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By Nikos Mottas.

On November 3rd, the people of the United States of America will vote for the new President and vice president of the country. The two major contestants, current President Donald Trump and the Democratic nominee Joe Biden, are the two sides of the same coin. It is an undeniable truth that they both express the general strategic interests of the U.S. monopoly capital.

The differences in the political proposals between Trump and Biden reflect the sharpening of the competition between different sections of the U.S. capital. Indeed, a look at the top donors of the two presidential campaigns is indicative of the fierce rivalry that is taking place in the backstage between large monopoly groups.

Indeed, Trump and Biden, the Republicans and the Democrats, may have different political recipes and approaches in a series of issues. Trump, for example, stands as a defender of oil and gas industry, while Biden supports the so-called green development through the Renewable Energy Sources. They compete with each other on who is more capable on bringing the country out of the economic crisis and bring more development. But, in the end of the day, they hide that the economic development they pledge will benefit the big capital and the upper classes not the workers and the poor masses.

When it comes to the pandemic, Biden blames Trump for the disastrous management of the situation and Trump blames... China. But, actually, none of the two candidates speaks about the commercialized healthcare system which is based on the cost-profit formula. None of the two speaks about the exploitation of the pandemic by large private health business groups which rushed to take advantage from the absence of a free and universal healthcare system in order to boost their profits.

All those who detest Trump's far-right, hate mongering, nationalist-populist rhetoric must not fall victims of Biden's softly-spoken outwardly progressive words. Do not forget the example of Barack Obama, who campaigned and became President with populace-pleasing progressive slogans and seductive rhetoric but governed according to the interests of the capitalists, the big monopoly groups and the standards of imperialist military institutions.

Writing about the 1912 U.S Presidential Elections, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was pointing out the diminishing distinction between the Democrats and the Republicans. Their fight has not had any serious importance for the mass of the people. The people have been deceived and diverted from their vital interests by means of spectacular and meaningless duels between the two bourgeois parties, Lenin was stressing out in a text that could have been written today.

The millions of working class families in the U.S. must reject this single Property Party of the capitalists. Neither Trump, nor Biden will ever defend and promote the interests of the workers.

Being in its highest, imperialist stage, capitalism can offer nothing but misery, poverty, unemployment, deepening of social inequalities, wars and refugee crises. The real change for the people of the U.S. will not come from political messiahs or reformist social democrats, such as Bernie Sanders, who spread illusions about the supposed humanization of capitalism.

What is truly needed is a revolutionary Communist Party, based on marxist-leninist principles, which can lead the struggle of the country's working class towards the socialist transformation of society. So that the American people will become masters of their own destiny, owners of their own wealth, in a society without exploitation of man by man.

* Nikos Mottas is the Editor-in-Chief of In Defense of Communism.

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