10-15-2011, 04:32 PM
(10-15-2011, 04:10 PM)kandrathe Wrote: I do believe however that the bulk of the protesters are anti-capitalist, and pro-marxism. I don't believe the bulk of them advocate violence, but are willing to break the law as a form of civil disobedience.
No doubt there is a wide mix of opinions. I would suspect that a fairly small minority are any stripe of Marxist. Anti-Capitalist... well, if by that, you mean against the Capitalist class (that is to say, Wall Street), then yeah, sure. That's the name of the movement. If you mean against any form of market economy? I think not, although no doubt the left tail of the movement goes quite far out.
Quote:They are in fact, about 1%. Just a different 1% than the ones they are protesting against. But, then again, every 1% should be afforded equal protection.
You say "in fact." Either that doesn't mean what you think it does, or you're going to have to give me some facts to back up your "fact." If you mean people who strongly agree with their goals, insofar as they have them, they are probably more like 25%. If you mean people who vaguely agree, more like 60%. Time sez: 54% favourables for the Occupy Wall Street movement. 99% is, of course, dreaming. But it's closer than 1%.
-Jester