> Well, of course! I don't expect OWS to achieve many of its chosen
> goals, whatever they are, in the short term, any more than the Seattle
> generation of radicals did. Frankly, I don't see immediate policy
> changes as the proper concern of these kinds of mobilizations. If
> conscious tinkering with the mechanisms of power were the goal, they -
> and we - certainly picked a funny way to go about it. Long-term
> influence is another question, as David Graeber has noted
So short-term influence won't happen, you say. We should hope for "long-term influence." But how do you get "long-term influence" if you oppose on principle building permanent organizations?
SA