[lbo-talk] The "Liberty Square Blueprint"

shag carpet bomb shag at cleandraws.com
Fri Oct 21 10:06:37 PDT 2011


Is this what ended up coming out of the consensus of the demands working group. Or is it just what this particular obstructionist group (described by Mike in my previous post) wants? It's hard to tell.

i notice at the bottom they are using voting:

"We will create a reddit-based forum online to elicit ideas for amendments and to vote on those ideas for adoption. In order to propose an amendment, a forum user must first vote on at least one popular and two random ideas from the forum. Users may post and vote with a public identity, masked identity, or anonymously. A small fraction of the most popular posts, based on votes, will be presented to the General Assembly, where they will be officially considered as amendments or edits to the current version."

so much for voting? LOL


> So the anarchist types who have been running the show behind the
> scenes and actively disrupting the meetings of the working group
> crafting the jobs for all demand (so much for leaderlessness and
> self-organization) have finally unveiled their Liberty Square
> Blueprint - and it is utter rubbish. Not a single word about the tens
> of millions of unemployed and underemployed, the tens of millions
> without health insurance, and the tens of millions in poverty.
> Instead, we read about bartering, urban farming, and
> charities. Amazing.
>  
> Here's the link:
> http://www.freenetworkmovement.org/commons/index.php?title=Liberty_Square_Blueprint
>  
> The only good thing about this is that its obvious limitations could
> create an opening for socialists to contend for a greater degree of
> political and ideological influence within the movement and raise
> demands that might actually resonate with a broadly-based
> constituency.
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