Sometimes when you red bait, you get a fish that can bite you back…
Now I would say that this young woman isn’t the most articulate Marxist in the world, but given that she is being baited by a stooge trying to paint Occupy as full of inchoate hippies, she does a decent job:
Posted on December 15, 2011, in Left-turn and tagged red-baiting, young woman. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
The questioner is an Alex Jones conspiracy theorist, and I can think of a few ways to respond better, a la, the banks really want debt peonage and a return to feudalism, not a socialist regime. Banks and private property wouldn’t exist under socialism so for sheer self-preservation, one would expect them to totally avoid that.
Yes, I know, but her ripping him apart on the democracy question is crucial.