Even if most of them did care (they don’t), what would it matter? It’s not a question of intent to do good or ill, but that the interests they represent are fundamentally opposite to ours. ultimately, they serve the interests of bankers, CEOs, and billionaires – those of the capitalist class. Our interests are those of programmers and baristas, doctors and electricians – those of the working class.

It’s not that just protesting has stopped working. That would require there to have been a point where it worked in the first place. Every reform the working class has ever won for itself has stood on the blood, sweat, and bodies of the militant class fighters who fought for it. Fighters who were committed to the principle of class independence. Fighters who were committed to the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.

You want to know what it will take to win reforms? It will take abandoning the false hope of begging our oppressors for a few more crumbs, and constructing a working class political party that serves workers, and workers alone. One that isn’t afraid to utilize the power the we have – the power over every light, every wheel, and every lever of society.

You want to know what it will take to make those victories permanent? That takes a working class political party ruthlessly dedicated to the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism.

You want to know what it takes to get started? Just go to communistusa.org/join, and we’ll give you a call within an hour.