Quote:TBF Donating Member (1000+ posts) Sun Oct-09-11 01:37 PM
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Dear Occupiers (a letter from anarchists)

This was posted today on Occupy Wall Street's FB page. I may not agree with all elements of it, and you may not either, but I thought it was pretty brilliant as a whole:

Quote:Why should you listen to us? In short, because we’ve been at this a long time already. We’ve spent
decades struggling against capitalism, organizing occupations, and making decisions by consensus. If
this new movement doesn’t learn from the mistakes of previous ones, we run the risk of repeating them.
We’ve summarized some of our hard-won lessons here. Occupation is nothing new. The land we stand on is
already occupied territory. The United States was founded upon the extermination of indigenous peoples and the
colonization of their land, not to mention centuries of slavery and exploitation ...

The problem isn’t just a few “bad apples.” The crisis is not the result of the selfishness of a few investment
bankers; it is the inevitable consequence of an economic system that rewards cutthroat competition at every level of
society ...

Police can’t be trusted. They may be “ordinary workers,” but their job is to protect the interests of the ruling class ...

Much more here (in pdf form so you can print it if you like for easier reading): http://cloudfront.crimethinc.com/images/...earoccu...

Pretty much should answer any questions. It's all about destroying Capitalism and ushering in Marxism.

it's funny how this person basically believes that Marxism doesn't engender any kind of corruption