"Pay attention to meeeeeeee!!"
Another Sixties radical speaks up. She's the one who wanted to cause the revolution by overloading the Welfare rolls until the system collapsed. Now she has new ideas, demonstrating that she really, really does not understand the American psyche. |
During the last 4 to 6 weeks a major Leftist, Francis Fox Piven has been calling the unemployed young people to violent action, like that in Europe...
| Wants to relive the palmy days of her youth, does she? "To the barricades, brothers and sisters, to the barricades!" |
[W]orkers must realize that others have put them in their current, uneasy situation: "[T]he out-of-work have to stop blaming themselves for their hard times and turn their anger on the bosses, the bureaucrats or the politicians who are in fact responsible."
| Punish bad bosses by giving your labour to a more worthy one -- even if it is yourself, punish the bureaucrats by downsizing them and reducing their pay and benefits, punish the politicians by voting them out of office, punish the unions by giving up your membership. (Ms Piven forgot to mention the unions in her little rant. Clearly she needs to look more carefully at her factors.) |
Only then, once their rage has been properly stoked, can the angry take action.
| Having a little trouble getting the stoking going, my dear? I believe there are medicines for that, nowadays. |
And when they do, she says, the "protesters need targets."
| She's like an ant preserved in amber, poor thing. Once she was a slip of a girl, leading the charge of her age-mates. Now she's that friend of Grandma's, the one who dribbles her tea. |
What she is calling for is nothing less than the chaos and violence engulfing Europe," writes Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Ron Radosh on his blog. "Disgruntled leftist unionists, students who expect an education without cost, and citizens of social-democratic states cannot accept that the old terms of the social contract they thought would last forever have worn out their welcome. The European welfare-state governments can no longer function with the kind of social programs that now far exceed their nation's budgets and hence are moving their countries to the precipice of total collapse."
But violence has always been Piven's preferred method of collapse. In 2004, she admitted as much, saying that violence is condoned as long as it is part of a grand plan... |