Well since I don't see anything going on in the debate thread about this I think this is a good place to post.

So what is everyone's position on this? I for one fully support this movement. For to long have the 1% dominated our world. Some may think of me as anti-capitalist, but you know what when the system allows for such injustices to happen maybe its time that the rules changed.

Well, I'll support it as soon as someone can demonstrate a system that doesn't fall into Unstable Equilibrium.

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The current system is indeed pretty terrible.

A system where there would be no need to hoard resources.

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I think anyone who claims to be communist should first live in North Korea for a year - odds are they'd abandon that idea.

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Living isn't easy when you're far away from home...

Communism doesn't automatically mean North Korea conditions
Anyway, I'd say I support the movement.

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Re-quoting my friend here, mainly because he summed up my feelings well.

"If one thinks of "Free Markets" as completely free then that is the same as having no government or anarchy. As we have evolved and we spend more time in groups we realize we must have rules to ensure that one person's freedom does not diminish another person's freedom. To ensure justice. Our economic systems have become extremely complex and require more rules to ensure justice. If more rules to ensure justice are anti-capitalist, then that is exactly what we need."

North Korea is not Communism!


And re the original topic: Thumbs up for Occupy Wallstreet. Innovative protests! If they will be effective - we'll see. But I like them

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"Humans or their tools are not inherently destructive - it is a lack of wisdom & respect in the ways the two relate to each other & to earth, that turns into destruction. A lack of these in interactions between humans is the foundation of this destruction. To change these ways, a new foundation has to be laid, even if that means to shake the building standing on it."

Yes, it is. Just like Soviet Russia, and Communist China (they've actually managed to get all the negatives of capitalism AND communism all blended into one)


The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. Communists are the very definition of insane.

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Hoorah bitches. Hoo-f*cking-rah!

"Fill your enemies with primal fear, then fill their lungs with fire!" ―Ancient Gand proverb

OWS has my support 100%.

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Mike Malloy, a voice of reason in a world gone mad.

"You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling." - Inception

"Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy **** we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." - Tyler Durden

Where did you get the idea that the Occupy movement is communist?

I'm all for the Occupy movements, not just in Wall St but the ones sprouting throughout the globe. People are realising that they don't have to keep bailing all these banks out and they can voice their indignation publically to both their own government and the world that this doesn't have to be the way things are. Plus the whole concentration of the battle of the working and ruling class is used by both communists and socialists.

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"The man who learns only what
others know is as ignorant as if he
learns nothing. The treasures of knowledge
are the most rare, and guarded most harshly." -Chronicle of the First Age

"Try to see the forest through her eyes."

Réalisant mon espoir, Je me lance vers la gloire. Je ne regrette rien. (Making my hope come true, I hurl myself toward glory. I regret nothing.)

In other words, fascist communism. True egalitarian communism has yet to be used in practice.

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Because it inevitably falls into fascist communism.

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Hoorah bitches. Hoo-f*cking-rah!

"Fill your enemies with primal fear, then fill their lungs with fire!" ―Ancient Gand proverb

Not if you structure it right. Michael Moore has some VERY interesting ideas about how the government and the corporate sector should be run. His ideas sound very communist/socialist(IE all resources owned in common), but the spin he would have on them might actually make them work. If anyone is getting involved in this I suggest they pick up "Here Comes Trouble" Moore's latest book.

That's what the last three groups said.

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Hoorah bitches. Hoo-f*cking-rah!

"Fill your enemies with primal fear, then fill their lungs with fire!" ―Ancient Gand proverb

True communism hasn't even been used yet. These groups started with their own variation of the original idea, which became corrupt and turned fascist.

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