The United States of America has never been and never will be a democracy unless by “democracy” you mean Athenian.
It began as a slaveowners’ republic and it transitioned into a shareholders’ republic. Now fascism seeks to abolish even that minimal “democracy” in order to more fully realize America’s most racist, nationalist, antidemocratic traditions.
Yes, there’s a difference in severity between chattel, wage, and death camp slavery and yet the oppression and exploitation by a racist ruling class persists despite and across these differences. It is a transition between one mode of bourgeois rule to another, from the old labor regime to the new. This is a tendency that is particularly exemplified by the popular saying that “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”
I am not so much interested in maintaining the rule of class society but with the aesthetic and illusion of freedom just as I am not interested in a class society which rejects even that illusion. I reject the legitimacy of class society to structure labor and politics at all and demand without compromise the revolutionary democracy of the working class and oppressed nations.
Our enemies are not only those who oppose any form of democracy but also those antidemocratic state leaders who nonetheless speak in great platitudes about the virtues of what is ultimately a bourgeois republicanism that serves only the interests of the bourgeoisie while claiming to be in the interests of all classes.
That is the clarion call of the radical masses - the recognition of what we lack, the potential of what could be, and a combativeness towards the enemy who declares himself our enemy and the enemy who declares himself our friend. This land is not a democracy, but it could be.
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