a stereotype borne out by statistics. They are a well-educated cohort—widely-read enough to understand the problems with society and capitalism but too insecure in their position to do anything that might challenge the system that has brought them relative benefit—and therefore enjoy programs which give the surface-level appearance of progress and equality. This explains their support for means-tested social programs, LGBT rights, the importation of cheap labor (under the guise of diversity), their veganism, and—most recently—their frankly fetishistic fixation on the concept of white privilege, completely devoid of any class analysis whatsoever.
Why Liberals Hate Poor White Trash

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Culture War or Class War: What’s Behind Liberals’ Contempt for Poor “White Trash?”

Karl Marx Believed in Democracy

October 11, 2020October 11, 2020 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Karl Marx Believed in Democracy (Archived)

Right-wingers claim that Karl Marx was a totalitarian thinker who had little respect for democracy – but he was a vocal supporter of the movements for democracy in his own time, when the costs were often significant.

NGOs: In the Service of Imperialism

October 3, 2020October 3, 2020 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

NGOs: In the Service of Imperialism

Gaza portends to what the ruling class will do to prevent the poor from rising up

September 28, 2020September 28, 2020 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Gaza portends to what the ruling class will do to prevent the poor from rising up

BLM’s War on the Deplorables

September 19, 2020September 19, 2020 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

BLM’s War on the Deplorables

We can assume that BLM is largely an invention of ruling class elites to divert attention from the collapsing economy and the unprecedented human catastrophe that will follow shortly after the election. The plan involves shifting public attention to divisive racial issues that put working people at each other’s throats while concealing the vicious class war that is being prosecuted behind the shield of a fake social justice movement.

Trump Knows What He’s Doing – He Needs to Go Now

September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Trump Knows What He’s Doing – He Needs to Go Now

As a longtime left Marxist, I think I would know if the Black Lives Matter movement shared my world view. It doesn’t. Black Lives Matter, whatever exactly it is, does not advocate multi-racial working-class socialist revolution, workers’ control, the collective ownership of the means of production, and the dismantlement of the American capitalist Empire. The sixteen-chapter organization that calls itself the Black Lives Matter Network (formed in 2013) would not have received millions of dollars from the Ford Foundation and various corporate sponsors if it advocated those things.
I have been to numerous “Black Lives Matter” rallies and have never once heard echoes of the original Black Panther Party’s call for multi-racial proletarian revolution. The rallies (whose causes I have supported, including the defunding of the nation’s racist mass incarceration and police state) have been oriented around race, with no or very little reference to class, and no white speakers allowed. The slogan is fairly mild – nothing like “Black Power” or “All Power to the People.”

New York University moves to implement racial segregation in student dorms

August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

New York University moves to implement racial segregation in student dorms

Identity politics solely serves the interests of the wealthy and privileged layer of society that has profited from the suffering of the working class. Specifically, it is the primary mechanism through which the “next 9 percent,” directly below the top 1 percent, seeks to achieve a more equal distribution of wealth within the top 10 percent of society. This layer, the upper-middle class, has no more qualms over exploiting the working masses for personal gain than the corporate, financial oligarchs at the very top of society.