Occupied with Conspiracies? The Occupy Movement, Populist Anti-Elitism and the Conspiracy Theorists
Submitted on December 14, 2011
By Spencer Sunshine - Znet
All progressive social movements have dark sides, but some are more prone to them than others. Occupy Wall Street and its spin-offs, with their populist, anti-elitist discourse (“We Are the 99%”) and focus on finance capital, have already attracted all kinds of unsavory friends: anti-semites, David Duke and White Nationalists, Oath Keepers, Tea Partiers, and followers of David Icke, Lyndon Larouche, and the Zeitgeist movement...
