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St Paul's camp and anti-capitalism


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Help.


What is this trying to achieve?


Don't these people have jobs to go to? Or has capitalism liberated them from the need to go to work?


One of the reasons China, India, Brazil etc are powering ahead is they don't pay people to do nothing - if you don't work you don't eat.


I vounteer to go to St Paul's tomorrow with my clipboard and anyone there is obviously not looking for work - or daddy and mummy have so much money they are allowed to play (anti-capitalist) politics until the trust funds click in.


I've no objection to the right to protest. Futile protests, paid for by the very system you object to, appear to be biting the hand that feeds you.

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reggie Wrote:

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> Also how we can tell whether a protest is futile or not?


Well, a good question is, has it achieved it's aims and objectives? In the case of OccupyLSX, well it doesn't seem to have any aims and objectives. Except, of course, it's name "OccupyLSX" and in that it has singularly failed.

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I guess that the easiest way of finding their aims and objectives is to ask them - and they don't seem to have an answer according to any journo (left or right) who has asked them.


That makes your second question a wee bit redundant - it doesn't have to be futile if it doesn't achieve its aims (it's a journey after all), but if it doesn't have an aim then it cannot even partially achieve it.

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When I visited the camp the other day they had a list of aims, about 12, written on a big bit of cardboard outside their media tent.

Their website Occupylsx.org has no list of stated aims but does say this on their press page:


"Occupy London ? part of the global movement for real democracy aiming to challenge social and economic injustice in the UK and beyond"


Im not sure what 'real democracy' means but challenging social and economic injustice is a concept that many can understand.

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The demonstration is being seriously undermined by the lack of a coherent aim or message. The statement on their website is so broad and vague, ranging from industry regulation through to global oppression.


I wouldn't call the demonstration futile, as people have a good reason to be angry... if their primary objective is to communicate their anger to the government and the greater public, then so be it. But it is a shame that they are not being a bit more constructive.

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It's also so bloody unsightly. I find myself in agreement with the view that everyone has an absolute right to protest but that the protest should be conducted standing up and not involve camping out.


The message, whatever it is, is not reinforced by establishing a tent city in prime London sites. I include the apparently permanent Westminster camp in this - despoiling what should be a public space for all to enjoy, but where the green square has to be fenced off to prevent further squatting protesters.

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> Will be interesting to see what develops after 6.00pm tonight - the deadline given to the campers

> by which time they should have moved on. I hope they do move on, or get moved on.


The campers won't budge. The City of London will take it to court. Expect the whole matter to last weeks.

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Laugh at them. Those fools camping out. Laugh at them. They aren't worth a damn thing


Right?


"When students cvrd their eyes with thr clothing, police forced open their mouths & pepper-sprayed down their throats" http://t.co/UMV0vQrH



And when the met come for the london versions who is to say. But fuck it right? They are just

Middle class twats.



Nothing to worry about here.

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> "When students cvrd their eyes with thr clothing, police forced open their mouths & pepper-sprayed

> down their throats" http://t.co/UMV0vQrH


There is videos of the incident all over the internet, so everyone can see what happened. Yes, the police dis pepper spray a bunch of peaceful protesters. That in itself is enough for outright public revulsion.


So why did this person outright lie and over-egg the incident? Correct me if I am wrong, but nowhere can I find footage of the police forcing "open their mouths & pepper-sprayed down their throats". And there were a lot of videos from the incident.


Someone on the Guardian site had a good word for this. They called it 'hyperbollocks". And it undermines the truth, which is bad enough. Why make something up?

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Unregulated capitalism has seriously undermined global well being and democracy. The 'Occupy' movement is attempting to encourage a debate on how we organise our society and economy in light of the global economic crisis. This thread would suggest that they are going someway to achieving this aim. It is hardly fair to criticise them for not providing easy answers.

It's easy to label the movement 'anti-capitalist' and snigger at someone buying a coffee, but this seems pretty flippant to me. It is not anti-capitalist to suggest that internaional markets are often unbalanced, irrational and inefficient and that they often lead to undesirable outcomes. We have any opporutnity to reengineer / refine the way that capitalism is currently structured for the better.

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