Which suggests to me, as I said, that the know the demands won't be met, but they are going to have a constitutional convention in Philly anyway, push a national conversation about them, and generate a fund raising effort to start a third party.
I have no clue what you guys are despairing over this supposed lack of interest in electoral politics and/or being co-opted by the Democrats.
not that I think that this is revolution. As i said, it's jsut the birth of a third party. ho hum, iyam.
But there are a lot of people here who want a party, want change through electoral means, prefer incrementalism. I don't understand the despair.
> Yes, I think people are confusing an attempt to administer the state
> with extra-parliamentary efforts to extract concessions. Matters
> aren't
> helped by the efforts of some, like ThinkProgress or the Roosevelt
> Institute, to actually turn OWS into a Democratic electoral vehicle.
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> wrote:
>
>> That's what I was told by someone participating in the process.
>>
>> I don't see how this set of demands marks a focus on electoral
>> politics,
>> except to the extent that they would have to be enacted by elected
>> officials. But if that's off limits, I fucking give up.
>>
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