An Agenda for Occupy Wall Street

Oct 14, 2011 | Class Issues, Democrats, Economic Policy, Liberalism, Plutocracy, Political Ideologies, Political Parties, President Obama

Published: The Newark Star-Ledger (October 14, 2011)

The pundits are claiming that Occupy Wall Street lacks a coherent agenda. I have one for them that can be summed up in two words: Rebuild America.

Although Occupy Wall Street’s anger has been targeted at the American plutocracy (a term best defined by Theodore Roosevelt as “government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the ‘money touch,’ but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers”), it would be a mistake to assume, as many right-wingers have done, that this movement is driven by a desire to wage war against a particular class.... Read Original Article