Dear Communist Caucus,
Hello! I’m contacting you, as well as several of the other caucuses of the DSA, in an effort to form a united front for the establishment of a Labor Party, which I believe this country sorely and desperately needs. Now more than ever, in fact, as both working people in the US, and the people of Palestine, are being increasingly crushed and oppressed under the boot of Capital, and its continual crises.
The workers movement is in a bad state, it is true, and its own self-consciousness is deeply divided. But, this divided and fracturing consciousness only makes the question of the party all the more necessary and urgent. Our consciousness fractures into independent sections because of the failure of bourgeois society to address the tasks confronting it by the state of emergency it finds itself in. This continuing failure, in turn, gives bourgeois society the material it needs to reproduce itself through wielding the worker’s own consciousness against themselves, resulting in the recreation of increasingly degenerated states of iteration.
The only sure way out of this loop is through the working class creating and seizing a power all its own, meaning the class, in itself, must create a party for itself. The class is more than ripe for such party formation; we exist and are organized, in ourselves, our unions, etc, yet we have not yet enacted (or discovered?) how to act for ourselves. It is in this pursuit of discovery, then, that I invite and encourage the formation of a united front amongst socialist intellectuals. To conquer our fracture and division in consciousness, the organized working class must unite with intellectuals in political struggle, meaning we must form a Party; offer resources and facilitation for democratic representation, and for workers to build hegemony for themselves, by their own agency. It is only through the workers possessing such an organ, responsible ultimately, and only, to them, that such fractured consciousness has any hope of healing, through the classes own dialectical action on the political arena; only in such action does the Class ever truly come to know itself. But such action requires a leap of faith, by intellectuals. Thus, it is my sincere wish that Communist Caucus will join the United Front effort to establish a labor party in the United States, as we hope many other sections of the United States organized socialist intellectuals will as well, in a united effort that is sorely needed to give a political voice to workers.
I look forward to hearing back!
Sincerely yours,
Aimee Zee
