Forum Post: Having an Anarchist like Lisa Fithian involved in OWS is disturbing.
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 20, 2011, 6:32 p.m. EST by professor101
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from Brooklyn, NY
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It stains the movement with an aura of governmental destruction rather that dialogue on the common issues that Republicans & Democrats have - that justice be given to the reckless behavior of Wall Street bankers and that we reform the financial sector so that we may never have a systemic shock like this again. We simply don't need the A for Anarchy banners or the Hammer & Sickle around anything to do with Occupy since we should be focusing on working WITH govt.
I like how you pushed Communism in with Anarchy as if they are one in the same. The Communist Party is a legitimate political party in the United States.
That may be, but it's clear the controlling parties, both Dems and Repubs, hate their guts. Leftover McCarthyism from the Cold War.
It may be but unless you lived in the USSR you are not able to make an informed decision about Communism, it just sounds good because you may not need to really work very hard and the state will take care of you - at least that's your ideal.
People didn't work hard in the USSR? lol
How did they manage consistent growth and managed to bring it from the 3rd world to the 2nd world?
After they installed capitalism, the country went right back into the 3rd world. After 20 years of capitalism, they are right where they were in 1989.
Please try to read better. ".... at least that's YOUR ideal". You have no idea of the hardship and the fear of being reported by the secret police and the gulags. You simply need a lot more info to talk convincingly about it.
That's under the assumption that you refer to the governmental experiment in the USSR as true Communism, which it was not. That was totalitarianism. Communism, in its most basic form, has never actually been achieved by man as their ruling structure, except maybe in small communities such as the Kibbutz in Israel.
I was merely replying to your comment that people in communism do not work hard which is clearly not true.
Communism had more growth and economic output than capitalism
That has nothing to do with secret police and gulags.
This movement represents ALL Americans, not just the ones you approve of. Where would be the democracy in that?
Agreed.
Here is her wikipedia, I don't see any cause for alarm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Fithian
I also don't think this is the place to call someone to be ostracized from the entire movement. The guy forwarding movement emails to the FBI should be priority don't you think?
Also, rejecting anarchy and communism as the same thing, is ignorant. If you are going to reject them it will have to be for different reasons.
Focus on unity.