What The Occupation Movement and Labor Have In Common

Capital is no more human than are corporations. To grant capital a right that by its nature it does not deserve is as foolish as regarding a corporation as a citizen with the rights that citizens are guaranteed by the United States Constitution. A recognition of the inhumanity of capital and its instrument - the corporation - is what labor and the October protest movement has in common. 

When labor leaders deride anti-corporate protesters for their youth, their apparel, or their manner of expressing themselves, they betray the interests of their members and followers. 

When youthful demonstrators deprecate unions as corrupt-by-nature, when they disparage working class accents as the emblem of the outmoded, when they imbibe the sweet poison of anti-union corporate propaganda, they betray the tradition that blossomed in the heady days of the New Deal.

Americans who sell their labor to employers are in the working class, and their bedrock interest is a working class interest. Americans who live on the returns of capital have the appropriate loyalties.