{"id":341673,"date":"2017-12-30T07:35:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T06:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/against-identitarian-and-generational-divide-and-rule\/"},"modified":"2017-12-30T07:35:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T06:35:03","slug":"against-identitarian-and-generational-divide-and-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/against-identitarian-and-generational-divide-and-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Against Identitarian and Generational Divide and Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_98613\" style=\"max-width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98613\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-28-at-10.03.14-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"341\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Timothy Krause | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Occupy Wall Street movement that spread across the country six-plus years ago lacked proper organization and strategy, but it deserves credit for having the right enemy \u2013 the corporate and financial ruling class.\u00a0 The same can be said to no small degree about the sadly Democratic Party-captive Bernie Sanders campaign, which targeted \u201cthe billionaire class\u201d as the main culprit behind the miseries of life in the brutally class-disparate United States. Both populist phenomena \u2013 Occupy and the Sanders \u201cmovement\u201d \u2013 failed to build lasting people\u2019s organizations and failed to properly situate the \u201cOne Percent\u201d\/\u201cBillionaire Class\u201d within the specific historical contexts of capitalist class rule and capitalism\u2019s \u201cevil twin\u201d imperialism. Neither offered anything like a revolutionary alternative to the nation\u2019s unelected and interrelated dictatorships of wealth and empire. Still, both demonstrated a reasonable opening understanding of who calls the shots under what Noam Chomsky is right to sardonically call \u201creally existing [U.S.] capitalist democracy, or RECD, pronounced as \u2018wrecked\u2019\u201d: the U.S. corporate and financial oligarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Such basic and sound and basic grasp of class reality is sadly missing on much what passes for a Left in the U.S. today. That \u201cleft\u201d focuses instead on oppressions and identities of race, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, religion\/irreligion, immigration status,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/12\/29\/against-identitarian-and-generational-divide-and-rule\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Timothy Krause | CC BY 2.0 The Occupy Wall Street movement that spread across the country six-plus years ago lacked proper organization and strategy, but it deserves credit for having the right enemy \u2013 the corporate and financial ruling class.\u00a0 The same can be said to no small degree about the sadly Democratic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}