Populism in America Editor’s note: Excerpted from the March 2005 report of The LRNA Steering Committee. America is heading toward a class confrontation. Every facet of society is beginning to polarize. Underlying it all is the qualitative change in the economy and the resulting antagonism between wealth and poverty. Polarization — the separation and destruction of the bonds that hold a process together — is a focal point for revolutionaries. Social transformation cannot take place without it. The polarization we are seeing today offers the opportunity for a historically new class movement for a cooperative world. For the process to reach fruition revolutionaries must provide the ideology, vision and scientific strategy needed to break the myriad of ideological and organizational bonds that tie the class to capitalism, freeing it to become a class for itself. This quantitative stage of the revolutionary process will be expressed in the class breaking its acceptance of capitalism and creating its own political party. Populism remains one of the main ideological weapons the rulers are using to prevent this from happening. Populism in American history The most important aspect of U.S. populism is its non-class outlook. This idea is based on the proposition from the 1776 Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal” and it has been reinforced by the specific history of the U.S.. This history has included political movements for reform in which sections of different classes have found themselves in temporary political alliances. full: _http://www.lrna.org/2-pt/v17ed3art3.html_ (http://www.lrna.org/2-pt/v17ed3art3.html)
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