And following the links takes us to Charles Gasparino, at New York Post, "New York’s Marxist Epicenter":
The standard portrayal of the Wall Street protesters goes something like this: Ragtag group of unemployed young adults, venting often incoherent but overall legitimate populist outrage about economic inequality. But go down to the movement’s headquarters, as I did this past weekend, and you see something far different.But, of course, these aren't REAL communists, or anything. Nothing to see here. Move along.
It’s not just that knowledge of their “oppressors” -- the evil bankers -- is pretty thin, or that many of them are clearly college kids with nothing better to do than embrace the radical chic of “a cause.” I found a unifying and increasingly coherent ideology emerging among the protesters, which at its core has less to do with the evils of the banking business and more about the evils of capitalism -- and the need for a socialist revolution.
BONUS IMAGINARY COMMUNISTS!! From Kevin Williamson, "‘Follow the Red Flag!’" And, yawn, more here: "Communist Marching with #OccupyChicago Identified as OFA Organizer for President Obama."
