Self-Admitted Marxist Professor Speaks At Occupy Wall Street, Says Violence Can Only Be Avoided If 1% Share Their Wealth, “Accept Demands of 99%”…
Violent class warfare, how progressive.
(NYP) — Some 50 Occupy Wall Street protesters saw red yesterday — giving an enthusiastic welcome to a genuine communist.
Alex Callinicos, a professor of European Studies at Kings College in London, announced to his rapt audience, “I am a Marxist.’’
Asked if the upcoming revolution can be non-violent, he parroted the party line of the demonstrators, who call themselves the 99 percent of Americans lined up against the “1 percent’’ with power and money.
He said violence could be avoided only if the “1 percent accept the decisions of the 99 percent,’’ which he predicted would never happen.
While he was speaking about the revolution, most of the demonstrators in Zuccotti Park were making plans for a long, cold winter.
“It’s been dumping snow here in NYC. . . high winds and 3 inches of slush on the ground. . . [and] those occupying Liberty Plaza [Zuccotti’s former name]. . . are in need of emergency supplies crucial for cold-weather survival,” organizers said on their Web site.
Their elaborate wish list included “insulated gloves, wool hats, scarves, long underwear/smart wool thermal socks, all-weather sub-thermal sleeping bags [and] all-weather tents.”
And sympathetic supporters were quick to deliver.
“I was feeling really bad for them yesterday,” said Beth Kelley, 47, an ex-Wall Street worker who brought fleece hats and scarves.
But not everyone felt sorry for the soggy masses.
Nick Hommen, 29, a volunteer from Salem, Ore., who was handling donations, said some demonstrators were taking advantage of people’s generosity.
“We can’t afford to keep buying new tents. It’s ridiculous the sense of entitlement people feel,” Hommen said.
Posted by ZIP on Monday, October 31, 2011, at 8:57 am | 
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I saw that. I think most “professors” need to go to reeducation camps in order to become human beings. A fucker like that Brit could never find gainful employment in the private sector so instead he lives on the public dime and advocates policies that are destructive. I wish he would be forcibly moved to North Korea.
The 1% already share their wealth by paying 80% of all tax revenue. The squatters need to get off their asses and earn their own keep.
Strangely enough, these people actually BELIEVE that they are going to change the world. They think that their protests are going to totally alter society and re-order the financial profile of the masses.
They are deluded.
u 99%,ers would really impress us if u gave away ur stuff and stop taking handouts, food, shelter, water, bathrooms,internet, and go off and start ur own society
Nick Hommen, 29, a volunteer from Salem, Ore., who was handling donations, said some demonstrators were taking advantage of people’s generosity.
You gotta love the sense of superiority of the young elitist leftists. Other than the occasional communist standing up and giving an incoherent rabble-rousing speech, pretty much everyone there is sitting around, banging drums, engaging in the occasional chant, doing drugs, or looking around for the latest food handout. Whether you went to college or not, whether your parents support you or you are homeless does not matter in the least to how useful one is at these occupy events. Having warm bodies to stage clashes with the police and pose for the cameras is all that matters.
Yet we keep hearing the whining of the self-professed “elites” at these events complaining about the homeless eating their gourmet meals and taking their free top-of-the line camping equipment. These elites think they are contributing more than simply a warm body to this “movement” because they have student loans to pay off and are holding up (what they think are) witty signs with Nyan cat and other meme drawings. After all, the homeless and unemployed laborers have nothing to complain about; they didn’t go to college and rack up debt.
WAAAHHHH!!
Why CAN’T we get some of those heaters like they have at NFL football games?
WE WANT THEM!!
Don’t make us beat our heads on the sidewalk until we get what we want,
We’ll DO IT!!
DON’T CALL OUR BLUFF!!
Just more Commie nonsense, yea try to do this with your marxizt gov’t. Prof. Gulag! Gulag! Gulag!
But now the fun has really begun. It’s the ” population of the world insanity” soon to reach your schools and the Liberal base near you! Like globull warming world population growth is the next crisis to be shoved at our western culture. Remember zero population growth???? I remember it in Canada. Next we were told our country isn’t growing. We have no people for menial jobs Not enough strippers, yea really. We need huge immigration. Especially from China and Arab countries. People with money. Especially if money’s involved. Oh yea, our food must be shared. We’re living too well. The poor remember. All over the world. Our fault. They’re poor. It’s our duty to feed ‘em. Right?
Chicken Little Inc. Mass media and liberal belief. Mass stupidity follows.
Hammer Lib—-The 1% already share their wealth by paying 80% of all tax revenue.—-
you’re little confused there, buddy. that 1% who own more of the country’s financial wealth than the bottom 95 % ———-pay 38% of the income taxes collected.
http://www.heritage.org/budgetchartbook/top10-percent-income-earners
If these fringers represent 99% of the population, then why is it that they can’t turn out more than about 1000 protesters on a good day, which is about .0125% of the NYC population? They can”t get 1/100th of 1 percent to support them, yet they speak for the 99%? Laughable fools.
Would be nice if the left would start something. Many are waiting for the right excuse to cull the Marxists and Islamists from this country’s population.
The scary thing is that Bill Clinton was a draft dodger and war protester. John Kerry made his name as a protester. obama came from affirmative action programs. Someday one of these OWS clowns may find his way to a position of power. Probably as a Democrat.
The 99% are the liars and radicals brainwashing these collage crowd time to deduct their pay check by 75% so they can redistribute their unearned wealth
====time to deduct their pay check by 75% so they can redistribute their unearned wealth====
their paychecks are gonna be a source of unearned wealth?
He said violence could be avoided only if the “1 percent accept the decisions of the 99 percent,’’ which he predicted would never happen.
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the anarchists and communists can’t count…they are not 99%…
not even in their wildest dreams…
the anarchists and communists are the 1%…
and are making demands that the 99% support them..
We going to hold our breath till you give us our way, here I go.
Can somebody please tell me how somebody being rich prevents me from working hard and accululating wealth myself, ’cause I just don’t get it.
oops – accumulating
Um. I don’t negotiate with terrorist.
FOAD
Oops. TerroristS.
—-the anarchists and communists can’t count…they are not 99%…—-
they certainly are not. and if only people stopped voting for the entire Anarchist slate and instead voted for individuals, they might not dominate the Congress the way that they do, despite not being 99%.
the communists we can stop worrying about. they withered their way out of Congress and now only control the Florida and a few other Southern states.
Dear Professor, there is one unfortunate little fly in your revolutionary soup. The 1% own the gun factories.
they withered their way out of Congress and now only control the Florida and a few other Southern states.
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I guess you haven’t been to Chicago lately…
Marxism/ Occupiers same oh same oh, total idiots
Hey Alex, ESAD……………get a translator if necessary!
Rob—is it any different now than it was in 68 ?
Fuster -it is not 1968.
sorry reality, little bit of an NYC swipe at Chicago…… we hate them cause where fear them…not
(we do worry about the Beantown Red Sox though)