No matter what happens on election day, the further building of the anti-MAGA, anti-Republican Party coalition – including the Democratic Party – outward and downward will remain a strategic political objective of the first order. It is only on this ground – and no other ground – that a decisive victory over the MAGA bloc comes within our grasp and a durable, muscular, and non-sectarian left makes its appearence.

How else but through the vector of sustantive and robust democracy in the workplace and far beyond can working people and their allies leave their stamp on socialist society? Or, to frame it differently, how can a society evolve into a socialist direction in more than name without a many sided, real, and vibrant democracy – not simply formal and declarative – in which the formerly left out and underrepresented exercise an overarching influence in every area of life?

People lament the political polarization in our country. Fair enough, but the only way to end it is by crushing the Republican Party – the party of polarization – at the ballot box. Analyses that blame both parties for the present polarization in our politics are misguided and sow confusion. They construct a false equivalency between the two parities where there is none.