Monday 17 October 2011

OCCUPY EVERYTHING

Despite the recent "Occupy this, occupy that" movement ultimately being an exercise in feelgood liberalism, it's a good opportunity for people to learn about how the world is really run, and to understand how far the "democratic" powers that be will let things go. Also, they will find out the hard way whose side the police are really on. Undoubtedly there are millions of people in the third world thinking, "It's about fucking time". This is in no way a coherent movement with real identifiable goals, but it's a good starting point. Chairman Bob Avakian of the RCP gets it right when he describes the capitalist/imperialists as "fouler, more monstrous criminals than mythology has ever invented or jails ever held". They will let nothing get in the way of their profits, and this little exercise of letting some people vent about the system is just so they can show us all how democratic they are. If they don't let millions dying of malnutrition, preventable diseases, and war get in the way of money, then why would they listen to anyone else? There is only one way that they will be brought down, and it won't be by singing songs and holding hands.