>Occupy Sesame Street and the Teaching Presence of Rupert Murdoch and Neil
Bush
by NICHOLAS ROBERTS
The economic populists have become the dominant tendency at the occupations and one problem I have with this crowd is that its critique of the system is primarily distributional. They don't have much to say about the use-values of our capitalist culture -- although they do have a fair amount to say about the "corporate takeover" of "our democracy" (sic). Whatever their other weaknesses, the anarchists do have such a critique (if no realistic idea about how to fashion alternatives outside of micro- communities).
This protest you wrote about points to a nice antidote to all that. Although all the gabbers at Huffington Post typically associate neo-liberal school reform with the Republicans and Republicans only, and that Murdoch is the target of this demo gives them permission. Chances are a lot of them could care less about reading-centered pedagogy, also. That's a zeitgeist the occupations will do nothing to reverse.