"Democrats move to the center." Means what? [View All]

I'm going to take a soft-core Marxist view. Marx said somewhere that in a capitalist country, the government is the executive committee of the capitalist class, but serious Marxists are well aware that that is an oversimplification. To the extent that the capitalist class rules, it does so by way of proxies, who are politicians. A (somewhat!) democratic constitution favors capitalism by creating (limited) competition for the job of proxy, and creating plenty of channels through which large-scale money can assure that the government acts, if not as its executive committee, then as a reliable proxy.

To say that the Democratic Party ought to move to the center is to say that the Party ought not attempt to oppose the rule of the multimillionaire class nor advocate for other classes or groups, but make a pitch to replace the Republicans as proxies of the ruling class, on the grounds that the Repubs are too stupid or (I think) too doctrinaire and ideological actually to advance the practical interests of the ruling class.

Pretty much, that's what Carter and Clinton did. I guess we could talk about whether it worked or not, and why.

ANYWAY here's another question. Does the liberal wing of the Democratic Party ever actually oppose the rule of the multimillionaire class? Is that what is going on at all?

More to come if anybody is interested.