On Making Demands of the 1% and their Low-level Cronies and Knee-Grows.

FSP, ISO, 21st century 'menshevik' ideologues, 'left-demokkkrat' demagogues, and other politically backward, amerikkkan, a$$hats:

"Cede Political Power To The 99%...or Else!" (as part and parcel to specific demands-as-goals-of-the-new-Occupy regime-asserting-itself) is a concrete proposal, for this literally dictates the terms and conditions of the unconditional surrender of the 1%. Especially, if done with a massive occupation of Olympia with all the 'bells n' whistles' (strike actions, blockades, building seizures, etc). An all 'NW G.A.'s send troops to Oly' type situation!

As your proposal stands, the state legislature and governor will move forward with these [budget] cuts WITHOUT penalty from you [as they did- G.L.], OS, the dems, or the far-right. Maybe (hopefully) from the anarchists. Lol.

This proposal sells Obama-like dreams and false hope to a [faux]letariat that still has something to lose materially (besides its chains) and thus still needs to suffer more, lose more, and learn more. You all, in essense, "tell the workers in the handful of rich countries where life is easier, thanks to imperialist pillage, that they must be afraid of ‘too great’ impoverishment, [which] is counter-revolutionary." (Lenin).

This proposal in fact obscures global class analysis, as in REAL Marxism. The astute amongst the 99%, the vanguard element, wish for real power in our day-to-day affairs. We're seizing parks, buildings, and more; and making honest attempts are running our little mini-societies in a fair and just manner as best we can. Out of this dynamic struggle we now see the seeds of dual power being sown.

How does your proposal, during this embryonic stage of worker's democracy in amerikkka, nurture those seeds here and globally? It doesn't. Why? Because it doesn't go far enough!

Further, we the 99% of amerikkka, are 13% of the world's wealthiest, which shapes larger attitudes and worldviews amongst amerikkkans, even, including, and especially amongst the 99% of amerikkka. Thus, we can see the reasoning behind your proposal's appeal to "low information voter/Homer Simpson 'proto-socialist' ". There's a world of difference between your line, that of the Egyptians in Tahir Square, and that of the Greek militants. Or the Naxals in India.

Lenin, one your organization's major prophets, tells us why this is:

"Is the actual condition of the workers in the oppressor and in the oppressed nations the same, from the standpoint of the national question?


No, it is not the same.


(1) Economically, the difference is that sections of the working class in the oppressor nations receive crumbs from the super-profits the bourgeoisie of these nations obtains by extra exploitation of the workers of the oppressed nations. Besides, economic statistics show that here a larger percentage of the workers become “straw bosses” than is the case in the oppressed nations, a larger percentage rise to the labor aristocracy. That is a fact. To a certain degree the workers of the oppressor nations are partners of their own bourgeoisie in plundering the workers (and the mass of the population) of the oppressed nations.


(2) Politically, the difference is that, compared with the workers of the oppressed nations, they occupy a privileged position in many spheres of political life.


(3) Ideologically, or spiritually, the difference is that they are taught, at school and in life, disdain and contempt for the workers of the oppressed nations."

 -V.I. Lenin; A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism: (#5.) Monism And Dualism”.

It was Trotsky, another one of your major prophets, who pointed out how much more the workers learn via real-world struggle than by study alone. Here we have an almost perfect classroom, and now some of the teachers want to teach bourgeois revisionism, instead of genuine scientific socialism, in a real-world situation! This is duplicitous and opportunistic! Either be Marxists or be bourgeois liberals. You cannot be both and not come off as 'fake'.

"Only when the individual worker realizes that he is a member of the entire working class, only when he recognizes the fact that his petty day-to-day struggle against individual employers and individual government officials is a struggle against the entire bourgeoisie does his struggle become a class struggle." (Lenin).

Your proposal puts political dead weight and drag on this process and historic period of self-discovery, as a CLASS, within the hearts and minds of those in amerikkka you seek to reach, while at the same time alienating those who are the most militant and willing to "go there" along side you. This proposal preaches and teaches defeatism and lesser-evilism to both!

You all can do better than this piece of used toilet paper written in 'crazy' talk with a broken crayon.

For the liberals in and amongst this body, "Be unreasonable!" - Tony Robbins.