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The Politics of the United States - ComradeMambo - 03-27-2026
Democratic Party - Functionally a reformist capital Party, functions representatively for the professional-managerial classes. Their capital factions are tied to media, tech fields, and finance. They do NOT oppose capital but rather seek to manage and control capitalism through reforms to stabilize capitalist relation, while accepting capitalism as a reality. They pursue the stabilization of markets and to maintain social legitimacy, this is done through visible reform that does not carry the capacity to functionally change economic relations or abolish class struggle. This strategy of class compromise is accompanied by social "progressivism", focusing on other forms of exploitation and oppression, which are valid to be focused on, but are used to distract from class relations, rather than bring attention to the root problem that causes these issues.
Republican Party - Functionally a large capital party, functions directly representative for large capital owners and the accumulated capital. Their capital factions are tied to fossil fuels, real estate, and military-industrial firms. They openly promote unregulated capitalism and seek to retain current relations, if not to regress the relations to a more deregulated labor market. Their policies more closely align with increasing the rate of surplus value extraction without compromise for the Working class and actively seek to weaken bargaining power of the Workers. Their strategy of deregulation and blunt capitalism seeks to naturalize inequality through narratives of individuality and "merit", essentially framing capitalist success as a moral virtue. They use cultural or nationalist themes to organize the working-class consent without challenging capital; this distracts from the true problems and root causes by enforcing loyalty to the state rather than class.
Both of these main parties exclude anti-capitalist alternatives. This system of two parties has given the choice between two capital-compatible policies yet has not achieved the promised system of democracy that is so worshipped and praised within the United States. These major parties compete for how capitalism is managed, rather than the existence of capitalism itself, limiting consent and choice, where neither represent working class interests but present themselves as such.