Not a Socialist

This forum’s typically unsophisticated right-wingers will refer to Joe Biden as a socialist throughout the next four years. But, unlike most such letter writers, this venue’s political reactionaries regularly run afoul of an actual socialist — namely, myself.

Therefore, over the next four years, I will remind readers that Biden is no socialist and that only the most ill-informed amongst us refer to him as such.

We, socialists, know Joe Biden. We know him to be a fiercely pro-capitalist, warmongering, racist, neoliberal. Even Republican Senator Josh Hawley rightly noted that Biden’s cabinet consists of “corporatists and war enthusiasts.”

Biden will operate within the same neoliberal and principally reactionary realm that Obama and Clinton acted in. The faces in the Biden-Harris administration will be black, female, Latino, gay, etc. But its policies will keep power from workers, perpetuate the capitalist class’s ability to exploit the working class viciously, and fuel the capitalist system’s war machine.

History shows us that for the capitalist system to survive and expand (two words synonymous with capitalism), war is necessary. And, given that he has yet to meet a war he opposed, Biden will wholeheartedly accommodate that fact when necessary.

Throughout the Biden-Harris administration, war, police murders, white supremacy, and other social pathologies will continue. So, too, will their regime oppose universal healthcare, the bolstering of the Social Security and Medicare programs, and practically everything else that would benefit workers.

Despite the constant, conditioned, and doltish ramblings of the political Right, Biden and Harris are anything but socialists. Last June, Biden told a room full of billionaires and multi-millionaires that “nothing would change” if he secured the Oval Office.

To be sure, the only way that positive socioeconomic change can occur is if we workers see the capitalist system’s end.

Guy Marsh Lancaster