Why did Occupy Wall Street fail? ‘Too many Indians, not enough chiefs’

by Austin Petersen

 

It’s the second anniversary since the Occupy Wall Street movement began. CNN Money held a panel featuring Mark Bray, author of the book Translating Anarchy who estimated that around 72% of the people he spoke to at OWS were anarchists. His definition of anarchist was that they rejected compromise with capitalism. While that may be what many socialists and communists believe, that certainly is not the technical definition. Anarchy simply means “without rulers”.

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Modern socialists pretend to be anarchists, but in reality what they are proposing is the opposite. Socialists and communists are proposing central control over the means of production. They want every action of the individual to be planned by the central planners. Your schooling would be planned, your exercise would be planned, your meals would be planned and all controlled by the state. That is not anarchy. That is simply violent communism repackaged as anarchy. Anarchy comes first, then comes central planning. Then dekulakization. 

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The anchor asks the panel why they think OWS failed, to which former Lehman Brothers VP Lawrence McDonald replies: “It was too many Indians, not enough Chiefs.”

Austin Petersen is a homegrown Missourian with a lifelong passion for liberty. He grew up on a horse farm in Peculiar, Missouri and went on to attend Missouri State University, graduating with a degree in the Fine Arts. After developing a career in media in both New York City and Washington, D.C., he returned to Kansas City, MO, the city he now calls home. In 2016, Petersen appeared on the national stage as a candidate for president of the United States. He took second place in the crowded Libertarian primary behind Governor Gary Johnson and ahead of cyber security maverick John McAfee. During his campaign, Petersen earned many high-profile conservative endorsements, including Mary Matalin, Erick Erickson and Leon Wolf of RedState.com. Petersen also brings decades of professional experience in a wide variety of fields, from content production and media to business and political activism. He is the owner and chief executive of Stonegait LLC, a consulting firm specializing in photo and video services. He was also the director of production at FreedomWorks and an associate producer for Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show “Freedom Watch” on the Fox Business Network. Additionally, Petersen has a national following as a commentator and professional pundit. He is the founder of The Libertarian Republic, a powerful online news source for the public that receives an average of 1 million unique visits monthly and whose podcast, The Freedom Report, receives an average of one million monthly downloads. He is also a frequent contributor on television, appearing on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC and on dozens of local radio shows.

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