We are an independent volunteer organization that hosts courses and educational events on political and economic topics from a majoritarian, class-reductionist perspective.
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The Problem
Working people in the United States are currently politically homeless, and the vast majority are being systematically plundered by a system that doesn’t represent them. Many organizations which call themselves “left” are dominated by educated professionals and the interests and preoccupations of professionals and managers. The middle-class character of the contemporary left has created an alienating subculture. It suffers from all the pathology and dysfunction of campus activism. The result is a kind of aesthetically radical liberalism masquerading as class politics, the replacement of class politics with identity politics, nothing to offer the broad majority of working people, and consequently a series of betrayals and failures.
The political struggle for material interests of working people is about economic classes and political power. It’s not a lifestyle, subculture, church, social club, or vehicle for career advancement. It’s about labor and wages, capital and profits, ownership and control, production and distribution, rentiers and rents.
Our Shared Principles
1. Majoritarian class politics, not minoritarian identity politics.
Neoliberalism separates everyone into groups according to identity categories like race, gender, religion, ethnicity, etc. Divided up like this, the vast majority of the population which must work for a living can only be ruled and exploited, not advance common interests all working people share. Establishment politics embraces this division. It creates the impression that even common interests are actually the narrow interests of groups fighting for “their” slice of a shrinking pie. Consequently, no one is looking out for the interests of the majority, and only the ultra-wealthy and powerful are really watching out for themselves. The result is isolation, paralysis, and oligarchy.
True class politics transcends all identity-based divisions and unites us on the basis of what we do, not what we “are”. What the working class does is work, because it must labor to survive. Only by organizing around shared class interests can we make gains in real, material terms of wealth and political power.
2. Material politics, not symbolism.
Liberalism and conservatism emphasize the goodwill of wealthy benefactors and attempt to influence them to “create” jobs and “drive” the economy. Both wings prefer charity because it leaves all wealth and power in the hands of the wealthy and powerful. Class politics is when classes advocate their interests for themselves, which the class of ultra-wealthy and powerful individuals do all the time. Class politics in the interests of the working class requires that it opposes its opponents in the political struggle for power and living-standards. Anything less is just symbolism and impotent, moral outrage.
It is essential to strategically select political priorities according to their potential to alter the balance of political-economic power of classes: to empower ordinary working people and disempower their political opponents who exploit them economically and dominate them politically. This means focusing on popular, universal social programs, organizing labor, and electing principled politicians committed only to the interests of the vast majority of working people. And it means rejecting the patronage networks of both political parties in the duopoly system, the donor class of oligarchs, unscrupulous careerism, and superficially radical aesthetics or posturing.
3. Mass politics, not subculture.
Those who consider themselves “leftists” must confront the skewed class composition of the contemporary “left”. Leftists often claim to champion the working class, yet the membership of leftist organizations is overwhelmingly drawn from the ranks of the professional-managerial class, self-employed middle class, their aspirants, and, in particular, downwardly mobile, college-educated millennials. This is why there is a pervasive middle class “activist” culture that alienates working class people unfamiliar with the latest fads and taboos from elite universities, liberal arts colleges, and the nonprofit complex.
If the goal is to alter the balance of power in favor of the interests of ordinary working people, only majoritarian class politics will do. Stop emulating liberal academia and corporate HR departments which alienate ordinary working people. Reject the practices managers might use to control workers: callouts, cancellation, and censorship. Stop pretending that the adoption of tokenism and diversity quotas is high on the list of working people’s demands.
4. A party of, by, and for ordinary working people.
If self-designating leftists can’t stop tailing the Democratic party, then there’s little hope for a better life for ordinary working people. The hope to change the politics of that party is the hold it and its donor class has on them. History has shown that the inability of left organizations to enforce discipline leads to members’ being exploited to elect unprincipled candidates that ditch their commitments as soon as they are in office.
Political engagement must be oriented towards the creation of an independent workers’ party in which politicians serve the majority of working people instead of a donor class of oligarchs. It must take an antagonistic stance towards the Democrats and Republicans. Direct control must be exercised over elected politicians’ staffing decisions and votes.
Reforming the electoral system is necessary to shed our reliance on the Democratic Party and put a true workers’ party in their place. It makes no sense to hunt for so-called outsiders to endorse. And a third party has no chance of success under the first-past-the-post electoral system used in the United States.
Our Purpose
In order to be capable of coherent and effective politics, theoretical clarity is necessary. In service of this goal, we provide members with political education in study groups, speaker events, and producing media to sharpen political and economic acumen. We encourage principled debate and discussion among our members so that they can develop and defend an incisive materialist perspective. By doing this, we also hope to normalize open, principled debate, and a realistic, majoritarian perspective within the broader left.
This statement of principles was adopted on 8.3.2026.
If you find yourself in substantial agreement with us, please consider joining Class Unity.