#D17
Time to assemble once more.
This kid’s got an attitude that you just can’t fix. Pepper spray. Truncheons. Gas. Confinement. Brutality. Nothing works. You tell him he can’t loiter and he pitches a tent. You tell him he can’t assemble and he brings his friends. You tell him to be quiet and he starts a mic check. You raise your baton in one hand and squeeze the trigger on the pepper spray canister in the other. You curse this kid’s existence because deep down you know you’ll have to go through it all again … and even worse, you think he might be right.
The discourse of our world is shifting. Today is the three-month anniversary of Occupy. It’s a time to reflect, to celebrate, to think about what has been achieved already and about what’s coming up next.
From pole to pole, from East to West, people are rising up! It started in Tunisia, it moved to Egypt, then to New York, and now there are rumblings in Russia and the Far East.
Let’s celebrate our successes and dream up new offensives. Out in the streets, in our homes, as we occupyxmas and as we hibernate for the winter, let’s take this day to revel in the birth and ongoing life of our movement. And as we brainstorm this winter, what do you see happening in the next stage? Share your thoughts, tactics, epiphanies, and revelations below … and no matter what … let’s come out swinging when the crocuses bloom next Spring.
Here’s to the Year of the Dragon,
from all of us here at Adbusters
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All economic systems are designed, in one way or another, such that people work as best they can and receive what they need to live a good life. In an ideal world, all economic systems do this. In Capitalism, people work in exchange for wages, which are then traded for goods and services. In Communism, people work, and the fruits of their labor are distributed by the government so everyone has what they need. But in the real world, economic systems never work this well. Under Capitalism, unemployment prevents people from working to their full ability. Not having wages, these people cannot put food on their tables. Additionally, because people are compelled to work in order to eat, people can be forced to work under unsafe conditions. Under Communism, people might not work because there is a less direct connection between work and reward. Additionally, the economy can become bogged down by bureaucracy and corruption.
I believe that in order to move the world in the right direction, we need to formulate an economic system that not only works in an ideal world, but also the real world. After this is devised, the Occupy movement should adopt it as an economic platform. Then we will be able to gain political legitimacy as a party.
Please post you opinions as to how a good economic system could work.
Anonymous
All economic systems are designed, in one way or another, such that people work as best they can and receive what they need to live a good life. In an ideal world, all economic systems do this. In Capitalism, people work in exchange for wages, which are then traded for goods and services. In Communism, people work, and the fruits of their labor are distributed by the government so everyone has what they need. But in the real world, economic systems never work this well. Under Capitalism, unemployment prevents people from working to their full ability. Not having wages, these people cannot put food on their tables. Additionally, because people are compelled to work in order to eat, people can be forced to work under unsafe conditions. Under Communism, people might not work because there is a less direct connection between work and reward. Additionally, the economy can become bogged down by bureaucracy and corruption.
I believe that in order to move the world in the right direction, we need to formulate an economic system that not only works in an ideal world, but also the real world. After this is devised, the Occupy movement should adopt it as an economic platform. Then we will be able to gain political legitimacy as a party.
Please post you opinions as to how a good economic system could work.
Anonymous
I enjoy how you said all of this! :)
Thoughtful.
Sorry, I don't have an answer.
I don't believe in economic systems anymore.
I believe in a civil system - where people are good to each other - over anything else.
That makes an economic system secondary or perhaps dare I say it completely nonexistent...
Anonymous
I enjoy how you said all of this! :)
Thoughtful.
Sorry, I don't have an answer.
I don't believe in economic systems anymore.
I believe in a civil system - where people are good to each other - over anything else.
That makes an economic system secondary or perhaps dare I say it completely nonexistent...
shep.glennon
Good criticisms. I don't know the answer, either.
shep.glennon
Good criticisms. I don't know the answer, either.
Anonymous
Thanks for you input. I doubt any of us have the answer, but I'd be obliged for you to put in your best guess. Personnally, I think some form of democratic socialism has the best chance of working.
Anonymous
Thanks for you input. I doubt any of us have the answer, but I'd be obliged for you to put in your best guess. Personnally, I think some form of democratic socialism has the best chance of working.
occupapa
TNP3 A political party is embedded in an economic system and vice versa. Ancient Greek factions, past revolutionary parties from Europe, and the USA's electoral history are confusing lessons to learn from. Economics and its alter ego ecology, is confused by imperialist states, hoary patriarchal church-state-corporate arrangements, and by incomplete economic analyses. If the worst of global-warming doesn't happen, we have the time to complete the analysis and apply it to winning a worldwide revolution.
To win a world-wide election we must study the physics of economics involving the variables S and V, which Marx introduced but weren't fully explained. S has been called: production, substance, labor, food, movement, surplus labor, and constant capital. V has been called consumption, magnitude, value, hunger, rest, surplus value, and variable capital. S is the dividend, V is the divisor. The divisor's action explains the subjective and objective meaning of the dividend.
Its physics, because dividing S by V produces an exact mathematical result which calculates how many people are fed, and how many people aren't fed. S ÷ V = F . F stands for feeding or being fed. Its the force people use to supply food, as well as the force people have once they are fed. The equation F = S ÷ V , is derived from F = M ÷ A , which is an alteration of Newton's F = M × A , which is the classic equation to describe exploding bombs. When M mass is divided by A acceleration, and M is the mass of all the world's food, and A is the acceleration — the activity and energy — of all the people dividing all the food in to aliquot parts, however, you get an equation that describes how to feed people. C. A. Bradfield
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