Posted on 06/15/2015 6:17:30 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
The objective was to infect the national political conversation with Marxist tropes and ideology, which is unfortunately a new reality in America.
Though many have declared the Occupy Wall Street movement a failure, it won a major propaganda victory when it forced the phony political issue of “income inequality” into the national political debate, according to one of its leaders in a new article.
The article, titled The Triumph of Occupy Wall Street, appears at the Atlantic, the home of radical leftists, market participants in the racial grievance industry, and mushy moderates.
It was written by radical left-winger Michael Levitin, a co-founder of The Occupied Wall Street Journal, an OWS “affinity group.” (Its website had not been updated in 1,000 days at time of writing.) The article is a mixture of truth and bald-faced lies that slavishly defends a philosophy of failure and a movement that is based on Marxist lies, as David Horowitz and John Perazzo demonstrated in their pamphlet Occupy Wall Street: The Communist Movement Reborn. Despite the various problems with Levitin’s article, he points to an unfortunate side-effect of the short-lived movement: the left has become more bold in its open promotion of communist themes and ideology and is pushing them into mainstream politics like never before.
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I think the author makes an excellent point. The country is clearly more open to Marxist ideas and Socialist economic policies than at any time in our history. This has occurred very rapidly after the OWS movement. I fear that tide may be irreversible.
I often wonder what they were HOPING FOR with he “Occupy [your town here]” movement..
it was silly and ridiculous, but they had an original plan for it.
They must have freaked when they saw the morons they recruited crapping on police cars, with all the money they were spending
Who paid for all those food tents and commercial catering services?
IMO the original plan was to repeat the “Bonus Army” of 1932. Eventually all of the camps would march to Washington and re-establish themselves there. After a week or two of crapping on the National Mall the Feds would use force to try and push them out, and the resulting melee would serve as the rallying point for a new Socialist movement.
The country began moving Left very quickly after the Bonus Army was dispatched from D.C. by the military.
Oh it is certainly reversible if for no other reason than that it always fails and must be discarded. The question is how far will it progress and how much pain must we suffer before the reverse occurs. Marxist "ideas" are nothing more than a polemic critique against capitalism and "socialist policies" always boil down to redistributionism via a coercive government composed of pampered elitists and have always been an abject failure which only lasts until a starving populace throws it off. How long that takes depends on how successful and large the capitalist foundation was which the socialists decided to erect their worker's paradise upon. Once that foundation is played out and finally destroyed the "socialist policies" are soon jettisoned to be replaced with something that can actually put food on the table.
“Who daid...” George Soros.
Sorry, paid.
and by ‘open’ you mean the media will propagate it with glowing praise repeatedly for years.
meanwhile, the rest of the country is screaming bs.
when more then 50% of your life is spent working to support the mooching class, your life is no longer yours.
vehemently reject marxist and socialism bs at every turn
>>The country is clearly more open to Marxist ideas and Socialist economic policies than at any time in our history.
Not true. Compare with the 1930s, or the 1890s.
To my perspective, the most striking aspect was as a demonstration of the fruits of a failed educational system: "Occupy Wall Street".
By “irreversible” I guess what I meant was, not in my lifetime.
Looking at the prior examples (USSR, Cuba, etc.) Communism appears to have a half-life of 60-70 years.
Public crapping, drug abuse and sex abuse are all that come to mind for me.
And yet I had a little combat with the Communist Max Keiser through a third party about the nature of OWS. He was all for them. What a surprise.
Cuba is still communist. So is China. I don't see that changing any time soon.
The point was to open the window a bit wider. Eventually it gets opened to the point that literally anything can fly through it.
OF course, what do expect from puppets paid by the hour to protast by former NAZI Georgie Soros?
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