Socialist Progressives

as a Bolshevik-Leninist, I don't believe it has much of a shot at a being a long term project unless it's led by the working class. That would be the tide that lifts all boats in alternative politics because a party that focuses on workers' concerns brings the attention to the economic life of the average American. And no, this wouldn't ignore the concerns of especially oppressed minorities either, but we are all oppressed economically.

But the main reason that it should be a workers party is that it would conceivably draw in enough people with the power to actually make a difference in both the inside and outside of the electoral system. Workers withholding labor power and thereby interfering with the profit chain of the owners is the only thing that they will really pay attention to. Add to this outside power, the power of the ballot box, and the owners would finally have a formidable opposition in the United States.