By the way the communists are indeed active in the protests - they were handing out Socialist Worker newspaper. Also the more hard line Communist Party of Great Britain was there and active too.
The thing is, the action from the US and UK governments represents national socialist communal policies dressed up as liberal democracy.
What aggravates the regular people over here to protest is that the banksters mismanaged the economy, while the government failed in regulation and oversight. Now the bail-out solution is going to line the pockets of the fraudsters who caused this and prop up rotten financial institutions, without really helping the people who are losing their jobs, savings, retirement funds, houses worth less, etc.
ROFL... I was just asking about that and hadn’t seen your post! I figured they would be there - they ALWAYS are! You’d think they’d be happy with the way things are progressing in the world regarding Communism — especially with what Obama is doing in the US... Why are they still protesting? LOL
I agree with everything you’ve said. I think the Socialists/Communists taint these protests, and people who really “get it” are getting their complaints lost in the propaganda. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Commies did this type of thing on purpose to confuse the public into thinking that the protesters are the “bad guys”, when the majority of people — like you said — are there because what our governments are doing is anathema to liberty, and freedom, and prosperity!
My husband was laid off last week, so I completely understand your frustration, and that of our friends in Britain! The whole civilized “Western” world is suffering because of these COMMUNIST efforts to take over our economy, and our countries...
I may sound like I am completely biased against these protesters, but I’m really not (just the Communists among them! LOL). The anarchists mean well — they just feel the weight of the “state” a little more heavily than the rest of society I think. I don’t think they view human nature as a factor in their ideology though. Anarchism (like socialism incidentally) SOUNDS really good, until you think through the consequences of actually running a society in that way...