Apologies for posting here (have a bad history w/ Empyre)- a few thoughts -
Asking if resilence is the new resistance is already buying into corporate sloganeerig; I worry about that. Is X the new Y is a kind of Wired mag slogan-op and perhaps tends to derail things.
I also wonder about the (metaphoric) mirror-neuron effect: one might consider violent government/governing forces themselves as occupiers; they're certainly resilient; they might well see themselves as revolutionary (don't forget the Revolutionary Guard); they're incredibly network; they resist.
Who are the Occupiers? The 'real' Occupiers? The word here seems to be losing meaning (if not gaining ground!) by the second -
In the USA which is all I can speak about (and not intelligently), at the same time OWS was @ Zucotti, Newt Gingrich called for a reinstallment of child labor, racism was and is violently on the increase, and Republican rhetoric was and is increasingly violent and deliberately ignorant as well. Reams were and are written about OWS, but if we don't have concrete resistance, we're going to see Republican sweeps that will finish whatever might be liberal or open about the US. In other words, no matter what we feel about Obama and the Democrats, we'd better the hell get out the vote; things can get much much worse.
I worry phrases like "general assembly" and "world revolution" will end up paralleling the kind of Leftist thought swept under at the end of the Weimar Republic.
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