Dear Socialist majority 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.
When we consider our fellow citizens, and the nature of our democracy, we often convince ourselves that anything is possible, given the right people are in the right positions in power. Or that corruption needs to be rooted out, because those individuals have the wrong ideas, priorities, or are being bribed and bought off such that they do. But this problem, while real, isn’t the source of problems in our society. Putting all of that aside for a moment, when anyone, regardless of what they believe, are taught, or have material interest in, is faced with a problem in a given situation, they generally do everything they can to address it with whatever resources are at their disposal. They give it their best shot, and despite this, we have wildly differing perspectives on possibilities and aims, and so see their ‘best shot’ as being lazy, unresourceful, dishonest, etc. But that’s not their experience, or the experience of the persons around them. So then, though it may seem like the problem is the person in the specific position, their skills, their abilities, their qualifications, their ideas and priorities, etc, actually it isn’t. The problem is the reality of the division of labor, and the affect it has on consciousness. Society is divided based on certain similarities of capacities, prior experiences and expertise, etc. But the perspective of the whole, which is greater than the sum of it’s parts, gets lost. The only universal we currently experience is that of incompleteness. So Politics, which is the realm of the universal, must be completed. This means that a political party must be built, and utilized, to affect change. Given the above, parties, being representational factions, come in two main types. There are those which are based on representing the division of labor, thus grasping the root of the problem, and those which do not. Rather, these other, bourgeois (merely urban) parties, represent history, a particular section in space (land, region) and time (generation); they have particular experiences, skills, interests, qualities and ideas. Building the one type of party, builds upon (not heals) the outlined problems we face in society, while building the other creates the only possible solution to address it.
Thus, it is my sincere wish that Socialist Majority 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
