Forum Post: Involve the nation
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 18, 2011, 7:29 a.m. EST by kvb1
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It is time to get the entire nation involved in OWS. How can we do that without turning people off? Some of the actions that OWS has taken across the country is turning some people off. Some people would like to participate but cannot find the time, do not have the money to donate, or are afraid their jobs will be put in jeopardy.
One of the things we can do is to organize, promote, a buy local local day; add to that a buy small business day; finally promote a day of not spending ANY money any where. This may be the best demonstration of the 99%.
Local OWS need to select spokespersons to get this message out to the press. to get on OWS friendly media outlets, i.e. Countdown, Maddow, Shultz both TV and radio, etc.
A day of not spending any money will have a real impact on Wall St. with little impact on local businesses. It will allow everyone in the country to participate. It will show politicians who will ultimately hold the power in this country.
An Important Note on Oligarchy Written by Weise Geist, October 28, 2009 A student who wishes to remain anonymous once wrote a statement to the effect that "oligarchies are not inherently a negative conception." Let it be known that the student writing the statement was under the coercion of an editor sympathetic to oligarchy. Consider sociologist Robert Michels’ (a student of sociologist Max Weber) formulation of the Iron Law of Oligarchy: [T]he inherent tendency of all complex organizations, including radical or socialist political parties and labour unions, to develop a ruling clique of leaders with interests in the organization itself rather than in its official aims. These leaders … came to desire leadership and its status and rewards more than any commitment to goals. Inevitably, their influence was conservative, seeking to preserve and enhance the organization and not to endanger it by any radical action. Michels based his argument on the simple observation that day-to-day running of a complex organization by its mass membership was impossible. Therefore, professional full-time leadership and direction was required. In theory the leaders of the organization were subject to control by the mass membership, through delegate conferences and membership voting, but, in reality, the leaders were in the dominant position. They possessed the experience and expertise in running the organization, they came to control the means of communication within the organization and they monopolized the public status of representing the organization. It became difficult for the mass membership to provide any effective counterweight to this professional, entrenched, leadership. Michels also argued that these inherent organizational tendencies were strengthened by a mass psychology of leadership dependency, he felt that people had a basic psychological need to be led. Oligarchy is inherently undesirable, inherently hierarchical, inherently exclusive, inherently elitist, inherently classist, and inherently oppressive. Citigroup financial analysts Ajay Kapur, Niall Macleod, and Narendra Singh noted that the United States is a plutonomy (a very specific form of oligarchy). A plutonomy is defined as follows: Economic growth that is powered and consumed by the wealthiest upper class of society. Plutonomy refers to a society where the majority of the wealth is controlled by an ever-shrinking minority; as such, the economic growth of that society becomes dependent on the fortunes of that same wealthy minority. … This buzz word was initially coined by analysts at Citigroup in 2005 to describe the incredible growth of the U.S. economy during that period despite increasing interest rates, commodity prices and an inflated national debt. Citigroup analysts argued that as such an economy continues to grow in the face of contradictory elements, the more important the society's ultra rich become to maintaining such growth. The analysts also believed that in addition to the U.S., Canada, Great Britain and China are also becoming plutonomies. The great Karl Marx was right. Karl Marx urged for nationalization of the private Banque de France (the French Central Bank): “The liquidation of the Bank of France is decreed”; and so should we oppose the fascist reverse redistribution of wealth in our day. Adam Smith was also very critical of capitalism: “Though the manufacturer (i.e. the worker) has his wages advanced to him by his master, he, in reality, costs him (the capitalist) no expense, the value of those wages being generally restored, together with a profit, in the improved value of the subject upon which his labour is bestowed.”
Clandestine Banking with Economic Fascists From this we can see that Karl Marx was well read on Adam Smith. What needs to be done is to unite all people of the world (including libertarians and socialists) against a common enemy: globalist fascism in the form of an unelected world government and a clandestine global central bank.
The BBC news company did a shocking documentary on the financing of the Nazis during World War II, entitled, “Banking with Hitler.” One of the revelations of this documentary was that a secret central bank, the central bank for all central banks was created at the end of World War I to structure Treaty of Versailles war reparations from Germany to France. More to the current point, this secret central bank, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), and its members met secretly during World War II to coordinate loans for the Nazi regime. In a nutshell, central banks from all over the world coordinated to finance the Nazis. This secret institution exists still today and it is comprised of the heads of the central banks from all over the world. The main influences in the BIS are the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan. Its main office is in Switzerland and it has two other offices in Mexico City and Hong Kong. This anti-democratic entity is at the apex of the superstructure of finance capitalism. Finance capitalism is the nectar lifeblood of hegemonic imperialistic globalization and totalitarian clandestine government. The history of societal humanity is a system of clandestine hierarchical totalitarianism that must be stopped immediately. Generation after generation the state on behalf of the bourgeoisie via the power elite have incessantly waged economic, spiritual, intellectual, military, and psychological terrorist warfare on humanity. The parasitic states (which produce nothing) and the parasitic bourgeoisie (who profit from the labor of humanity) need the remaining 99.9% of us to survive, we do not need them. Love is a force much greater than all the nuclear weaponry, guns, tanks, counterintelligences, and militaries combined. Totalitarians can kill dissident after dissident, but they cannot destroy revolutionary ideas for:
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold The arch-enchanters wand! — itself a nothing! — But taking sorcery from the master-hand To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword —
“[P]hilosophers have only interpreted the world … the point is to change it.”