Thoughts On Utopian Capitalism

The US Tea Party protests seem to be shaking things up in American conservatism, both politically and religiously among the ‘evangelicals’. But I wonder what all the dissenters from the left have accomplished recently. Not much of anything. They fill some streets in a few cities, wave unread signs and choke on some tear gas. Black panther types smash a few windows, but afterwards, the 24-hour news cycle moves on and people are left feeling empty. Nothing has changed and the left over molotov cocktails sputter out.
In a perverse way, their protests may actually be reinforcing and validating the global consumerist regimes. I get the distinct impression that the G20 types of summit leaders and organizers sigh with relief when they learn that the protesters are once again mobilizing massive protests against them. After all, what would a successful economic summit be without thousands of angry underemployed and long term unemployed protestors clashing with ranks of automatonic riot police and/ or troops with a few overturned and burning police cars in the streets? Without sporadic semi-violent spectacles like that, Capitalism would lose its dynamic spark, not especially by those not afraid to protest and riot…but to those too scared to riot.
Perhaps it’s time to deny them their regularly scheduled spectacles and try something new.
For the next economic summit, why don’t we all just ignore it. Instead of massive displays of anger, give them silent empty streets…silence…not a sound, not a person protesting to validate their billion dollar security budgets.
Reuse to react, refuse to engage, refuse to make demands. There is no real reason to do so because they already know what we, what all people want. We all need for their system to die. Why make demands of the things you want to destroy? Negotiating only grants further legitimacy and continuity to their regimes.
Instead, live on the prowl, pulling of minor acts of rebellion that frustrate their doomsday machine at every turn. Acts like destroy those places that print up credit cards, withdrawing our moneys, buying only locally and spreading revolutionary memes.( Memes can change minds, alter behaviour, catalyze collective mind-shifts and transform cultures; a unit of information; a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, notion, philosophy of politics.)
Meet in small groups in local coffee shops’ plot audacious acts of civil/ political disobedience; slowing/ stopping traffic, liberating billboards, detonating homemade napalm bombs; set fires in bank vaults and burn the money; things that hurt their bottom line. Bolder actions come from every 0.001C rise in the global sea level and global rise in temperature…more defiant with every billion dollar Goldman Sachs bonus package for merely pushing paper around. Attack capitalism, not at officially sanctioned protests but like bees attacking a wounded beast with millions of incessant stings and keep escalating until our the costs of doing business as usual becomes impossible to bear. Assassinate bank managers; members of the boards, shoot the stock holders; go after the real holders of the wealth stolen from the people at large… Destroy the debt system and its moneys.
The next summit is a good time to start. They can have their conferences, the peoples of the world will have their revolution of everyday life.
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