Andrew Breitbart's Eruption at Occupy

Andrew Breibart exploded in a volcanic like eruption Friday evening when he encountered Occupy Protesters outside the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, scene of the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, in Washington, DC.   As luck would have it, Emily Crocket, representing Campus Progress, found herself in a position to record the tirade that has gone the viral route on the Internet.  The Washington Times Columnist, Andrew Breibart verbally accosted the Occupy protesters as he repeatedly screamed at the top of his lungs "Behave yourself, behave yourself."  But that's not all.  He went on to describe the Occupy contingent as "freaks and animals." Before he was ushered away, he suggested that the Occupy movement "Stop raping people."  But why was Andrew Breibart, the astute conservative pundit, so disruptive that he needed to be led away by police into the hotel?  What did he understand?

The answer to this question is this: The Occupy movement reveals the class fault lines in America that the ruling elites continually try to prevent the working class from seeing.  The contradiction between the capitalist class and the working class, that must sell its labor in the labor market, has grown to the point of tectonic rupture.  The Occupy movement, much like an impending tidal wave, threatens the very existence of neoliberal capitalism.  Breibart gets this. 

The Occupy forces are not "behaving" compliantly.  They don't buy the lies that spew forth continually from the corporate controlled media.  Marx saw one primary contradiction within capitalism.  It is the necessary contradiction without which capitalism cannot continue.  This is the contradiction between the capitalist class and the people who actually create the wealth, the laboring class.  The media and the corporate government nexus seeks to create a docile working class.  Here is a question: The working class are taxed on their wage labor at rates of 30% or more.  The finance capitalists are taxed at just 15%  on their capital gains.  Why is this just fine?  How does this inequity persist?  Answer: The President is merely a place holder for the One Per Cent. He would be removed if he did not fulfill this function.  Just consider his economic advisers.  They represent the very core of the finance capitalists who provoked the current depression resulting in the current redistribution of wealth from the 99% to the 1 %.  When the banks fail, who pays?  Ask the Greek working class.  The members of Congress and the Supreme Court justices represent the ruling elites.  The 1%.  Citizens United merely reinforces the ruling elites hold upon the political process.  And the Occupy has a message.  It is this.  It is the utterly complete disparity between the 1% and the rest of us; it is the great contradiction that renders our economic system unstable.  It is the disparity between private property and the commons.