Occupy Admits Its Real Goal: Communism

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 20 August 2012 | Editorial

[IBD editorial writer]

The Left: An Occupy organizer admitted over the weekend that the goal of his protest group was to "overthrow the capitalist system and build communism." So the cat's out of the bag again on this bunch. Where is the outrage?

The true agenda of the Occupy movement has been revealed — it's a totalitarian one. Billing itself as a spontaneous people's revolution and embraced by the media and Democrat political establishment, Occupy is really a destructive band of thugs whose goal is the violent demise of democracy.

Speaking at a "People's Assembly" in Washington, former Amalgamated Transit Union local 689 president Mike Golash told Occupy members his goal was to "make revolution in the United States, overthrow the capitalist system and build communism."

The Occupy organizer added that he was "trying to learn something from the examples of the Soviet Union, Red China and Castro's Cuba. ... What can we learn from them so we can build a more successful movement to transform capitalist society?" he asked.

This attachment to the miserable failure of communism — an ideology that left 100 million people dead in the 20th century and met its demise as an idea after millions rose up in 1989-90 to repudiate it — is insane.

[ripley]

How disgusting, stupid, ignorant, idiotic and insane.

IMHO

[yldstrk]

I despise and loathe communism it is of the devil

[musicman]

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[Disambiguator]

I’m glad I was sitting down when I read that headline. What a stunning revelation!

/s

[Dan Zachary]

They have been advertising this all along. This is just a few pictures I found in a search.

[GOPJ]

Billing itself as a spontaneous people's revolution and embraced by the media and Democrat political establishment, Occupy is really a destructive band of thugs whose goal is the violent demise of democracy.

I suspect ACORN and the Southern Poverty Law Center are also communist front organizations.

[Seeing More Clearly Now]

I suspect ACORN and the Southern Poverty Law Center are also communist front organizations.

“Suspect” is a cautious way to put it. All evidence points to this conclusion. Nothing at all suggests anything to the contrary.

[Cronos]

there's a wonderful short story by Richmal Crompton about a group of young men in the 1920s (all are about 17-19) who get "inspired" by the idea of communism where they can ask their fathers for their "fair share"

however, unbeknownst to them, their little brothers are listening and also get "inspired".

So, on the day they ask their fathers, they discover that their bicycles, cameras, money etc. are missing. They then see their little brothers coming along, happy with their "shared goods" and spank them :)

Well, in the end they cancel the plan with their fathers and say "it's ok when you want to get your share of other people's goods, it's when other people want to get their share of YOUR goods, that's the catch" :)

[Skooz]

bump

[Little Ray]

My experience with economists is that a significant portion of them are actually barking mad. Really. Complete moonbats.

They really believe that “We owe it to ourselves” garbage about the deficit and think we should take money away from the rich and give it to the “poor” because the poor will spend it right away, thus boosting our economy.

Really. They actually think that way.

[Little Ray]

My experience with economists is that a significant portion of them are actually barking mad. Really. Complete moonbats.

They really believe that “We owe it to ourselves” garbage about the debt and think we should take money away from the rich and give it to the “poor” because the poor will spend it right away, thus boosting our economy.

Really. They actually think that way.