Against the Institution: A Warning for ‘Occupy Wall Street’

Andrew Gavin Marshall
Infowars.com
October 5, 2011

The following first appeared on Andrew Gavin Marshall’s blog.

While I fully endorse the efforts and actions of the Occupy Wall Street protests, now emerging internationally, there are concerns which need to be addressed and kept in mind as the movement moves forward.

The process through which a potentially powerful movement may be co-opted and controlled is slight and subtle. If Occupy Wall Street hopes to strive for the 99%, it must not submit to the 1%, in any capacity.

The Occupy movement must prevent what happened to the Tea Party movement to happen to it. Whatever ideological stance you may have, the Tea Party movement started as a grass roots movement, largely a result of anti-Federal Reserve protests. They were quickly co-opted with philanthropic money and political party endorsements.

For the Occupy Movement to build up and become a true force for change, it must avoid and reject the organizational and financial ‘contributions’ of institutions: be they political parties, non-profits, or philanthropic foundations. The efforts are subtle, but effective: they seek to organize, professionalize, and institutionalize a movement, push forward the issues they desire, which render the movement useless for true liberation, as these are among the very institutions the movement should be geared against.

This is not simply about “Wall Street,” this is about POWER. Those who have power, and those who don’t. When those who have power offer a hand in your struggle, their other hand holds a dagger. Remain grassroots, remain decentralized, remain outside and away from party politics, remain away from financial dependence. Freedom is not merely in the aim, it’s in the action.

  • A d v e r t i s e m e n t

The true struggle is not left versus right, democrat versus republican, liberal versus conservative, or libertarian versus socialist. The true struggle is that of people against the institution: the State, the banks, the central banking system, the corporation, the international financial institutions, the military, the political parties, the mainstream media, philanthropic foundations, think tanks, university, education, psychiatry, the legal system, the church, et. al.

The transfer of power from one institution to another does not solve the crisis of our ‘institutional society,’ whereby a few have come to dominate so much, to concentrate so much power at the expense of everyone else having so little. True liberation will result only from opposition to ‘the institution’ as an entity. Placating power from one institution to another renders resistance ineffective. The power structures must be discredited, and power must be distributed to the people, through voluntary associations, communal groupings, and people-powered (and people-funded!) initiatives.

In order to survive as a movement, money will become a necessity. Do not turn to the non-profits and philanthropic foundations for support. The philanthropies, which fund and created the non-profits and NGOs, were themselves created to engage in ‘social engineering’: to ‘manufacture consent’ among the governed, and create consensus among the governors. The philanthropies (particularly those of Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller) fund social movements and protest organizations so as to steer them into directions which are safe for the elites. The philanthropies are themselves run by the elite, founded by bankers and industrialists striving to preserve their place at the top of the social structure in the midst of potentially revolutionary upheaval. As the president of the Ford Foundation once said, “Everything the foundation does is to make the world safe for capitalism.”

Money from philanthropies will organize the movement into a more professionalized entity, will direct its efforts around the promotion of legalistic reform, making slight changes to the system’s symptoms, promoting particular legislation, rallying around very specific issues removed from their global historical context. The effect is to turn anti-system revolutionaries into legalistic reformers. With such funding, movement organizers are drawn into the world of NGOs, international conferences, international institutions, aid agencies, and mainstream political participation. The leaders of the movement become professionalized and successful, both in prestige and finances. Thus, their own personal position becomes dependent upon promoting reform, not revolution; on maintaining the system (with minor changes to the aesthetic), not moving against it. The movement itself, then, would be institutionalized.

For the finances to grow without the threat of institutional dominance, the money must come from the people. A truly populist cause could be funded by the people. Keep the people in charge.

If we truly want freedom and liberation, we must begin to act free and liberated. If we want the ‘true liberation,’ we must understand the true system of power that confines, oppresses, segregates, exploits, impoverishes, and controls us. It is not a matter of the state or the banks or the corporations. It is a matter of the institution, itself. The structures of power must be struggled against so that we may come to liberate humanity from all that confines it, and experience what our true ‘human nature’ is.

If one studies mice in a maze, no matter for how long or what the maze is built of, looks like, feels like, you cannot deduce the nature of the mouse separate from that of the maze. Break down the maze and you may observe the true nature of the mouse. We have been living, always, within a maze. The walls are constructed as institutions which direct, steer, manipulate, define and segregate us from one another.

First we must tear down the barriers that bind us from ourselves, and then we may truly understand what it is to be human and free.






 
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22 Responses to “Against the Institution: A Warning for ‘Occupy Wall Street’”

  1. Ahhh, so well put.

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  4. HERE YALL GO !!!

    LET “THE INSTITUTION” TELL YOU ABOUT THEIR AGENDAS THEMSELVES !!!!

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  5. Would it make more sense to vote as a libertarian? We say we want freedom, but elect democrats and republicans who don’t have our best interest. What better way to show we want freedom than to join a party that stands for freedom.

  6. Alex should call to his new-york infowarriors to join the ccupyWallStreet movement with “Infowars.com” and “End the FED” Signs. To help this movement to stay focus on real issues.

    Alex should also call his new-york infowarriors and people already protesting at occupy wall-street, to move part of this huge protest towards the New-York Federal Reserve building, which is very close of wall-street building.

    Infowarriors can go in the street and influence current wall Street protester to go protest at the federal reserve building with them.

  7. I agree with the message, but how bout we go a step further? Instead of focusing on Revolution, how bout we focus on Evolution? Revolutions happen all the time, but never truly accomplish anything. People fall back into their stagnant routines. Different, not better. Personally, I’m against socialism, because I feel that it promotes dependency, which can never truly help mankind as a species. Yes, we must offer help when it is needed, but this help needs to be predicated on a demand for personal responsibility. God helps those who help themselves. If you aren’t willing to help yourself and you’re just looking for a bunch of free stuff, as a species, we really don’t need you to exist. Also, lets stop demanding things like free health care and higher education, because these systems are broken and worthless. Why demand worthless things? You want free health care and higher education? You can have them both for free right now, it’s called the Internet. Research diet, exercise and natural remedies, take the personal responsibility for your own health and most likely you won’t need health care. I haven’t been to the doctor’s in 10 years. Prevention is priceless. If however, you do this and something happens where you do need serious medical attention, then you know what, I’m sure as a society, somebody or group would volunteer to help you since you acted as a responsible human being and weren’t a complete useless burden on society all along…

  8. fucking well written and completely true, especially the final paragraphs

  9. This is about the nightly news, can anyone tell me how to spell Selly Costilles name, I have been wanting to look up stuff about him and I want to spell his name right when i talk about it.

    Now I watched Ted Gundersons video on the CIA, Satanism and human trafficking earlier, and that kind of shit really makes me wish this totally evil, satanic, disgusting, pedophile empire would go the way of Rome.

  10. These people aren’t protesting anything. They’re just a distraction.

    Most people didn’t notice today that while the media began reporting on the death of Steve Jobs Sarah Palin announced that she’s not running for office. She waited for a distraction because the truth is leaking out faster than it can be contained.

    Much like Obama catching Osama 3 days after releasing his long form birth certificate Palin was waiting for a big media event so that everyone would forget about her. So few know the truth. Search PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot and learn what the media cannot report on before it’s deleted by the Feds.

  11. . . . Robbed blind and half dead from moral cancer and industrial disease at the hands of the Global Banking Mafia, the Earthlings muster a last minute surge of adrenaline charged insight and wake up to the diabolical hidden agenda of the greedy bastards, mad scientists, evil geniuses and whack-job power freaks utilizing their fabricated fear and forces in an attempt to co-opt the planet for their own murderous intentions.

    It’s time to spin our caps around and dig in Humanity, It’s time to spit and swing for the fence America. This is our last ups. . . let’s make it count.

    excerpt from the nwosurvivalguide*com

    Because what you don’t know. . . is killing you.

  12. You can see the enemy in the middle east. In the west, you know there is an enemy, but it cannot be seen.

    • In the middle east we are basically chasing around CIA ghosts for 10 years.

  13. HAS ANYONE ELSE NOTICED THE NYPD ARE NOT WEARING HARDCORE MILITARY RIOT GEAR?

    SOMEONE OR SOMETHING IS DIRECTING THEM TO USE THE ‘OLD BEAT COP LOOK’ WHICH IS NOT THE NORM THESE DAYS.

    Deep thoughts from the heart of Tejas!

    Alex beware of the Houston Federal Reserve building meeting … a trap is being set for you and our brothers and sisters.

    • There’s only 12,000 people. The UK had 35,000 protesting against the conservative convention. It will grow. October 15th, Canada will join you.

  14. I will never stand in solidarity with socialists, anarchists, oligarchs….or labor unions.

    • Me either.

      • if we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.

    • Stand side by side with your fellow Americans and listen to their concerns. Don’t just reject a movement because you want things to go your way. You can’t win alone. Before you can iron out the details, and decide the limits of welfare and freedom, you need to remove the 100 year old dynasty of financial dictatorship.
      Socialists and anarchists might expect you to help a person in need, from your own free will. But they won’t take your money, give half of it to charity and donate the rest to manslaughter.

  15. Thank you for this! Finally someone on this website has some sense!! To turn this into a partisan issue would be to corrupt it, it’s a movement of the people – I would love to see all groups of people no matter what political affiliation join in. Any information w/any kind of partisan slant is diluted such as most of the articles I’ve been seeing on this site, don’t alienate yourselves or others because of partisan favoritism .. this is the most divisive tool that they have against us!

  16. when all the brokenhearted people living in the world agree, there will be an answer. let it be.

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