Anti capitalists – what do they actually want?

Re: Forgot to mention...

Being an open minded chap – like wot I am – I’ve done a bit of research and found out what they want.

We believe that if our planet is to survive the huge problems we face, the disempowerment of the majority of people, the dire poverty in the global south, climate change - if we are to survive this we need a fundamental change.

What we'll need to do is to fundamentally reorganise things.

Our vision is of a society that is run from the bottom up with grassroots control in all areas.

How this can be achieved by dressing up as clowns and throwing chairs at the police is not explained. You would think it would dawn on them that another pressure group in Edinburgh this week has already achieved much more by simply recruiting pop stars to their cause. If the anti-capitalists had a real desire for change they would do the same thing.

On the evidence so far, they’re not even very good at throwing chairs at the police

Forgot to mention...

...that the woman I mentioned in my previous post on this thread left the client to take up a permie role in an organisation championing business.
When I pointed this out, she tried to defend it by claiming it wasn't capitalism.

The majority of these so-called protesters are just immature kids playing politics without understanding how things really work. Most of them have too much free time and not enough responsibility.

This would never have happened under Wellington!

Re: I'll tell you what this is about

Its simple - they want whatever they havent been able to earn for themselves.

I'll tell you what this is about

They don't understand how an economy works.

They are exactly like kids bullying the school swots.

Re: what they want

Come on, this is just the usual student 'rite of passage' dust up with the Pigs. We've all been there haven't we?

Well, yes, but that bloke did look at me funny. He was asking for it.

what they want

> Can anyone skilled in pseudo management speak decipher their message?

In a nut shell they want to take power from hands of multinational corporations and return it back to people -- corporations have way too high influence at the moment.

I am pro-market economy, however I am against having big established companies using their influence to avoid competition either by making laws that suit them most or just using their money to sue competitors to hell.

Come on, this is just the usual student 'rite of passage' dust up with the Pigs. We've all been there haven't we? Aah those sweet Poll Tax riot days.

I remember reading an amusing story about one of the demonstrators outside Huntington Life Sciences. She had a very severe asthma attack while picketing the site - we are talking unable to breathe, danger of death stuff. One of the coppers policing the demo helped her with her inhaler - turned out the drug was developed in a joint research project between HLS and a pharma co. Ironic, huh?

Lots of money.

Give them lots of money and they stop complaining.

Anti capitalists – what do they actually want?

Apart from a smack in the mouth you mean?

Considering most of them are either living off Daddy and so are intrinsically capitalist, or are dependant on the capitalist markets to buy their drugs, or dependant on capitalist overspill in the form of benefits I think they have got some fookin nerve!

3rd world goods at 3rd world prices.

They are angry at the evil capitalist faceless profit machines that are blighting the world and creating poverty, deforestation and debt. Angry angry. God they are angry.

HTH.

I worked with one such type a few years back. She came from a middle class family and protesting was a bit of an adventure for her. It didn't really matter what the cause was, she would jump on the bandwagon.

One afternoon, a large protest marched past the office, and she became very excited and told me she was going to join in -without even knowing the cause. She only stopped when I told her it was the pro hunt rally.

These Anti Capitalists. Does anyone know what it is they are actually demonstrating for (or against) in Edinburgh? Apparently they want to

"expresses our resistance in work, out of work or wherever we live."

But what does that mean? Clearly they don’t work, or they wouldn’t be in Edinburgh on a weekday. And by the sound of the guy interviewed on the radio this morning they don’t have to work. Just live off daddy’s trust fund.

Can anyone skilled in pseudo management speak decipher their message?

Thanks.