> obviously, graeber was talking about political society and so are the
> protesters
No, Graeber is also talking about economic society. Read his Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology.
> . the way labor unions run their political
> organizations couldn't run an economy either
And labor unions don't usually claim to prefigure a future economic system. But in any case, they're usually not run by OWS-style consensus, so the point is totally moot.
> I doubt Marx would have been deterred by some silly criticism such as
> "Oh goshes, Marxy boy, you don't have an alternative way to organize
> the economy in your political practice. Go back to the drawing board
Again, Marx embraced leaderships, elections, and party programs; he didn't claim to be building an anarchist future-society-in-miniature.
SA