Occupy Wall Street and Revolution

So sometimes you just need to stop talking and listen to what someone is saying.  Case in point.  Excerpts:

“It’s up to you to decide if our movement goes the way of Paris ’68, the dust bin of could-have-been-insurrections, or something more daring, more inspiring, something not yet dreamed...

Will you allow Occupy to become a project of the old left, the same cabal of old world thinkers who have blunted the possibility of revolution for decades? Will you allow MoveOn, The Nation and Ben & Jerry to put the brakes on our Spring Offensive and turn our struggle into a “99% Spring” reelection campaign for President Obama?

Whatever you do, don’t allow our revolutionary struggle to fizzle out into another lefty whine and clicktivist campaign like has happened so many times in the past...

Okay, having listened, first of all--"clicktivists"?



Secondly, did you catch that reference to Paris '68?  What does that refer to, I wonder?  Excerpts:

About 800,000 students, teachers and workers marched through the French capital demanding the fall of the government under Charles de Gaulle and protesting at police brutality during the riots of the past few days...

They also called for the release of their leaders, many of whom were arrested after a night of rioting three days ago when students ripped up cobbles from the streets to set up barricades.

Workers have a series of grievances including poor state salaries, centralisation and discrimination.

The one-day strike has affected all aspects of daily life in the capital and is spreading out into the rest of the country.

Public transport, air travel, power supplies, postal services and manufacturing have been severely hampered...

The strike spread all across France until around 10 million workers had downed tools and paralysed the nation for nearly two weeks.

They did not have the support of the unions or the Communist Party, who called for calm and moderation.

After workers rejected a deal between government, employers and unions to raise wages, Mr Pompidou sent tanks to the outskirts of Paris on 29 May for fear of a revolution.

De Gaulle then called an election for the end of June - and his party won a huge majority. It seemed voters were exasperated with the unrest and inconvenience of the strike.

Hm. So they dislike the outcome of the Paris 1968 strike. They would like to see "insurrection."

an act or instance of rising in revolt, rebellion, or resistance against civil authority or an established government.

In fact, they become explicit a bit later on. They are railing against the "old left" who have "blunted the possibility of revolution for decades."  They do not merely imagine a single act of rebellion against the "civil authority or an established government."  They want to see "revolution."  They are waging a "revolutionary struggle."

What does that mean?  Well, if we take them seriously, then it would seem reasonable to assume that they are attempting to provoke a second American Revolution.  What does that entail?  Last time, that entailed people willing to sacrifice their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to see the colonies become an independent nation.  It meant armies and a Declaration of Independence.  It meant war.

Is it unreasonable to assume that a substantial portion of the Occupiers are after armed conflict?  Let's see...

And this:

And this:

Marches turned violent in Oakland and San Francisco, where a protester was throwing what appeared to be bricks and metal rods from the roof of a building into the crowd of demonstrators, reporters, and police - injuring at least one person, according to NBC Bay Area. In Seattle, protesters dressed in black smashed windows and police pepper-sprayed some in the crowds...

And this. Be sure to scroll through the pictures. What do the Guy Fawkes masks refer to? This:

Those masks have become symbols of the Occupy movement, as well as of the Anonymous hacktivist collective. So, like it or not, support them or not, let us have no illusions about the logical outcome of the rhetoric and ideological sources of inspiration for Occupy Wall Street and its worldwide imitators. They are declaring themselves to be the enemies of the existing order, calling for a revolution, and acting towards that end. To which I have only one reaction:

...If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Change the laws all you want.  Change the working conditions, the wages, all the external factors all you want.  Change everything in the world around you all you want, and I guarantee you, we will wake up the morning after to see that utopia has not yet come.  Yes, things can and must be improved.  Yes, justice should be pursued and peace should be earnestly sought.  Yes, absolutely.  But that is not enough.

You want to see a true revolution? Here--I give you the blueprints.