Probably Britain’s best rapper, Dan Bull, just released a track about Occupy Wallstreet:
To be honest, I’m not sure what to make of Occupy Wallstreet. I find their general message a bit unclear and, at best, not very definable. The broad message I’ve been hearing is “End Global Capitalism” which could mean a great number of things and doesn’t really offer any solutions of how stuff should be. The slightly more defined message I’ve heard “End Capitalism’s impact on politics”, I think I’d completely endorse.
In the UK, political parties are only just separated from big business (or big unions, who aren’t much better!), in the US, political parties are practically owned by big business. I can see how frustrating things are for Americans as a result of this.
Personally, I think, in the UK, we must investigate central government funding for electoral parties – much as is the case across much of Scandinavia – to combat voter apathy. A friend of mine, Jonathan Davis, recently wrote an article about this for The New Left Project that I think is well worth looking at.
What do you think?