We need the Occupy movement

I admit I haven't been able to do much to support the Occupy movement. I went down to Occupy DC some weeks back, but couldn't stay long, because of my smoke allergy. I haven't returned because of that and other health issues.

We need to point out the injustices of capitalism - and the structural problems in capitalism - and start creating something better than capitalism. We need this because capitalism demands constant growth, while survival demands sustainability. We need alternatives which meet people's needs instead of paying profiteers' demands. I think these alternatives need to be less centralized and more voluntary than the present order. In this sense, even if people choose communism over, say, mutualism, it would be more free [market] than capitalism ever was.

But right now there are people trying to destroy the Occupy movement, and it's depressing to face all the disinformation. and see the violence against the movement, and see the victim-blaming. So when the police attack protests, the beaten-up protesters get defamed as "violent" "mobs."

And there are people trying to co-opt the Occupy movement, to marginalize anarchist and other radical contributions, to support kleptocracy/capitalism, to propose specific reforms that will ameliorate the symptoms without treating their causes, to turn the Occupy movement into an arm of the Democratic Party, and so on.

Honor kills

Honor, gentility, and chivalry are the internal customs of ruling elites.

And these all come down to the willingness to kill to preserve their own status and each others. In America, the slave power placed great pride in its gentility, and chivalry, and killed for its honor. And when the ruling class was divided, Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner into a coma to defend his honor and the power of the slaveholders. It is originally rooted in the needs of warriors and mercenaries - why else is it called chivalry and gentility? why else does it value oaths so highly, revenge so highly, gender so highly? - loyalty to one another, their commander, and their paymaster.