99% Greed, 1% Bored

Greed – inappropriate expectation

 

If you think about it, the 99% or Occupy Wall Street movement isn’t really just about informing anyone that “we are here”. To really understand the purpose of this marching in the streets and “occupying” we have to trace the movement’s origin. The whole effort is based on a radical prediction made by Karl Marx, author of “The Communist Manifesto”. He suggested that classes of people existed in which some were richer, some poorer. The rich class, the “bourgeoisie”, ruled over the poor class, the “proletariat”. Marx believed that capitalism itself was to blame for poverty and mistreatment of workers and that the poor would one day obtain “class awareness”, as he called it, and unite across the world to overthrow the bourgeoisie in a “bloody revolution”.

This is the origin of the 99% movement. The problem with this view, as some philosophers have asserted, is that Marx could not have predicted the spread of wealth across classes and the subsequent expansion of the middle class that free market capitalism has caused. Also, Marx may have hijacked his own prediction of world-wide revolution simply by writing about it. Ideologues across the globe have tried to force a Marxist revolution time and again without success. These attempts have led to much killing and destruction at the hands of political leaders and left a bad taste in the mouths of the people.

Marxism appears to still hold some sway in America mostly among youths without much knowledge of history. This movement appears to hold a strong mentality of entitlement to the same rewards of the previous generation, or better rewards than the previous generation, without the same sacrifice. Is it really the noble revolution the “Occupiers” would have us believe? Or, is it just rootless youths who aren’t getting rich fast enough to satisfy their own greed?

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