[lbo-talk] occupation and situationists was Re: enemy's turf

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Fri Oct 28 07:59:25 PDT 2011


On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:41:55 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> How would the bottom 40% of the income distribution,
> Walmart's core customer base, feel about [occupy Walmart]?

Only one way to find out, eh?

Doug's implicit line of argument here, I think, falls into the fear-of-backlash category, which is hardly ever, if ever, a sound strategic consideration.

OWS is quite unusual in having widespread public support, which is wonderful but atypical. More usually, any time you have a march or a sit-in you piss a lot of people off. What inferences do we draw?

Justify your answer, as a professor would helpfully remark in setting an exam.

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