[lbo-talk] Occupy Wall Street on 9/17/2011

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Mon Sep 12 08:56:52 PDT 2011


On 9/12/2011 10:19 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:

On Sep 12, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Julio Huato wrote: US Day of Rage

Doug: Are they kidding? Naming it after the Weathermen disaster of 1969? Fred Hampton, dissociating the BPP from that lunacy, said: "We do not support people who are anarchistic, opportunistic, adventuristic, and Custeristic."

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Not much to add to Doug's excellent summary

One observation thought. For 40 years almost anyone onthe left with any political sense has been (correctly) dissing the Weatherman trash. That criticism did _nothing_ to prevent the reappearance of the same kind of trash! It is an example of the futility of negative criticism.

This is the first I have heard of any of this. Are there tendencies in the "Occupy Wall Street" idea that are serious rather than Weather wantabees?

Carrol



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