The
“next day” of the November 6th Midterm Elections in the United
States finds the working masses of the country trapped between the
continuous, sharpening intra-bourgeois confrontation between the two
major parties (Republicans and Democrats).
Once again, the election
process proved that the capital is in the driver's seat while the
workers and the popular strata remain disempowered and marginalized.
Any
change in the correlation of forces between the Democrats and the
Republicans in the Senate or the House of Representatives does not
change the essense of the situation for the American people.
The
administration under President Trump will continue the pro-monopoly
policy, persisting on its growing aggression in foreign policy and
escalating the imperialist interventions throughout the world within
the competition with other powerful countries, mainly Russia and
China.
Under
the system of bourgeois democracy, elections consist a tool in the
hands of the bourgeois class in order to provide the political system
with a “mantle” of “legitimacy” and to create the illusion
that the people have given their consent to the rule of the
capitalists. Through the two-party monopoly and the extravagantly
expensive electoral campaigns, the bourgeoisie ensures that the
key-posts and seats in the political system are reserved for
representatives and servants of the big capital.
Behind
the facade of democracy, through the dominance of the Republican and
Democratic Party, the capitalists have strictly imposed their agenda
while continous disinformation campaigns are promoted in order to
disorientate public opinion from the actual issues. The working class
of the United States is in fact trapped between capitalism's Scylla
and Charybdis.
It
is true that during the last years of the capitalist economic crisis,
more and more people in the U.S. came out in protests and struggles
in various fronts, showing that a small flame of resistance burns
within American society. However, there will be no real change in
favor of the working masses unless there is a strong
class-based working movement which will directly challenge the
exploitative system.
The
only actual hope for the millions of workers in the United States
likes in the organized struggle against the real opponent – the
capitalist system and its political servants. No positive solution
will ever come from any bourgeois party or politician, no matter if
his name is Trump, Obama or Sanders. The people, under the guidance
of a strong marxist-leninist party, can concentrate their power in
organizing their own counter-attack against the authority of
monopolies, towards the overthrow of rotten capitalism and the
transformation of society.
