There is a lot of discussion regarding the rich stealing from the poor. I agree. There is little articulation of how this happens other than suppressed wages and shady tax cuts.

Has anyone inspected the monetary policy (since August 1971) and how that correlates to the wealthy getting more wealthy and the poor becoming poorer? Monetary policy is working under the surface and is contributing, or forcing, those with less to have even less.

The house is tilted, not just the board game.

Class struggle is fought on a vertical scale, it is we down here (the working class) against the upper classes and their government/state apparatus.

Someone said that Class unions is not only a tool for class struggle but also the best umbrella for identity politics*. Someone said General strike is the most intersectional action**. In this spirit, the following article has been written...

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/we-need-a-united-class-not-a-united-left/

*Identity politics is politics based on a particular identity, such as ethnicity, race, nationality, religion, denomination, gender, sexual orientation, social background, caste, and social class. (Wikipedia)

**Intersectionality is a sociological analytical framework for understanding how groups' and individuals' social and political identities result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege. Examples of these factors include gender, caste, sex, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, disability, height, age, and weight. (Wikipedia)

Philip from my caucus, Reform & Revolution, wrote a short comment on the new situation for DSA and the left after the Trump assassination attempt, see 

https://reformandrevolution.org/2024/07/14/a-strengthened-trump-must-be-fought-with-working-class-movements-and-independent-politics/

There's a Spanish translation of the comment on the Jacobin Latin America page, https://jacobinlat.com/2024/07/15/un-trump-fortalecido-debe-ser-combatido-con-politicas-independientes/

Some of the main takeaways: 

• The assassination attempt “has significantly strengthened [Trump's] political position.” And: “Along with Biden’s abysmal debate performance this dramatically increases the danger of a second Trump term with all the horrible implications entailed.”
• “[D]esperate terroristic methods do not serve the interests of the working class or the oppressed. [...] The only viable way to fight Trump – and the far-right populism he expresses – is building a massive, democratically organized, multi-racial working-class movement” and a working-class party. 
• “The capitalist establishment and their mass media is in overdrive with their usual calls to put 'politics' aside for the sake of 'national unity'.” While such appeals “will likely receive a popular echo from ordinary people for a time, the Left, especially Left leaders, must stand against this conservative propaganda. While opposing acts of violence like yesterday’s shooting, we must entirely reject calls to 'unite' with far-right Republicans and Wall Street Democrats. Let us not forget that the same establishment politicians who are denouncing political violence today are at the same time providing billions of dollars of US military aid to the Israeli state for its wanton slaughter of tens of thousands of children and civilians in Gaza.”

I’m interested to see if there are any particularly powerful quotes or questions that you could add to a sticker to make conservatives/a political people consider different ideas. I know it’s ultimately ridiculous to think that a sticker would change anyone’s beliefs, but sometimes I just wanna throw a wrench in and see if anything happens. For example: “trump wants to terminate the constitution”

Jamaal Bowman ousted. Joe Biden trounced in a debate. How does the future of socialist candidates in America look? Should Biden step down? And if he does, who would you like to replace him?