Now, the Occupy Wallstreet Jacobins have produced a set of demands for the complete destruction of the present "system" and the replacement of that social order by a radically different conception of the human condition and the relationship between individual and individual, and the individual and the state. This makes for fascinating reading. I will use bold face type to emphasize the more salient aspects of the OWJ's mentality and thinking on these issues.
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending “Freetrade” by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr.
Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors.
Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment.
Demand four: Free college education.
Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand.
Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now.
Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America’s nuclear power plants.
Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment.
Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live.
Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system.
Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the “Books.” World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the “Books.” And I don’t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period.
Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies.
Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.
This seemingly odd, yet, to those with a strong education and background knowledge regarding the intellectual and social history of these ideas and of the Left as a manner of looking at the world, spicy, eclectic mix of socialism, fascism, and anarchism makes perfect sense as each of these central leftist theories/mental sets regarding the nature of the human condition has, despite those places where its doctrines diverges as to emphasis and , have at their core the same hatred of liberal democracy, economic liberty, property rights, the individual, the concept of unalienable rights (and associated responsibilities), and the matrix of traditional concepts (and boundaries) encompassing traditional ideals of marriage, family, and human sexuality, that forms the ideological nucleus, to one degree or another, of the entire Left as a world view, regardless of specific doctrinal emphasis or de-emphasis.