Anti capitalists – what do they actually want?

**WageSlave1** · 4 July 2005, 16:29

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.

**DimPrawn** · 4 July 2005, 16:31

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.

**widgetdance** · 4 July 2005, 16:33

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.

**PRC1964** · 4 July 2005, 16:50

Lots of money.

Give them lots of money and they stop complaining.

**Lucifer Box** · 4 July 2005, 22:28

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?

**Alf W** · 4 July 2005, 22:36

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.

**AtW** · 4 July 2005, 22:43

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.

**Lucifer Box** · 4 July 2005, 22:55

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.

**stackpole** · 4 July 2005, 23:31

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.

Anti capitalists – what do they actually want?