The Occupy Movement is about "going on strike" against this "fiendish, rigged system"

This is brilliant. It captures the Occupy Movement perfectly — what it's about, what it "wants," and why people on the left and the right, each for different reasons, have been perplexed by it.
Matt Taibbi, writing in Rolling Stone, starts with this admission:

I have a confession to make. At first, I misunderstood Occupy Wall Street. ... I loved the energy and was amazed by the obvious organic appeal of the movement, the way it was growing on its own. But my initial impression was that it would not be taken very seriously by the Citibanks and Goldman Sachs of the world.

Then he saw the light ...

But I'm beginning to see another angle. Occupy Wall Street was always about something much bigger than a movement against big banks and modern finance.

It's about providing a forum for people to show how tired they are not just of Wall Street, but everything. This is a visceral, impassioned, deep-seated rejection of the entire direction of our society, a refusal to take even one more step forward into the shallow commercial abyss of phoniness, short-term calculation, withered idealism and intellectual bankruptcy that American mass society has become.

If there is such a thing as going on strike from one's own culture, this is it. And by being so broad in scope and so elemental in its motivation, it's flown over the heads of many on both the right and the left. ...

People want out of this fiendish system, rigged to inexorably circumvent every hope we have for a more balanced world. They want major changes. ... It's about dropping out ... and trying something new, the same way that the civil rights movement of the 1960s strived to create a "beloved community" free of racial segregation.

The rest of the article details those reactions, left and right, and then describes in more detail (and classic Taibbi prose) the deadening soullessness of a life lived to feed bankers' endless need for endless money.

Of special note is his discussion of the role of the NYPD (and other cop guardians). He flatly states that it's clear from their behavior who they work for, and tells them what they should be doing instead (no, not that). I'll let you find that part for yourself.

All in all, a very smart piece, and very much worth your time.