Tired Of Arguing Over Temporary Alliances And A Big Tent Coalition
The Establishment and Reformist Voters Will Never Truly Support Needed change.
When looking at Harris's and Stein's platforms, they are closer to each other than they are to De La Cruz's platform from 2024. Establishment supporters, even if they do so via reform, seek to uphold the current systems because, in the end, they are comfortable opportunists. Look at this platform, which is essentially Claudia's. Some rewarded platforms. Reformist platforms outside the DNC will never look like this, and reformist party candidates will never truly support such a platform, which is why a big tent coalition is about as useless as the left forming one with the DNC. Don't believe me, read on...
Seize the Biggest 100 Corporations, Create A New Economy for the People
Seize the largest 100 corporations, transferring them from billionaire owners to public, working-class ownership. This reorganizes the economy, guaranteeing basic needs, rebuilding infrastructure, and lowering prices and rents. Constitutional rights would include quality healthcare, college education, free childcare, decent housing, a living wage, and union representation. Card check unionization would be enacted. Immigrant workers would gain legal status and union inclusion, fostering solidarity. Hospitals and pharmaceutical companies would provide free care. Evictions would be banned, and rent capped at 10% of income. Inflation would be eliminated via a price freeze. A 100% tax would apply to all income and assets over ten million dollars, and all offshore corporate profits, without exception. All student loans, bail bonds, medical, and utility debt would be canceled.
Overthrow the Dictatorship of the Rich, Build a Democracy That Serves the Working Class
Overthrow the dictatorship of the rich, building a democracy for the working class. The United States needs a new government system. Tools enforcing the billionaires' dictatorship will be abolished, including the Supreme Court, Senate, and Federal Reserve. The apparatus of violence and surveillance repressing the people will be dismantled. The FBI and NSA disbanded, and mass incarceration replaced by rehabilitation and reintegration. Workers are fully capable of governing. With workers in charge, all rights will be respected. We demand full equality for LGBTQ people, and national legislation banning discrimination in workplaces and all institutions. Native sovereignty, self determination, and treaty rights will be fully recognized and honored. We seek to overturn the social order, toppling those with money and power who do no work. The new, socialist government would be based on the direct exercise of power by workers. A true democracy encourages organizations like youth climate corps, neighborhood associations, student groups, unions, and civic organizations as instruments for people to identify problems and take action together.
End the Rule of Money and Lock Up the Corrupt Elite
Bribery in America, known as corporate lobbying, must be outlawed. Politicians should be banned from corporate board or executive positions after leaving office. All Wall Street bailouts would end. Millionaires and billionaires should no longer fund elections through lavish donations. Campaigning should be publicly financed, and Super PAC loopholes closed. Under a workers' democracy, war criminals and Wall Street con artists would face justice for their crimes. Corruption is bipartisan within the U.S. ruling class. Individuals like Hunter Biden and Jared Kushner abuse power for income and evade laws. Some ultrarich facilitate crimes, such as JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, whose bank counted Jeffrey Epstein as a client. The wrong people are incarcerated. Corrupt capitalists, not millions of impoverished individuals, should be held accountable.
End All U.S. Aid to Apartheid Israel. End the Genocide and Free Palestine
We support the Palestinian people's fight for freedom and an end to the Gaza genocide. We have actively participated in the US movement since October 7, demonstrating our commitment to Palestinian liberation. We demand an immediate end to all US aid to Israel. Our tax dollars should address domestic needs, not fund weapons used in Gaza. US diplomatic support enabling Israel's crimes, including UN veto power, must cease. We advocate repealing anti BDS laws and ending repression against pro Palestine protesters. The Palestinian people have heroically resisted genocide and occupation for over 76 years. We stand in solidarity with their struggle for freedom from the river to the sea.
Cut the Military Budget by 90%, Peace Not War with China & Russia!
Cut the military budget by 90%, promoting peace over conflict with China and Russia. End the new Cold War and associated aggressions such as the proxy war in Ukraine and military buildup against any nation. Immediately close all Pentagon military bases abroad. Abolish NATO and AFRICOM. Lift cruel economic sanctions on countries including Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, North Korea, and Iran. End all U.S. aid to apartheid Israel. Abolish the CIA and expose its crimes. Redirect the approximately $1 trillion U.S. military budget annually to address working people's crises. Lifting suffocating economic sanctions would dramatically lower prices of key goods like gas. Humanity requires a world order based on cooperation and peace, not domination and war. The 'cold war' ended over 30 years ago, its time to end western imperialism and put an end to the spread of chauvinistic cold war indoctrination and bring about world peace.
End the War on Black America and Other Marginalized Groups!
The 2020 uprising for Black freedom responded to a historical war on Black America, from slavery and segregation to systemic racism, neoliberalism, and mass incarceration, exacerbating inequality. Reparations and rebuilding Black communities are essential. Seizing the 100 largest corporations, many historically profiting from slavery, can fund cash payments and investments in services and infrastructure. Beyond reparations, we advocate for comprehensive measures to end oppression. Affirmative action programs should expand. Police responsible for racist brutality must face long prison sentences to end impunity. We oppose whitewashing U.S. history and support education on white supremacy and racism's eradication. Healthcare system transformation must prioritize eliminating disparities in Black maternal mortality rates. Furthermore, our commitment extends to all marginalized groups. We must end perpetual foreigner discrimination and stereotypes, stop the terror and put an end to the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous peoples, and eradicate xenophobic beliefs surrounding Muslims and Middle Eastern communities.
Defend Women’s Rights, Full Equality for LGBTQ People
Ensure abortion access without restrictions and for free, upholding bodily autonomy for all. The Supreme Court's Dobbs decision was a setback, enabled by Democratic inaction on federal abortion legislation. Immediate federal legislation is needed, along with measures guaranteeing on demand abortion services regardless of income. Address the epidemic of violence against women as a top societal priority through comprehensive programs assisting abuse victims, ending impunity for crimes against women, and cultural campaigns combating sexism. The constitution must guarantee equal rights for women. Demand full equality for LGBTQ people in all societal areas, ending right wing scapegoating. Enact national legislation banning discrimination against LGBTQ individuals in workplaces and all public and private institutions.
Save the Planet from Capitalism
To address the climate crisis, society must urgently transform energy production, food cultivation, and global transportation. The primary impediment is private profit and a system prioritizing quarterly revenue over human survival. Action at the necessary scale and speed to save the planet requires replacing the unplanned capitalist economic system with socialist economic planning. Fossil fuel corporations should be publicly acquired and repurposed for renewable energy generation. Capitalist agriculture is immensely wasteful, particularly regarding water. Agribusiness landholdings and technological resources would be seized and given to farmers to implement a democratically determined plan for sustainable food production. Public transportation will see massive expansion with an entirely electric fleet, ensuring no autoworker job loss. Immediate, large scale infrastructure projects are essential to bolster societal resilience to climate change while creating millions of well paying jobs.
WHY WE NEED TO BUILD A SOCIALIST MOVEMENT
We need to build a socialist movement because current societal injustices and issues stem from power concentrated in a few wealthy capitalists. Socialism empowers working people politically and economically to meet everyone's needs and preserve the planet. Many common sense solutions are impossible under billionaire rule. Humanity faces existential crises like climate catastrophe, massive job losses from unmanaged AI, and war between the US and other nuclear armed powers. The capitalist government, serving big banks, big tech, big oil, and the military industrial complex, drives these crises and proves inept in addressing them, prioritizing profit over people. Though the government made beneficial concessions in 2020 to prevent collapse, these measures were quickly eliminated, worsening housing, public health, and debt. Most of the country lives paycheck to paycheck, costs have skyrocketed, and the wealthiest have doubled their fortunes. Politicians falsely claim nothing can be done. Resources exist to solve humanity's problems. The only obstacles are politicians managing affairs for super profiting billionaires. The diverse working class, not a small clique of billionaires, needs to control the economy and create long term plans. Only a revolution, not an election, can end billionaire rule, but this program outlines how to begin building an independent political organization for socialism.
We Need Revolutionaries, Not Reformists, for Collective Oneness and Obligatory Stewardship
Claudia De La Cruz's platform explicitly called for a complete systemic overhaul: seizing the 100 largest corporations, abolishing foundational government institutions like the Supreme Court, Senate, and Federal Reserve, and dismantling the FBI and NSA. It advocates for a 90% military budget cut, abolition of NATO and AFRICOM, and an end to all US aid to Israel. Her platform's core premise is that capitalism is the root cause of societal problems and only a revolution, not an election, can achieve necessary changes. It explicitly states, "Only a revolution, not an election, can end the rule of the billionaires once and for all." We believe incremental reforms, even significant ones, are limited by a system designed to benefit the wealthy elite. Supporters of Claudia's platform would not vote for Stein's platform, viewing it as reformist rather than revolutionary. From our perspective, voting for a candidate considered radical within the mainstream political spectrum attempts to fix a system we believe needs to be overthrown entirely. We need a platform advocating more radical, revolutionary changes. Stein and the Green Party largely operate within the existing political and economic framework, pushing its boundaries but not calling for capitalism's overthrow or core governmental structures' immediate dismantling. They seek to influence the existing Supreme Court, expand voting rights within the current system, and reform existing agencies like the FDA and CDC. Participating in electoral politics, especially by supporting a candidate who does not advocate for capitalism's complete abolition and the existing state apparatus, serves to legitimize and perpetuate the system we seek to dismantle. Such a vote is a compromise ultimately detracting from the revolutionary effort required to achieve our goals.
This revolutionary path, distinct from reformism, is essential to achieve a future based on egalitarian collective oneness and obligatory stewardship of humanity and the planet through democratic centralism. Only by eliminating the divisive profit motive and the instruments of class rule can humanity fully realize its interconnectedness. Democratic centralism ensures that power is truly vested in the working class, enabling unified, swift action to address existential crises like climate change and inequality, prioritizing the well being of the entire human species and the planet over individual gain. This shared vision and centralized, democratic execution are indispensable for the survival and flourishing of all and can only be achieved through communism, international communism at that. We are incompatible with the establishment and with reformism, we are humanity.
When looking at Harris's and Stein's platforms, they are closer to each other than they are to De La Cruz's platform from 2024. Establishment supporters, even if they do so via reform, seek to uphold the current systems because, in the end, they are comfortable opportunists. Look at this platform, which is essentially Claudia's. Some rewarded platforms. Reformist platforms outside the DNC will never look like this, and reformist party candidates will never truly support such a platform, which is why a big tent coalition is about as useless as the left forming one with the DNC. Don't believe me, read on...
Seize the Biggest 100 Corporations, Create A New Economy for the People
Seize the largest 100 corporations, transferring them from billionaire owners to public, working-class ownership. This reorganizes the economy, guaranteeing basic needs, rebuilding infrastructure, and lowering prices and rents. Constitutional rights would include quality healthcare, college education, free childcare, decent housing, a living wage, and union representation. Card check unionization would be enacted. Immigrant workers would gain legal status and union inclusion, fostering solidarity. Hospitals and pharmaceutical companies would provide free care. Evictions would be banned, and rent capped at 10% of income. Inflation would be eliminated via a price freeze. A 100% tax would apply to all income and assets over ten million dollars, and all offshore corporate profits, without exception. All student loans, bail bonds, medical, and utility debt would be canceled.
Overthrow the Dictatorship of the Rich, Build a Democracy That Serves the Working Class
Overthrow the dictatorship of the rich, building a democracy for the working class. The United States needs a new government system. Tools enforcing the billionaires' dictatorship will be abolished, including the Supreme Court, Senate, and Federal Reserve. The apparatus of violence and surveillance repressing the people will be dismantled. The FBI and NSA disbanded, and mass incarceration replaced by rehabilitation and reintegration. Workers are fully capable of governing. With workers in charge, all rights will be respected. We demand full equality for LGBTQ people, and national legislation banning discrimination in workplaces and all institutions. Native sovereignty, self determination, and treaty rights will be fully recognized and honored. We seek to overturn the social order, toppling those with money and power who do no work. The new, socialist government would be based on the direct exercise of power by workers. A true democracy encourages organizations like youth climate corps, neighborhood associations, student groups, unions, and civic organizations as instruments for people to identify problems and take action together.
End the Rule of Money and Lock Up the Corrupt Elite
Bribery in America, known as corporate lobbying, must be outlawed. Politicians should be banned from corporate board or executive positions after leaving office. All Wall Street bailouts would end. Millionaires and billionaires should no longer fund elections through lavish donations. Campaigning should be publicly financed, and Super PAC loopholes closed. Under a workers' democracy, war criminals and Wall Street con artists would face justice for their crimes. Corruption is bipartisan within the U.S. ruling class. Individuals like Hunter Biden and Jared Kushner abuse power for income and evade laws. Some ultrarich facilitate crimes, such as JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, whose bank counted Jeffrey Epstein as a client. The wrong people are incarcerated. Corrupt capitalists, not millions of impoverished individuals, should be held accountable.
End All U.S. Aid to Apartheid Israel. End the Genocide and Free Palestine
We support the Palestinian people's fight for freedom and an end to the Gaza genocide. We have actively participated in the US movement since October 7, demonstrating our commitment to Palestinian liberation. We demand an immediate end to all US aid to Israel. Our tax dollars should address domestic needs, not fund weapons used in Gaza. US diplomatic support enabling Israel's crimes, including UN veto power, must cease. We advocate repealing anti BDS laws and ending repression against pro Palestine protesters. The Palestinian people have heroically resisted genocide and occupation for over 76 years. We stand in solidarity with their struggle for freedom from the river to the sea.
Cut the Military Budget by 90%, Peace Not War with China & Russia!
Cut the military budget by 90%, promoting peace over conflict with China and Russia. End the new Cold War and associated aggressions such as the proxy war in Ukraine and military buildup against any nation. Immediately close all Pentagon military bases abroad. Abolish NATO and AFRICOM. Lift cruel economic sanctions on countries including Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, North Korea, and Iran. End all U.S. aid to apartheid Israel. Abolish the CIA and expose its crimes. Redirect the approximately $1 trillion U.S. military budget annually to address working people's crises. Lifting suffocating economic sanctions would dramatically lower prices of key goods like gas. Humanity requires a world order based on cooperation and peace, not domination and war. The 'cold war' ended over 30 years ago, its time to end western imperialism and put an end to the spread of chauvinistic cold war indoctrination and bring about world peace.
End the War on Black America and Other Marginalized Groups!
The 2020 uprising for Black freedom responded to a historical war on Black America, from slavery and segregation to systemic racism, neoliberalism, and mass incarceration, exacerbating inequality. Reparations and rebuilding Black communities are essential. Seizing the 100 largest corporations, many historically profiting from slavery, can fund cash payments and investments in services and infrastructure. Beyond reparations, we advocate for comprehensive measures to end oppression. Affirmative action programs should expand. Police responsible for racist brutality must face long prison sentences to end impunity. We oppose whitewashing U.S. history and support education on white supremacy and racism's eradication. Healthcare system transformation must prioritize eliminating disparities in Black maternal mortality rates. Furthermore, our commitment extends to all marginalized groups. We must end perpetual foreigner discrimination and stereotypes, stop the terror and put an end to the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous peoples, and eradicate xenophobic beliefs surrounding Muslims and Middle Eastern communities.
Defend Women’s Rights, Full Equality for LGBTQ People
Ensure abortion access without restrictions and for free, upholding bodily autonomy for all. The Supreme Court's Dobbs decision was a setback, enabled by Democratic inaction on federal abortion legislation. Immediate federal legislation is needed, along with measures guaranteeing on demand abortion services regardless of income. Address the epidemic of violence against women as a top societal priority through comprehensive programs assisting abuse victims, ending impunity for crimes against women, and cultural campaigns combating sexism. The constitution must guarantee equal rights for women. Demand full equality for LGBTQ people in all societal areas, ending right wing scapegoating. Enact national legislation banning discrimination against LGBTQ individuals in workplaces and all public and private institutions.
Save the Planet from Capitalism
To address the climate crisis, society must urgently transform energy production, food cultivation, and global transportation. The primary impediment is private profit and a system prioritizing quarterly revenue over human survival. Action at the necessary scale and speed to save the planet requires replacing the unplanned capitalist economic system with socialist economic planning. Fossil fuel corporations should be publicly acquired and repurposed for renewable energy generation. Capitalist agriculture is immensely wasteful, particularly regarding water. Agribusiness landholdings and technological resources would be seized and given to farmers to implement a democratically determined plan for sustainable food production. Public transportation will see massive expansion with an entirely electric fleet, ensuring no autoworker job loss. Immediate, large scale infrastructure projects are essential to bolster societal resilience to climate change while creating millions of well paying jobs.
WHY WE NEED TO BUILD A SOCIALIST MOVEMENT
We need to build a socialist movement because current societal injustices and issues stem from power concentrated in a few wealthy capitalists. Socialism empowers working people politically and economically to meet everyone's needs and preserve the planet. Many common sense solutions are impossible under billionaire rule. Humanity faces existential crises like climate catastrophe, massive job losses from unmanaged AI, and war between the US and other nuclear armed powers. The capitalist government, serving big banks, big tech, big oil, and the military industrial complex, drives these crises and proves inept in addressing them, prioritizing profit over people. Though the government made beneficial concessions in 2020 to prevent collapse, these measures were quickly eliminated, worsening housing, public health, and debt. Most of the country lives paycheck to paycheck, costs have skyrocketed, and the wealthiest have doubled their fortunes. Politicians falsely claim nothing can be done. Resources exist to solve humanity's problems. The only obstacles are politicians managing affairs for super profiting billionaires. The diverse working class, not a small clique of billionaires, needs to control the economy and create long term plans. Only a revolution, not an election, can end billionaire rule, but this program outlines how to begin building an independent political organization for socialism.
We Need Revolutionaries, Not Reformists, for Collective Oneness and Obligatory Stewardship
Claudia De La Cruz's platform explicitly called for a complete systemic overhaul: seizing the 100 largest corporations, abolishing foundational government institutions like the Supreme Court, Senate, and Federal Reserve, and dismantling the FBI and NSA. It advocates for a 90% military budget cut, abolition of NATO and AFRICOM, and an end to all US aid to Israel. Her platform's core premise is that capitalism is the root cause of societal problems and only a revolution, not an election, can achieve necessary changes. It explicitly states, "Only a revolution, not an election, can end the rule of the billionaires once and for all." We believe incremental reforms, even significant ones, are limited by a system designed to benefit the wealthy elite. Supporters of Claudia's platform would not vote for Stein's platform, viewing it as reformist rather than revolutionary. From our perspective, voting for a candidate considered radical within the mainstream political spectrum attempts to fix a system we believe needs to be overthrown entirely. We need a platform advocating more radical, revolutionary changes. Stein and the Green Party largely operate within the existing political and economic framework, pushing its boundaries but not calling for capitalism's overthrow or core governmental structures' immediate dismantling. They seek to influence the existing Supreme Court, expand voting rights within the current system, and reform existing agencies like the FDA and CDC. Participating in electoral politics, especially by supporting a candidate who does not advocate for capitalism's complete abolition and the existing state apparatus, serves to legitimize and perpetuate the system we seek to dismantle. Such a vote is a compromise ultimately detracting from the revolutionary effort required to achieve our goals.
This revolutionary path, distinct from reformism, is essential to achieve a future based on egalitarian collective oneness and obligatory stewardship of humanity and the planet through democratic centralism. Only by eliminating the divisive profit motive and the instruments of class rule can humanity fully realize its interconnectedness. Democratic centralism ensures that power is truly vested in the working class, enabling unified, swift action to address existential crises like climate change and inequality, prioritizing the well being of the entire human species and the planet over individual gain. This shared vision and centralized, democratic execution are indispensable for the survival and flourishing of all and can only be achieved through communism, international communism at that. We are incompatible with the establishment and with reformism, we are humanity.
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