One Fascist Corporate Party, Two Cult Divisions

You read the title, you know it's true. You're here, either to backup your beliefs, or to double down your support for one of the two cults.

The 1860s Foundation

The Republican Party emerged to serve Northern industrial capital against the slave-plantation economy, not because slavery was immoral, but because it blocked wage-labor expansion and territorial development. The Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction: both parties negotiated the withdrawal of federal troops from the South, surrendering Black Americans to apartheid by negotiation. The shared principle established from the start: property rights supersede human rights, always.

Anti-Labor: 1870s through 1930s

Both parties deployed federal force, Pinkertons, National Guard, and the Army, against organized labor throughout the Gilded Age. When FDR incorporated unions into the Democratic coalition via the Wagner Act, it was not a class alliance; it was a containment operation. Legal recognition was the price for redirecting militant labor energy away from socialist and communist alternatives that were genuinely growing in the 1930s. Republicans called it too much. The left correctly identified it as co-optation. Both were describing the same function.

Anti-Communism as Shared State Religion

HUAC was a bipartisan project. Democrats ran it for years. The Hollywood blacklist, the Smith Act prosecutions of CPUSA leadership, loyalty oaths, all proceeded with Democratic participation and often Democratic initiative. Truman's loyalty program in 1947 predates McCarthy by years. The National Security Act of 1947, creating the CIA and the permanent warfare state, passed with overwhelming bipartisan votes. Anti-communism was never a Republican pathology. It was the foundational doctrine of the postwar American state, enforced by both parties as the ideological cement of the ruling-class consensus.

Civil Rights: The Sleight of Hand

The "party switch" narrative obscures more than it explains. LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act and immediately escalated Vietnam, massacring Vietnamese communists while managing domestic Black rebellion through token reform and COINTELPRO. COINTELPRO was not a partisan program; it was a state program, run under Democratic and Republican administrations alike, systematically destroying the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and CPUSA. Both parties supplied the sanction. Neither ended it voluntarily. And many civil rights leaders got assassinated by 'the fox and the wolf.'

The Carceral State: Joint Construction

Nixon's war on drugs (1971), Carter's expansion, Reagan's acceleration, Clinton's 1994 Crime Bill with Biden as one of its primary architects and overwhelming Democratic congressional support, mandatory minimums both parties voted for repeatedly. Mass incarceration, disproportionately Black, Brown, and poor, is the physical monument of their shared class project. No individual administration built it. Both parties built it together over decades.

Financial Deregulation: Shared Gift to Capital

Glass-Steagall repeal in 1999: signed by Clinton, passed by a Republican Congress, with Democratic votes. The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000: same coalition. Both pieces of legislation directly enabled the 2008 collapse. TARP passed bipartisan under Bush with Democratic congressional leadership. Not one major bank was nationalized. Not one executive prosecuted. Obama staffed his Treasury with the same Wall Street architects who engineered the deregulation. The working class lost homes. Capital was made whole. Both parties built the ramp and cleaned up afterward.

Imperialism: The Most Consistent Agreement

Gulf War (1991), bipartisan. Yugoslavia bombing (1999), Democratic-led. Iraq War authorization (2002), Biden, Clinton, and Kerry all voted yes. Libya (2011), Democratic-led. The drone assassination program, Obama expanded it into seven countries. The NDAA passes every single year, bipartisan, without serious debate. Roughly 800 overseas military installations, and neither party has ever seriously moved to close a significant share. Pentagon funding makes every domestic social spending debate a rounding error. This is not a policy dispute between the parties. It is the one area of total consensus.

The Genocide: Bipartisan Bankrolling from 2023 Forward

When Israel's assault on Gaza began following October 7, 2023, both parties funded and defended it at the institutional level. The Biden administration deployed warships, provided billions in military aid, expedited weapons shipments, and vetoed three UN Security Council resolutions calling for a humanitarian ceasefire. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Israel_in_the_Gaza_war) The executive director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights identified the institutional reality plainly: "There is a bipartisan effort to dehumanize the Palestinian people." [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Israel_in_the_Gaza_war)

In April 2024, Democrats in Congress approved the package. The legislation combined multiple bills, providing $26 billion in aid for Israel including approximately $9 billion in global humanitarian aid. [Responsible Statecraft](https://responsiblestatecraft.org/democrats-voted-for-israel-aid/) When Bernie Sanders attempted to strip offensive military aid and restore UNRWA funding, no Democrats, including some who had raised concerns about Israel's war, supported Sanders's effort. [Responsible Statecraft](https://responsiblestatecraft.org/democrats-voted-for-israel-aid/) The Democratic press operation then buried its own fingerprints: House and Senate Democrats' press releases did not mention Israel at all [Responsible Statecraft](https://responsiblestatecraft.org/democrats-voted-for-israel-aid/) when summarizing a bill that included nearly $4 billion in direct military assistance to Israel.

The funding pipeline ran through AIPAC, which operates across both parties without distinction. AIPAC spent more than $16 million on Republican congressional candidates in 2024 and $25 million on Democrats. [Washington Examiner](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3803235/war-israel-gaza-aipac-backed-house-democrats-reject-2026-cash/) Bipartisan bribery is still bipartisan.

What the Democrat-voting base thought is irrelevant to what the institution did. The Democratic Party's 2024 platform insisted that billions in unconditional military aid to Israel remain "ironclad," [In These Times](https://inthesetimes.com/article/dnc-israel-gaza-palestine-democrats-ceasefire-genocide) even as more than two-thirds of registered Democrats said Israel's actions in Gaza constituted genocide or were akin to genocide. [In These Times](https://inthesetimes.com/article/dnc-israel-gaza-palestine-democrats-ceasefire-genocide) The party leadership made its class allegiances explicit by ignoring its own voters. The gap between what the Democratic base wanted and what the Democratic institution did is the clearest demonstration that the institution does not represent its voters; it represents its donors.

The ICJ issued provisional measures finding a plausible case for genocide. The ICC sought arrest warrants. Neither party in Congress moved to condition, suspend, or cease military support in any binding legislative way in response to either ruling.

The Anti-Communist Legislative Record: 2023 through 2025

Three distinct legislative actions document the bipartisan anti-communist consensus in concrete vote counts.

February 2023: The House passed H.Con.Res. 9 on a 328 to 86 vote, with 109 Democrats joining every Republican. The resolution declared Congress's opposition to socialism in all its forms and enshrined the foundational anti-Marxist metaphysical claim, individual sanctity versus collectivism, as official bipartisan congressional doctrine. Democratic objections were not ideological. Steny Hoyer complained the resolution did not also condemn entitlement cuts while explicitly reaffirming that capitalism had "proven to be the very best economic system." His objection was procedural. His capitalism was not in question.

December 2024: The House passed the Crucial Communism Teaching Act, H.R. 5349, 327 to 62, with 43 members not voting. [Common Dreams](https://www.commondreams.org/news/democrat-socialist) Democrats and Republicans voted to pass the bill in similar proportions, and the overwhelming majority of the so-called progressive caucus also voted in favor. [Truthout](https://truthout.org/articles/house-passes-resolution-condemning-socialism-ahead-of-mamdani-white-house-visit/) The bill directs the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation to develop a civic education curriculum and oral history resources for high school students [Deseret News](https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/11/21/resolution-denouncing-socialism-passes/) framing communism and totalitarianism as threats to American democracy. The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation is a neoconservative state-adjacent organization whose curriculum reflects Cold War propaganda as institutional pedagogy. Democrats on the Rules Committee attempted to add an amendment clarifying that fascism is also a political ideology [Representative Nicole Malliotakis](https://malliotakis.house.gov/media/in-the-news/dozens-house-dems-join-gop-denounce-socialism) warranting condemnation. The Republican majority defeated it. Fascism again did not qualify. Only the left is the enemy. Democrats voted for the bill anyway.

November 2025: Hours before democratic socialist NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani arrived in Washington, the House passed another anti-socialism resolution 285 to 98, with nearly half of Democrats joining all Republicans in support. Eighty-six Democrats voted yes, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who had only endorsed Mamdani in the final days of the mayoral race. Nina Turner identified the structural truth precisely: "House Minority Leader Jeffries voting with the GOP in favor of this resolution is showing his ultrawealthy donors exactly who he fights for. It's not the people."

Read together, these three votes are not rhetorical positions. They are a legislative record. Both parties have voted, repeatedly and across multiple congressional sessions, to codify anti-communism as official state doctrine, fund state-aligned anti-communist education, and enshrine capitalist individualism as the foundational metaphysics of American governance. The left is not imagining this. It is in the congressional record.

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The Anti-Antifa / Fascism-Enabling Convergence

Both parties have condemned antifa. Pelosi condemned antifa activists in Berkeley in 2017. Biden condemned antifa in September 2020. No equivalent bipartisan resolution condemning neo-Nazis passed the House after Charlottesville. When Trump called Charlottesville a "both sides" situation, no bipartisan rebuke produced binding legislation or formal congressional condemnation. The asymmetry is structural: anti-fascist organizing is treated as equivalent to or worse than fascist organizing by both party establishments.

Democratic leadership does not merely fail to defend antifa; it actively condemns it, burning the left's only serious street-level counter to fascist organizing, while accepting normal order with a Republican Party that has mainstreamed white nationalist rhetoric, incorporated open white nationalists into its coalition, and had its president attempt a coup. The Democratic response to January 6 was impeachment theater, then negotiation, then bipartisan defense budget votes, then normal order. No structural accountability. No rupture in institutional cooperation.

The Trump administration has labeled anti-capitalists and anti-fascists as terrorists. The Democratic Party's institutional response has been to vote alongside Republicans condemning socialism three separate times in two years. The left gets criminalized from the right and ideologically abandoned from the alleged center. Both operations serve the same function: clearing the field of any politics that threatens capital.

The Structural Verdict

Since 1877, both parties have maintained unbroken agreement on capitalist private property as permanent and sacred; the American imperial project as legitimate and self-funding; communist, socialist, and anti-fascist organizing as the primary internal threat, not fascism; the wage-labor relation as the natural condition of human beings; electoral proceduralism as the only legitimate politics; and the carceral state as solution rather than problem.

Everything else, the cultural menu of abortion, guns, immigration tone, trans rights, is what the working class gets to fight over while both institutions serve the same ruling-class meal regardless of outcome.

Lenin's 1917 diagnosis requires no modification: two parties, one class, one state. The 2023 through 2025 legislative record on anti-communism and genocide financing is not a deviation from this pattern. It is the most recent confirmation of it.

If you vote for these parties you are a complicit cultist and deserve every criticism thrown your way, accusing you of being a fascist, colonizer, and human rights violator. And it's backed up by many theorists and analysts like Eric Beerbohm. Not to mention louis Hartz and the shared American Ideology, when he spoke of the liberal tradition. And how many have said that either liberalism was a variant of fascism or that all capitalism leads to fascism, Losurdo, Etc.? Remember fascism is always capitalism in decay.