[lbo-talk] News from the Wall St protests?

[Carrol Cox]

Probably, from descriptions on this list, it had more analysis, more 
definite goals, more organization than is usually the case this early in 
the development of a movement. All of those come later. To sneer at 
sloppy beginnings is to give up on anything better ever coming along. 
And analysis of what? All this fuss about just one event is bizarre.

Carrol

The goals of such demos are always the same: send people home excited 
enough to work more enthusiastically.  It will be a matter of months or 
years before "goals" is particularly significant. Why in the world would 
goals make any difference now?

On 9/18/2011 4:50 PM, Ferenc Molnar wrote:
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> DH wrote: "no goals, no organization, no analysis".
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> FM: I hear you, but if there is some incipient left organization on the horizon with a disciplined party and a focused agenda how does it begin to influence these kids? At least the fringe orgs are down there proselytizing. What was interesting about the gathering yesterday was that it had a lot of non-left representation. I'm not sure if that bodes well for the future. If we are going to start that shiny new communist party that Zizek is stumping for then what is everyone waiting for? Tenure? 		 	   		
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