http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/opinion/the-milquetoast-radicals.html?hp

It appears that David Brooks in his latest essay titled ‘The Milquetoast Radicals’ has let slip his carefully maintained  intellectual poise, his Platonically inflected reductionism, in favor of a hysterical rhetorical screech, as if the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators had committed a heresy in the Temple of Capital. He chatters on about ‘reform’ and wasted time when he in fact means the final destruction of what is left of the New Deal. He argues that the 99% believe themselves to be a political elect. Let us not even raise the idea that Mr. Brooks has an equally high-faultin’ sense of himself, as thinker and civic actor!  And, of course, as a good Conservative Intellectual would, he argues that the sin of anti-capitalism is rampant in this nascent movement, which has hardly had time to formulate a coherent ideology, if it will, ever. That question remains tantalizingly indeterminate at this moment in historical time. So,’ they have no plan’ seems a bit premature, except that it fits quite nicely as the foundational position of a Conservative Legitimist political stance: as a benchmark of ideological maturity and a handy cudgel with which to beat  the heretics into submission, or simply to murder this inchoate political being in its’ cradle.

Almost Marx