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Saint Joan, by Black Agenda Report
There's some talk in veteran left circles about the need to politically "educate" the adamantly leaderless, mostly white young people who have made Zuccotti Park in Manhattan's financial district the center of the U.S. lefty world since September 17. Although there's a large portion of Yippie-like mush in the Zuccotti mix -- the kind of activism that seems more like aroma than substance -- the core is clearly comprised of serious people determined to end the rule of the "One Percent." The 99% versus 1% formula is quite powerful, directing the people's anger towards the class that conducts its oppressive business on Wall Street: finance capitalists.
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) crew has identified the beast in his lair -- which is a very big deal in the United States, a nation that is the most politically backward and confused in the industrial world due to the endemic racism that is its birthright and that has always thwarted the growth of a strong Left. The Zuccotti Park campers are eons ahead of the faux radicals and "progressives" who, in terror of the Tea Party and Republican presidential clown candidates, will soon return to the Obamite fold in their eternal search for lesser evils. Given that so many of the "old heads" of the Left only a few years ago put themselves at the service of Wall Street's presidential candidate -- a talented and attractive Black man who would become the far more effective evil in facilitating the dismantling of the New Deal -- it may be best that they keep their political education classes to themselves.
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