Forum Post: OWS not schooled enough in socialism: And lay off the banksters - it's not about them
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 1, 2011, 5:52 a.m. EST by EndTheFedNow
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Email from a self appointed (Marxist) "leader" in OWS:
Mark, I agree with you completely. In fact just last night I was reading the section in Grieder's book on the Fed where he contrasts the class base and resulting politics of 19th vs. 20th century populists (progressive and reactionary respectively). (See bottom of page 265 for his punchline on this.) That's why I spoke of both left and right wing populists today. The kids today at OWS who are proworker, antiracist, antisexist, anti-imperialist, but who think the solution is ending the Fed, or restoring Glass-Steagall, or breaking up the big banks, or moving our money to credit unions -- isn't left populist a fair term for them? And it's meant not in an elitist or dismissive way, but as a sign of their lack of exposure to basic socialist ideas -- for which we all, of course, share some responsibility.
Removing the money from politics does nothing to change the current status quo. Poverty will continue, and a living wage for workers will continue to be nothing more than a pipe dream. If you want equity, then you have to cultivate a society based on something other than capitalism and that is not the business of OWS.