If, if, if...

If, if, if… this "iffy" article was published in The Nation Magazine. The name of the writer is unimportant because this pretty much reflects universally held views (excuses) by those supporting Barack Obama and the "good" Democrats as opposed to the "bad" Democrats without naming the "good" Democrats because from day-to-day their names change depending on who gets the biggest corporate payoffs from the Wall Street crowd. So far, organized labor has never been able to match the corporate payoffs so working people have been victimized every step of the way over the last two years... check it out:

If we on the left want Obama and the Democrats to strongly back a progressive agenda, we have to make them do it. If there had been a strong progressive movement such as existed in the 1930s demanding universal healthcare, pro-union policies, increases in the minimum wage, a crash program to create a green infrastructure for energy and transportation and, yes, a progressive tax policy, we wouldn't need to be having this discussion today. Instead of complaining about Obama we ought to be working our tails off to build a real movement that will ultimately force him and a recalcitrant Congress to do the right thing.

The problem with all of these “if’s” is that the writer never tells us how these powerful movements of the 1930’s ever came to be built and who organized these movements.The writer should have went on with his “if’s” to say: If we had a large and strong People's Front to stand up to Wall Street we would have the kind of movement required to push Obama, the Democrats and even many Republicans to do the right things... but, liberals, progressives, the left--- and most importantly, the working class which is mainly liberal with many progressives and a growing left-wing--- is completely in disarray and unorganized; inundated in mass confusion because working class ideas are not getting out there. Anger in this country is definitely growing by the day.

Even though we are told we are all socialists now, Marxist ideas and analysis are not entering the proverbial "public square.

We hear a lot of talk about inequality; yet, the very Marxist point of view that is capable of challenging the very capitalist system which creates this inequality is not being heard even though we are told that Obama is some kind of Marxist--- more lies and confusion added to the pot because Marxists are not being provided a forum to bring forward our views. 

Of course, if we had a large, strong and vibrant Communist Party USA Marxist leaflets, newspapers, pamphlets and books would be circulated and distributed widely in working class communities and places of employment, schools, community centers, churches and at the local supermarket--- if, if, if.  

If we had a large, strong Communist Party USA capable of initiating and helping to organize a broad People's Front we could win the ideological war against Wall Street just as this war was being won in the 1930's. 

If, the Communist Party USA was doing its job of educating the working class as to the real and true nature of capitalism and the consequences of its highest and most barbaric and cannibalistic stage of Wall Street's imperialism we would be winning the struggles for real change. Real change means real reforms improving the lives of working people instead of saddling us with having to pay to solve the problems created by Wall Street's greedy, money-grubbing, filthy rich coupon clippers through austerity measures while bankers are making huge profits from the deficit.

After all, the Nation's debt is the bankers' profit. So, deficits really do matter because if the rich are going to get tax-breaks in one way or another workers are going to have to pay for these deficits made huge by wars and militarism. Oh, yes; no one is asking the all important question of working people... 

If we had a strong and vibrant Communist Party USA the question would be asked of every working class family:

How is Obama's war economy working for you? 

If we had a Communist Party USA that was on-the-ball it would be explained to working people how these imperialist wars are making us all poor while Wall Street coupon clippers get rich.

If we had a strong Communist Party USA it would have been thoroughly and completely explained why Barack Obama is no friend of the people because he works for Wall Street's interests which can never be one and the same with the interests of the working class.

This well-heeled middle-class writer from The Nation is, quite frankly, wrong in stating the "left" wants a progressive agenda advanced in this country because most all liberals, progressives and the left want a progressive agenda advanced in this country. The writer is probably wrong because he is without any connections to the working class--- the class creating all wealth. But, if there was a strong Communist Party USA we would all know who creates all the wealth and where all of this wealth goes and why because Marxism explains the labor is the Father of all wealth and Nature is the Mother and how capitalists get rich exploiting labor while raping Mother Nature. Members of the Communist Party USA join Clubs--- working class "think tanks" and "action centers." These Communist Party Clubs are what make the Communist Party USA strong and when these Clubs don't exist because a leadership of working class betrayal is at the helm pushing Obama down the throats of working people like this well-heeled, muddle-headed, middle-class intellectual with all of his "ifs" but not honestly explaining why the "ifs" exist, then the Club structure of the Communist Party USA falls apart and the working class is weakened without any ability to fight-back against Wall Street's thoroughly reactionary agenda by bringing forward this progressive alternative The Nation writer tells us is needed which all of us already knew before he wrote this worthless piece intended only to support Barack Obama's and the Democrats' Wall Street agenda... which ultimately supports the Republicans.   

Marxist ideology remains the only challenge to capitalist ideology and economics.

Marxism is the politics and economics of livelihood.