The Occupy Movement in my city devolved into a homeless encampment in the middle of downtown and lasted for weeks. There were meetings where occupiers practiced democratic decentralism: One group wanted to protest a local bank for investing in logging, another group wanted to do something else, and they all went off and did their thing. That's as far as I could tell. I was a visitor and not a participant. But I watched this protest go on until the pointlessness of the action was apparent to everyone. There was little protest when the city decided to clean out the encampment.
The problems with Occupy were similar to the other half-dozen failed movements in the US this century: The movement was spontaneous without effective political organization, unity, and discipline. Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42149): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42149 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119906876/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
