What is Occupy Wallstreet?

[kandrathe]

I do have to say, Winston Churchill certainly had a way with words, heh. But he was wrong

I rather liked this one...

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Yes? Well socialism is exactly the reverse. -- Len Deighton, quoting an anonymous Czechoslovakian joke in the 1960s, in Funeral in Berlin (1964)

And... I respect Marx for his ideological scholarship... I think where he is weakest is in his hand waving on his expectations on the rising consciousness of the proletariat. As we've seen, ultimately, human survival will overrule loftier goals. Which is why, I believe that when the Occupy Everything movement hits -25 degree wind chills in NYC, human survival instincts will remind the protesters of the advantages of central heating and the other civilized amenities of housing.

A simpler test of socialism is that if Deebye had two beers for the whole weekend, would he willingly share one with you or I, or would he keep them both for himself?