Two guests on this evening's Ed Show on MSNBC revealed what lies just below the surface for many in the current protest movement: opposition to capitalism.

First up was Rosa Clemente, a "hip hop activist" and 2008 Green Party VP candidate: "Capitalism, I think that is the institution all over this country. It is really the oppressive force." Next, Georgetown Prof. Marcia Chatelain, who said that the current moment has revealed "an incredible critique of capitalism that it isn't just police brutality but the way people are forced to live." Your $40,000/year tuition at work!

You'll note that Clemente casts the police as the enforcers of the capitalist class system. And Chatelain, whom Michael Eric Dyson, sitting in for Schultz, introduced as "one of the the leading historians" of her generation, "can't wait" for her students to join her in writing a critique of capitalism. I bet.

Note also that Clemente mentioned that she teaches in the California State University system.