As They Lay Dieing, Lastly on the Okkupy Movement

I can't agree more with your thesis. The people that make up the Okkupy movement are simply reacting to the fact that they can't find jobs in this crippled racist economy. Black communities in Amerika have twice the unemployment but Okkupy put pressure on Black activists to join the movement without understanding Black working class conditions and without providing resources to get folks to actions. As for the total disregard for the Native Tribes this is as a result of brain washing white folk have yet to recover from but to recover from it must be a deliberate act of self education and personal humiliation and then and only then can one beg for forgiveness from the Native Tribes. My family has gone through several fortunes exploiting Native lands over the last 400 years. I have turned myself inside out with regret and humiliation over this.

We need to gut European racism of all it's will.

Itīs about time for some truth regarding Occupy, and Americans in general. The one percent have enslaved, exploited, and stolen from 79% of the worldīs population. The 10.5% of Europeans and 5.5% of North Americans got fat used 80% of the earthīs resources and wasted landfills of resources. Now that the 1% is no longer capable of exploiting to the same degree, the other 79% of the worldīs population as they once did, and the earth has less to give than it once did, because of western Greed, Americans and Europeans are no longer going to be able Enjoy their ill gotten gains. For many accustomed to living like Pigs this is troubling and they want the 1% to fix it and bring back the good old days. Well thank Goodness the good old days are not coming back and the 79% are demanding more than their previous 19% of the earthīs resources. Until Americans in general and Occupy specifically take responsibility for the 19% over consumption and waste, and not scapegoat the 1% for not continuing to bring home the war booty, it will remain hypocritical and just another distraction.

alternatively, the author is mentally deranged.

Please, more of the "500 years of continuous oppression" / "KKK" (?) narrative - with an Occupy movement that has offered the only sign of visible resistance since the rise of Reagan post-November-1980, "analyses" like this drivel are sorely needed.

Occupy is hardly the only resistance since the 80's. In fact, who even remembers the 80's. The wave of protests that began with WTO/Seattle/'99 is just one example of precedent before Occupy.

Occupy has succeeded to an extent. It won media attention & ratcheted conversation upward. But where are occupations now? London's remains vigorous. Where are others?

Occupy in many places has evolved into organizations, with offices & staff & so on. We did not need more organizations. There are already groups working on various justice issues & could use help. We don't need new organizations. Reinventing wheels wastes resources.

Occupy made certain tactical errors, but then who hasn't. One mistake was claiming that Occupy was leaderless when we saw repeatedly that that was not the case. Another mistake was the "we are the 99%" thing. Wrong math.

The fact that Occupy has remained a fringe movement is proof that the math was wrong. The "large" initial rallies & marches immediately dwindled down to mere hundreds left to actually occupy, while most others went home & continued to aspire to be "the 1%". The math was wrong.

Most people still have their money in banks. Most still shop at wal-mart & eat at mcdonald's & watch fox & get all excited when million-dollar athletes run around fields & courts. Most people still vote for republicans & democrats.

The original post is mostly right. It's depressing but right. Humans do not get it, not just here, but everywhere. People do not get it. And never will.

I haven't given up. I still work for justice, but primarily at state & local levels. I haven't given up, because my anger keeps me going. I have no hope for national & international scenes. People are nuts everywhere.

My spirit would be boosted only if Pacific Northwest would secede, only if Republic of Cascadia would happen. But those of us who would cause that would be murdered, by the feds, & by our neighbors, who would shout "USA! USA!" as they killed us.

Lloyd - Every person is entitled to resources that see to it that they have a healthy secure survival and effective means of communication. Don't feel guilty if you're living a lifestyle as such, only feel guilty if you are not devoting all of your excess to bringing about global equality the best way you know how. It's true that revolutionaries in the first-world are behind enemy lines, but having pockets of true solidarity with the third-world can only be a good thing when the third-world rises up with revolutionary science in the lead and the time comes to go all out to destroy the first-world as we know it. All of your excess should go to building organization for that glorious day amongst those who've demonstrated that they can do fine without an Amerikan lifestyle. People who live Amerikan lifestyle are enemies of humanity, even those who profess to be revolutionaries, especially those who profess to be revolutionaries. The only people who can lead a revolution all the way to where it needs to go are those who've demonstrated that they're willing to give their all to the cause of liberating all of humanity from the dictatorship of the capitalist class.

The numbers of people not having jobs in the first-world is expected to grow given that the liberals are steadily trying to enact policies that keep the capitalist class from being able to compete against other capitalists who (thanks to imperialism) are able to more viciously exploit workers in other countries. What happens though is that as the liberals run away more and more capital(ists), and more and more Amerikans can't get jobs, is that they will become overt fascists looking around for the first group of people they can blame as to why Amerikans can't lead the lifestyles they've grown accustomed to. They've tasted the blood of the third-world and simply want more.

Others- The okkupy movement is not resistance. The okkupy movement is fascism. Let me be very clear, rallying first-world people around economic issues is the very essence of fascism. When first-world people are in the streets demanding that they have less, that they want to give back all that has been stolen for them from the third-world then that will be resistance. That day will never come. Serious revolutionaries have to ask the question: "Who are our friends, and who are our enemies?" Typical Amerikans are our enemies. Amerikans who believe they deserve even more than they already have had stolen for them are really, really our enemies.

Den - Yes, I think it should be very telling to those still blind enough to believe that there is a potential revolutionary force amongst the common people in the United Snakes, that even despite extensive media coverage the okkupy leadership is unable to gather more people than some high school football games, or, say, if any random group said that there would be naked people and free food at (name your venue). Typical Amerikans have no interest in changing the world that they already are on top of. Typical Amerikans are enemies of humanity.

"Others- The okkupy movement is not resistance. The okkupy movement is fascism. Let me be very clear, rallying first-world people around economic issues is the very essence of fascism. "

Don't think you understand what fascism is. Fascism is monied political forces consolidating production to benefit the privileged few, ie, the 1%. By definition fascism cannot be something initiated at the street level. Get a dictionary.

OTOH this could be a fair criticism: "When first-world people are in the streets demanding that they have less, that they want to give back all that has been stolen for them from the third-world then that will be resistance."

Except why do you assume this isn't part of many Occupiers goals? The consequence of first worlders demanding economic parity will set (or reset as the case may be) economic expectations. This benefits everyone. And lets face it, first world workers should be leading for no other reason than they are closest to the problem and are protected by their privilege for the abuses protesters in less fortunate countries face.

Not really seeing what you're objection is.