History, economics, political science, and art history show that it is the hated “market” that liberated society, that freed artists from the tyranny of state dictation
Selling Out: An Artist Says @#!! Occupy, More Commodify!
I was deeply disappointed to see several farcical “artist” offshoots of the Occupy Wall Street movement such as Occupy Museums and Occupy Art. As an artist, and a person on the lower rungs of the class ladder, I am furious at the audacity of these self-serving freeloaders who spew viciousness, ignorance, and hatred and pretend it’s all about community. I am NOT the 99%- I am an individual human being. You cannot lump me in with the lowest common denominator clamouring for a return to the destructive systems of socialism or communism. You do not speak for me.
