> The only actually existing political parties in the US are the Dems and the Reps. All third parties have no chance whatsoever of attaining the "immediate aims" or "enforcing momentary interests of the working class " at the federal or state levels , because third parties are not voted for by the working class, the 99%, our class. In terms of US historical specifics, third parties have digressively gotten smaller and smaller percentages of the vote for 100 years or more; Bull Moose , Socialist, CP, Progressive, Nader. There is a clear trend for third parties becoming obsolete, an objective political scientific phenomenon in the US political culture that Communists cannot ignore.
I've previously explained that since political parties are effectively excluded from meaningful participation in what passes for electoral politics in the USA, there are no political parties in the USA at all. (None that the democratic world would recognise anyhow.) If political parries are unable to field their choice of candidates, it follows they are unable to put forward a manifesto or political programme that electors can vote on. It then follows that political parties are quite redundant in the electoral system.
This election surely demonstrates this thesis powerfully. The Republican party is unable to field any of its preferred candidates for President, or even a candidate that its members can bring themselves to vote for. Instead it will be represented by a candidate that is anathema to everything it has ever stood for. It almost happened to the Democrats as well. These old parties may well continue to exist in name, but they are hollowed out shells.
There is very little point in creating a political party in the USA, since the early 20th century reforms which created the current system(s) of choosing candidates for office, it is no surprise that nobody bothers to new ones.
In places where the electoral system permits political parties to participate however, there have been a surge of new political parties. A thousand flowers are allowed to bloom, as the saying goes. But apart from a few stunted weeds, no flowers can grow in the poisoned concrete of the US electoral system.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas
PS: Wake up and smell the lack of flowers! ;-)