For a movement that impacted the country both socially and politically, the Occupy movement began relatively modestly. According to Peter Katel of CQ Researcher, a group of 1,000 protesters set up shop in New York's Zuccotti Park in mid-September 2011. This group, motivated by the growing gap between the rich and middle classes, hoped that the protest's nonviolent actions could enlighten lawmakers and bring about economic change. The movement spread from New York to American cities. The driving force of the movement was the desire to change national politics, which favors the rich over the poor. There has also been strong pressure against the move. Many people (primarily conservatives) viewed the Occupy movement as an attempt to overthrow the American political system and impose a communist form of government in its place. Major newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times compared the occupy movement to the Soviet communist uprising. William F. Jasper, a writer for The New American, says: “Leading activists openly display their communist, Marxist, socialist, and anarchist affiliations and orientations. You would have to be totally blind and totally dishonest not to notice this. The point of Mr. Jasper's article was to show the contrast between tea parties who “paid for permits, police, security and bathroom porterage, and cleaned up after themselves; they didn’t make the taxpayers foot the bill,” and the occupy movement he described as a violent communist uprising determined to overthrow the government. Interestingly, members of the occupy movement used this Marxist label as a rallying point. This created a peculiar situation in which each side used the term communism in the middle of an article......similarities exist, when critically examining the differences it becomes quite difficult to classify the Occupy movement as a communist uprising. Carl Marx envisioned a revolution in which the oppressed lower class would be forced by economic devastation to overthrow the government and adopt a system in which everyone would have the ability to produce whatever they wanted. The occupation movement resembled Marx's dream in that it advocated equality between the rich and the poor. The Occupy movement, however, only pushed for reforms within the capitalist system to reduce corruption, thus separating it from Marx's idea of ​​a communist revolution. According to Tumino, capitalism, by nature, regardless of government control, will favor the upper class over workers. There can be no change in socio-economic stratification without completely eliminating capitalism. (Tumino)