the democratic party’s abandonment of the working class to globalization, austerity and pauperization, paved the way for trumpism. the democrats will not change, cannot change, and exist these days mostly to co-opt movements and then kill them. the only way that the working class is going to find a way out of being held hostage to the democrats is to begin learning how to organize as a class and act like a class that is independent of the capitalist political parties. 

larry holmes, workers world