You ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow.
The poignant verse penned by John Lennon years ago, and recorded by the Beatles in the song, Revolution, gives amazing insight into the OWS movement. How many of you were actually aware that the protesters are advocating Maoist philosophy? I bet not many, because in every interview and news report, while 'leaders' and 'followers' struggle with what exactly they hope to accomplish, they avoid mentioning it is the precise message of former Chairman Mao. Because of the brilliance and wisdom of Lennon, they realize they can't just come out and tell us they support Maoist philosophy, we would shun and ostracize them in short order... you ain't gonna make it with anyone, if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao. So they yammer around and speak in platitudes about the 1% vs. the 99%... Greedy capitalists making money off the poor... the overall inequity of wealth.
If you take some time to look up Chairman Mao Zedong, and you read about the "People's Revolution" in China, which brought Mao to power, it is uncanny the remarkable resemblance to the message of the OWS movement. Almost universally, the points are the same, and the objectives of the protests are identical. Mao believed that China's wealth must be redistributed, that the 'upper class' had gained far too much advantage over the average citizen, and that if they could just balance economic equity among the masses, it would unleash his country's greatness. Through class envy, Mao initiated this class warfare, the same as we currently see Liberals engaging in today. He and his sycophants worked the population into a frenzy, eventually overthrowing the government and paving the way for the Mao Dynasty. Oh, it was all done with the best of intentions, everyone, including John Lennon, thought Mao's ideas would work... if only they could confiscate the rich people's money and give it to the poor!
Shortly after Mao came into power, he implemented a host of anti-capitalist policy, China became isolationists, refusing to trade with capitalists or participate in the capitalist markets. Of course, this resulted in dramatically decreased trade revenues, and fostered widespread poverty across China. Mao began by closing banks and financial institutions, arresting bankers and businessmen who engaged in capitalism, executing those who breached his stringent anti-capitalist measures. When conditions in China began to worsen, and the people who had caused the revolution began to get restless, Mao kicked it up a notch, he began literally killing off the wealthy population, and confiscating their fortunes. In theory, if they killed the richest 1%, and gave the money to the 99%... things would be better economically. In practicality, it didn't work. As the central government realized the windfall from executing the rich, the people in the government became more greedy and corrupt, and the money which was supposed to filter down to the masses, never made it to them, instead, it was gobbled up by the political elite, who then controlled all the power in China.
In the end, it is estimated Mao executed 3-4 million "political prisoners" (their only crime was being wealthy.) The Maoist philosophy (same as OWS) never worked... even after sparking an all-out revolution and overthrowing the government. Still, the followers of the philosophy didn't give up, they pressed on... sparking the same revolution in Cambodia decades later, leading to the infamous reign of Pol Pot. Now... Pol Pot believed totally in Mao's philosophy, he just thought Mao implemented it incorrectly. With a few 'tweaks' he just knew the idea could work. The biggest problem Pol Pot had with Mao's implementation, is that he allowed too much time to pass before he started executing the wealthy, and he spent too much time trying to justify the killing. So Pol Pot immediately began mass executions, to get the wealth redistributed more quickly, before the government turned corrupt.... but the problem is, people who are killing folks for being wealthy, are already pretty darned corrupt to begin with. After setting the record for most heinous and brutal dictator in human history, Pol Pot was finally stopped by Vietnam... Communist Vietnam! Yes, it became so atrocious, reprehensible and intolerable, the other COMMIES had to intervene to stop it!
You say you want a Revolution?
Do you, really?
OMG, I can't believe you wrote that. You and common sense are strangers, my friend. In fact, you're polar opposites. And I'm not just referring to your comments regarding OWS.
