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The guy who initiated Perestroika in the Soviet Union commented on Occupy Wall Street:

"Russia - Former Premier Mikhail Gorbachev compared it to the perestroika period and the collapse of a superpower, calling the protests justified. He said Americans should put their own house in order before attempting to do such with other countries."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street#International_reaction

Except there is no other system that has already been tried in other countries for us to turn to.

>>2
TINA (there is no alternative) Principle.  People who prefer (benefit from) capitalism use TINA to justify the continuation of the status quo.

We see that Capitalism has run its course.  It sucks.  It's a cancer. However, we are stuck with it until someone comes up with a workable alternative.  And that will be a while as the benficiaries of the status quo (the 1%) use their dominant power to destroy any attempt at creating an alternative(bombing, regime change, economic embargo, propaganda war, etc.)

I hope the OWS folks understand this, but I am afraid they will soon be forgotten just like the G20/anti-Globalization and anti-Iraq war protests are forgotten.

Interestingly, just read somewhere that the top Chinese leaders think Gorbachev is an idiot for allowing the USSR to fall apart and for the Communist Party to lose power.  Though who knows what Putin's plan is.  Maybe he is trying to follow the China path.

>>3
Except I didn't say "alternative", I said "other system that has already been tried in other countries".

It's this kind of non-answer that is why there will never be a revolution, bitching on capitalism is not a solution.

>>5
Sorry, I did not pay attention.  Are you suggesting we should turn to something that has NOT been tried in other countries yet? That sounds interesting. An what would that new thing be?

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The problem isn't that capitalism is bad or that a form of socialism is better; the problem is people believe they can achieve economic perfection, believe they have to accept systemic imperfection, or they fear that they missed the boat somewhere else.  This mindset produces the irregular opinions whose sum-total is the promotion of economic instability and the motivation to consider near-impossible gains to justify ones choices.  Capitalism's major failing is that it acknowledges these realistic faults and, rather than trying to mitigate them away by making believe they don't exist, and making believe that people don't exist, also acknowledges the average mindset is "(individual) striving to do better."  The problem is impersonality.

The pathos of economy has only ever been achieved after one has the perception that they have their own applecart in order, bar the infrequent suicidally generous.  One thing should be clear: no economic system that promises "fairness" and "equality" is ever going to deliver it, no matter how lucrative it sounds, because it bases its success on the same thing that it tries to defeat.  The consolidation of power.  Profit of this manner has never happened in any but the most primitive existences.