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Old 05-01-2012, 11:18 AM   #22
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So I want to make sure I've got this stuff straight. Firstly, I don't go to any of the protests. I'm actually quite ignorant as to what goes on in Occupy.

You see... I tell my friends that the fastest way to silence Occupy is to increase taxes on the rich, socialize medicine, education, and perhaps even bring in new laws about student loans that lessens the burden on those in debt. If we were to do this, Occupy would act as if they accomplished the revolution. Sure... things in America would change for almost everyone while perhaps the world remains unchanged.

And it leaves me thinking about what it means to live in a communist or anarchist society with the old prejudices and the racial/gender/orientation/religious privileges in place. So what I'm thinking is what does it mean when the economic and worker control problems are solved but nothing else is? What kind of world would that be?

Frankly, I don't think Saya or Versus or really anyone who suffers at the machinations of white male privilege wants Occupy to go away. It is a powder keg of real change if one can start getting those who enjoy privileges to recognize where they come from in life. It has to do it correctly.

I remember when I read about Orwell's account of Anarchist Catalonia. An anarchist society, people! And there were moments and scenes where something seemed oddly sexist and there were some times where Orwell was treated differently in Spain because he was from somewhere else.

I think the point is; there are systems that people want. Occupy is pretty red as far as wanting to be socialist and one can commend Occupy for that. But then what of the culture?

Am I on to this, guys? Do I get it or am I still missing the mark?
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