In other countries and at other times in history, such extremes of wealth and poverty have been impetus enough for the formation of various forms of people's or workers' parties. Today, there is an added impetus. The creation of a new class has added something new to the ongoing struggle over the distribution of society's wealth and has begun its process of qualitative transformation. This moment calls for and makes possible a political organization of the struggle for immediate needs. All things physical and social develop in stages.
Polarization is a necessary and unavoidable stage of any process of transformation.
Economic and social polarization have laid the basis for the beginning of political polarization. People feel they have been wronged. Mad, surprised, confused, and too often misdirected, they are setting out to right those wrongs. As an organization of the immediate struggle that introduces the concept of class into the debate about what to do about the situation, the Labor Party's formation begins the political polarization. The Labor Party adopted a program of struggle aimed at class identity and class unity.