The Company You Keep
by Robert P. Heslin, for ElectionDebates.com
They decry the tyranny of the rich and of big business. They condemn the wage slavery of the middle class. They declare themselves champions of the working poor, striking a blow for freedom against their wealthy oppressors.
The irony that they benefit from the products and riches produced by the corporations they despise has been widely noted.
Less widely noted are the identities of those who sympathize with and support Occupy Wall Street. It is a ghastly list; virtually every enemy of freedom, large or small, every tyrannical state or group, every ruler who ever crushed out the life or livelihood of an opponent, peaceful or otherwise, is on it. So too are more than a few crackpots. Most sensible people would not want them on their side.
The names on this list include groups and ideologies which in the last century were responsible for more mass enslavement, misery, and death than any others in all of human history. What Winston Churchill said of democracy in the political world is equally true of capitalism in the economic – it's the worst system out there – except for all the others.
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Communist Party USA "We stand with the courageous young people who have sparked this movement and join with the occupiers who are putting themselves on the line to transform our nation and achieve a secure and sustainable future." The CPUSA has been soliciting donations in the US for awhile now. See this article for a snapshot of their recent activities.
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"TAKE PART and JOIN IN when these protests hit your neck of the woods. Produce some flyers EXPLAINING the "JEW BANKER" influence... GET OUT THERE and SPREAD the WORD! " |
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"They [the US government] may crack down on this movement but cannot uproot it. Ultimately, it will grow so that it will bring down the capitalist system and the west." |
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"People are frustrated and the protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works." |
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"It is impossible for the Western countries to get rid of the evil cycle of crisis as long as the capitalist market economy is left as it is." |
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“If you like the dollar bill with the enemy’s face on it, if that means more to you than to carve out a future for your children, then you can die when the dollar dies.” |
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The fresh breeze of Occupy Wall Street that is spreading around the world needs to become a sustained wind blowing away complacency, acquiescence, and conventional thinking, clearing ground for even broader, more determined resistance as well as the emergence of a new, growing movement for revolution that can sweep away the horrors of imperialism and set to work creating a whole new world. |
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"...the Zionist dominated media is busy manipulating our people to see the Occupy Wall Street protestors as the enemy rather than the Zionist Bankster Criminals who are stealing trillions of dollars from the American people." |
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“What is the core of that protest, and why is it increasing in terms of the people it’s attracting — the core is the bargain has been breeched with the American people.” |
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“This movement of popular outrage is expanding to 10 cities and the repression is horrible. I don't know how many are in prison now." |
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"A revolution and a comprehensive movement against corruption in the U.S. is in the making. The last phase will be the collapse of the Western capitalist system." |
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"I bet Huey Newton is smiling on us right now," said a young man who took the microphone... "I believe us here today is the same reason this country got founded." -- reported by Scott Johnson, Oakland Tribune
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The Socialist Party USA supports the mobilizations to occupy Wall St. in New York and various cities across the US and encourages our locals to take part in these actions. |
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Throughout the world, from Egypt to Greece, from China to Madison, Wisconsin, working class people are starting to rise up. The IWW welcomes this. We see the occupation of Wall Street as another step - no matter how large or small - in this process. |
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"We, the Islamic Leadership Council of Metropolitan New York and Muslim New Yorkers stand in solidarity with the protesters of Occupy Wall Street..." |
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"God bless them for their spontaneity. It's independent ... it's young, it's spontaneous, and it's focused. And it's going to be effective." |
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"The Arab Spring has definitely inspired the burst of protests in the United States and Europe." |
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"The arrests across the country are apparently increasing popularity of the movement." |
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Occupy more, find each other, build larger and larger networks and keep discovering new ways to experiment with social life, consensus, and democracy. |
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The first step on the road to the socialist future is a revolution to uproot global capitalism and establish the direct rule of the working class and the oppressed. |