{"id":253208,"date":"2024-07-24T10:30:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=253208"},"modified":"2024-07-24T21:29:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T20:29:02","slug":"so-biden-is-stepping-down","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/so-biden-is-stepping-down\/","title":{"rendered":"So Biden is stepping down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Big deal\u2019, socialists say, even if whoever replaces him has a better chance of defeating Trump in the carnivalesque event called an election.<\/p>\n<p>Will its result make any difference? Of course not, since both Democrats and Republicans are parties of the status quo \u2013 capitalism, a system in which 712 million people throughout the world suffer from extreme poverty, and in the US the three wealthiest people have a higher net worth than the bottom half of society.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of supporting parties whose purpose is to perpetuate capitalism, workers in the US and elsewhere need to organise to establish a truly democratic society of free access to all goods and services, based on production for need not profit &#8211; socialism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-253208","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/253208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}