{"id":10806,"date":"2015-02-02T18:31:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T18:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=10806"},"modified":"2015-02-02T18:32:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T18:32:36","slug":"communist-party-usa-chairman-vows-cooperation-with-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=10806","title":{"rendered":"Communist Party USA Chairman Vows Cooperation With Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Communist Party USA Chairman Vows Cooperation With Democratic Party<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Daily Caller<\/p>\n

The chairman of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA has penned a 2,023-word manifesto making the critical point that American Communists are eager to work with the Democratic Party to advance the modern communist agenda and achieve communist goals.<\/p>\n

Communist Party chairman John Bachtell\u00a0published his essay last week at People\u2019s World<\/a>, a \u201cdaily news website of, for and by the 99% and the direct descendant of the Daily Worker.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[L]abor and other key social forces are not about to leave the Democratic Party anytime soon,\u201d Bachtell promised. \u201cThey still see Democrats as the most realistic electoral vehicle\u201d to fight against perceived class enemies.<\/p>\n

Bachtell, 58, is playing the long political game and he has a strategy, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, we are part of building the broadest anti-ultra right alliance possible, uniting the widest array of class (including a section of monopoly), social and democratic forces. This necessarily means working with the Democratic Party,\u201d the communist leader explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cSecond, our objective is not to build the Democratic Party. At this stage we are about building the broad people\u2019s movement led by labor that utilizes the vehicle of the Democratic Party to advance its agenda,\u201d Bachtell further expounded. \u201cWe are about building the movements around the issues roiling wide sections of people that can help shape election contours and debates.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c[W]e are for building movements in the electoral arena and see engagement in the electoral arena and democratic governance as a vital means to further build movements,\u201d Bachtell also said.<\/p>\n

To that end, he claimed, \u201cthousands of trade unionists have been elected\u201d at municipal and local levels of American government. Bachtell did not note a party affiliation of these elected leaders.<\/p>\n

The rest of Bachtell\u2019s declaration is mostly a somewhat modernized version of the same, garden-variety communist drivel communists have been spouting since roughly 1840.<\/p>\n

Communists and other leftists have experienced \u201cdisillusionment with the Democratic Party\u201d because of its \u201cdeep connections to Wall Street.\u201d He is still mad at President Bill Clinton for NAFTA and welfare reform.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s mad at everyone about an increased number of private schools.<\/p>\n

Republicans are an embodiment of caricatured evil for Bachtell.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the Republican Party is led by the most reactionary sections of Wall Street capital including the energy extractive sector and military industrial complex, it also consists of extreme right-wing elements including the Tea Party, white supremacists, social conservatives, right-wing evangelicals, climate deniers, anti-reproductive rights groups, etc.,\u201d the communist leader writes.<\/p>\n

Bachtell possesses a bachelor\u2019s degree from Antioch College, an obscure, private hothouse of leftism that went defunct in 2008 and was resurrected in 2011 as an unaccredited, private work college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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