Occupy Wall Street! Occupy Boston! Occupy Worcester! Occupy everywhere! That is the battle cry of the useful idiots who have decided to camp outside in city parks to protest. You dare to ask what they are protesting against? Shame on you for asking! Young idealistic naive college students lament the unfairness of low wages and student loan debt while older people decry the Bush Administration and pine for more government regulations. Finally, one month into this debacle, a common theme is starting to emerge as organized labor and radical leftist groups start to take hold of the movement. Basically they want the wealth of those in the private sector taken away by the government and redistributed to those who need it more.
If that sounds familiar to you it should. Marx and Engel were saying the same thing when they published the Communist Manefesto in 1848. You don't believe me? Well here is a copy of the n points as written in that book:
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5.Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State
capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a
common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labour
in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.
Can there really be any doubt what this movement is all about. I thought it was especially interesting to read #2 only to find we already have that type of tax system. We even call it
by the same name! Substitute healthcare in #10 and you have Obamacare. Some of these ideas
like abolishing child labor and providing free public education are good but the underlying
idea is flawed. By giving the government all of the power you give up all liberty. That is
against our American tenants. Accuse any of the protesters of being Communist and they go
ballistic in their denials but isn't that what they are? I think the evidence is clear.
