Dear North Star 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.
This state of affairs certainly threatens our Democracy, and moreover, the capacity for the working class to finally (in our country) establish for itself a political (representative) and democratic voice all its own. My firm belief is that only the working class can save and renew urban democracy from the authoritarian decay that it (democracy) has created for itself in society. But to accomplish this, it needs a proper tool, all its own, to be able to interface with civil society on equal footing. This tool is a political party. Even if such a Party cannot, immediately, nominate and elect candidates of its own, such a party is necessary as an institutional prerequisite to establish the political hegemony to make such candidates viable in the future. This process of building hegemony can, however, only be done by building a workers party, but can also include that party endorsing candidates using the democratic party ballot line as transitional step, if it decides to do so.
As workers, we all instinctively feel that our hegemony is the only path to the future; more than feel, many of us know it. But that hegemony must be properly organized in order for our path to be viable; we must seize it, otherwise our path will be sold out to those wishing for it to serve their own. Those parties who will use us and sell us out will, no doubt, bring an organization like the DSA to it’s ruin and irrelevancy, as it forces new growth into decline. The only safeguard, the only armor against such a process unfolding, is the kind of hegemony that a worker’s party can provide. The permanent establishment and association of a workers party, alongside the DSA, allows for traditions of political representation for the workers to emerge, and such traditions are the only method by which political stability and consistency can be forged. Absent real, proper, and vibrant political representation for organized workers, the consciousness and motive force propelling socialists forward will disintegrate into mere demagoguery and anarchy, as the only basis for any political socialism whatsoever is the advancement of the organized working class forward into politics. Thus, it is my sincere wish that North Star 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
