From the NY Post (emphasis mine):
Some 50 Occupy Wall Street protesters saw red yesterday — giving an enthusiastic welcome to a genuine communist.
Alex Callinicos, a professor of European Studies at Kings College in London, announced to his rapt audience, “I am a Marxist.’’
Asked if the upcoming revolution can be non-violent, he parroted the party line of the demonstrators, who call themselves the 99 percent of Americans lined up against the “1 percent’’ with power and money.
He said violence could be avoided only if the “1 percent accept the decisions of the 99 percent,’’ which he predicted would never happen.
True to form, this Leftist walked up to "the line" and let his audience listen between the syllables for the true message. If he had really been truthful, he would have simply said "yes", but just couldn’t resist the Class Envy that Marxists (and many academics) posses.
"Accept"? The entire underlying premise of this movement can be summed up in one phrase:
They stole it. We’re gonna take it.
(notice I didn’t say "back") That is it. Simple, isn’t it? And that makes everything leading from that perfectly legitimate. Prosecutor, witness, jury, and judge – Marxists love to wrap these roles all up into themselves, and he does!
Therefore it follows, since the 1% are thieves, they should be demonized. And once demonized, they have surely already been convicted, right? The final step? They, the 1%, must be punished.
However, here’s their magic key – the good Marxist Professor provides for the ultimate "out" – on your knees and beg forgiveness. Give us what we demand, and we will let you go (yeah, we saw how this worked out in the French Revolution and the Bolshevik one as well). Give us what you have – we’ll let you quietly go.
This is, in their terms, what Democracy looks. We make the demands, you acquiesce. Just like a Jr. High bully picking on a 4th grader on the way home. How is this any different than the mobster saying "pretty store you have here – pity if something were to happen to your Mom".
In this Marxist mindset, the 1% must be punished but again, in their minds, this "out" allows them to feel blameless if the trigger needs to be pulled (or the bat swung or knife sharpened. And WHERE is that darn guillotine!) .
Thus, being thieves and therefore must be punished, it marches lockstep to the next which is the taking. And the good Professor Callinicos is the one issuing the call for it.
And the OWSers lapped it up and made it their own. In this case, their Greed for what other have (notice that they never accede to the idea that someone in the 1% has earned their wealth fair and square – no, that would spoil the narrative). Greed, envy – not the best of traits.
First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother’s (Matt 7:5, not that it would matter to most of them)
or, how about this:
He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone (John 8:7)
for it is easy to see that they are well past "Thou shalt not covet". And now you know part of why religion is one traditional value Marxists outlaw first – it removes the philosophical checkpoint from doing this type of action.
There is a reason why our Founders created a check and balance, representative Republic in our Constitution as they knew that a simple democracy, a "direct democracy" was nothing better than a mob.
Beware the ‘direct democracy’.
