Socialist Progressives
In reply to the discussion: How do you participate on this site? [View all]yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)We live under an entrenched 2-party political system. We have a vibrant, powerful capitalistic economic system. We have a bought-off, fat, happy, complacent proletariat.
And we have a world of have and have-not nations and peoples.
We are in the midst of revolutionary globalization. Capital injections are creating prosperous working people and middle-classes around the world, transforming lives. We are engaged in intricate, complex economic and financial relationships with nation after nation. We have partners, not adversaries.
The Democratic Party pushes for social and economic justice. We expand individual rights and freedoms. That can't be argued. We attempt as best we can to at least impede the natural inclination of capitalism to pursue profit at any cost, through regulation and legislation. We attempt to use progressive policies to reduce income inequality and transfer excessive wealth to programs for the impoverished and have-nots. We try to make the capitalist system a little less exploitative.
There will be a time when the world will have a real working class. When the world will rise up against exploitation! When there will be something to fight for, not just more poverty and hunger!
And our best and greatest ideal should always be democracy! Democracy should be our Number 1 export!
"Democracy is the road to socialism!"
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