I'll tip my own hand and say the way that something happens is if this thing grows like Topsy (yes, I'm old) more or less on its own terms, and at some point electoral candidates start echoing in some form or another and the political system reacts by doing something useful.
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 3, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
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> > Impatient much? As you've astutely pointed out many times, the last 30
> > years have been a time of extreme depoliticization and demobilization
> > in the US. Do you really expect that to be overcome in a couple of
> > weeks, especially since the huge majority of the actors have lived
> > their entire lives under said conditions?
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> I'm not expecting it to leap fully formed from Zuccotti Park, or even the
> head of David Graeber. But I wish people would stop throwing around this
> empty phrase. They're not doing any such thing.
>
> Doug
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