[lbo-talk] How the Black Bloc Occupied Oakland

[Carrol Cox]

It seems to me that the Occupy explosion is going down with as much dignity
as could be expected of any insurrection ('real' or 'virtual'). As I've said
before, they had been victorious by the first few weeks: victory being the
revival of left hopes and the transformation of national discourse which
they had brought about. It now remains in the next year or two for the
elements of a left in local regions to organize themselves to develop on the
new terrain that OWS has created.

No need for weeping or childish complaints about this or that 'cause' for a
non-existent defeat. Any possible complaint of that sort is childish in that
like an infant with a skinned knee, they have reduced the world to
irrelevant pimples.

Carroil

Carrol