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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

William The Eloquent

Bill is really snarky and mean most of the time but he's quite eloquent here in describing exactly what most Americans now feel. His slides at the end of this piece ARE Americans. As Bill says (and I agree completely),

They don't hate capitalism. They hate what's been done to it.

Me too, Bill. Me too.



1 comment:

A. Noni Mouse said...

They don't hate capitalism. They hate what's been done to it.

Really? That's not what they say.

Here's what I see in those pictures from the Oakland Occupiers:

Page 1 of the link:

On the schedule board: "This is bring down capatalism (sic) day!"

"QPOC for the Death of Capitalism"

Page 2:

Workshops sign:
Thursday: Anti-capitalism twice. Marxism 101.
Friday: Anti-capitalism (squeezed in at 1)
Saturday: Anti-capitalism
Sunday: Anti-capitalism

"Capitalism can't be fixed. We need revolution. … Real communism!"

"A Socialist World is Possible"

From the brochure put out by the official "Oakland Commune" committee:

"Capitalism is not a static way of life but a dynamic process that consumes everything, transforming the living, breathing world into objects and profit. Now that the economy has consumed every aspect of life, the system is collapsing, leaving even some of its former beneficiaries out in the cold. The answer is not to revert to some earlier stage of capitalism, such as the economic boom of the post-war years; not only is that impossible, those earlier stages didn’t benefit the “99%” either."

Page 3:

"Capitalism is over!"

"Redistribute the Wealth"

"Capitalism is organized crime"

Page 4:

"We grow more daring and more aggressive in pursuing our own class interests. These do not lie in forming a new government, or becoming the new boss. Our interests lie in ending our own way of life—and therefore the society that is based on that way of life.

"We are the working class who want to abolish the working class. We are the community of people who want to tear the existing community apart. Our political program is to destroy politics. In order to do that, we have to push the subversive tendencies that exist today until we have completely remade society everywhere. This has at times been called "revolution.""
— the www.prole.info pamphlet

"They say trickle down. We say rise-up! International Socialist Org."