On the eve of the Iowa caucuses Corporate money, media manipulation and the US elections

The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are both political instruments of the American financial aristocracy. They are not identical, because they employ different appeals, have different histories, and to some extent speak for different factions of the corporate-financial elite, but the two big business parties have the same basic social function: maintaining the domination of American society by the corporate-financial elite and upholding the worldwide interests of American imperialism.

Both parties would be considered right-wing in any other advanced capitalist country—the Republican Party semi-fascist or extreme right, the Democrats conservative or center-right