Monday, May 14, 2012

Protesters in Chicago Launch: "Week Without Capitalism."

Dozens of demonstrators dashed into the Chicago Loop building housing President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters this morning, slipping past security guards and running up escalators as they kicked off what they called a "Week Without Capitalism," reports the Chicago Tribune.



Eight protesters were led out in handcuffs about half an hour later after they refused to clear the lobby. They were cheered by other demonstrators who began dancing and singing folk and gospel songs, according to the Tribune.

The demonstration, organized by the Catholic Worker movement. began with about 100 demonstrators picketing at Prudential Plaza and passing out rolls to commuters in what they called a symbolic invitation to break bread with world leaders expected in Chicago this weekend for the NATO summit.


The group said members of Catholic Worker communities from at least 10 states gathered over the weekend for a retreat, and that Monday's demonstration was meant to kick off "Week Without Capitalism" involving “nonviolent resistance to the corporate G8/NATO agenda.”


This group needs a lesson on the difference between capitalism and crony capitalism.






9 comments:

  1. Why don't we stop calling it crony capitalism. It's not capitalism at all. If anything, it's corporate statism but that too much of a mouthful for most people. It's closer to fascism really but most people don't understand that either.

    We could call it Banksterism or even just Corporatism. Banksterism has nicer ring to it though.

    Call it what you will, but let's find some other term than crony capitalism.

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    1. By the same logic, corporatism makes it seems like corporations are inherently the problem, so that name is definitely out as well. (Same with banksterism)

      I'd say fascism is perfect.

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  2. Why stop at a week? I think the protesters should try spending a year without the fruits of private capital formation. Then report back.

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  3. What a shame that Catholics don't learn economics from their own School of Salamanca and Murray Rothbard.

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  4. Love how the Marxists always add a popular religious name to their communist front groups......those of us who have educated ourselves on what is happening, know it, but there are those who have remained ignorant on the issues and would think it is truly the Catholic church in support of this communist group, most likely founded by Soros

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  5. I would LOOOVE a week without capitalism.

    Because 48 years without capitalism has really sucked.

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  6. Can we send these bozos to North Korea or Cuba, so they may experience the total absence of capitalism for life? And to the anonymous commenter who remarked on the Catholic connection: this might not have official Church support, but there are many nuns & lay Catholics who have been sucked in by the "social justice" movement. They really think this is what Jesus would do, and see no resemblance to the statism that the late Holy Father John Paul II fought against.

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  7. It is a shame because the founder of the Catholic Worker, Dorothy Day, was an anarchist. She sympathized with the Left, but ultimately disagreed that a central government was the correct or appropriate force to solve the problems of scarcity and poverty. In other words, she realized that violence is not the answer.

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    1. She was a socialist anarchist and believed in democracy. Left-wing anarchists don't seem to understand that pure democracy, even at the local level is still fundamentally coercive. Of course, they would argue that the volunteerism of the market, i.e. anarcho-capitalism, is coercive because the means of production are consolidated in private, and not public, hands.

      Most instructive in studying marxist anarchists is that the true definition of democracy is gleaned. The "people" would vote to consolidate the means of production into their hands and out of those of the greedy capitalists. Democracy is merely a nice way of saying communism.

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