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

[dndlllio at aol.com]

I was thinking that "one demand"might be derived from the "plausible 
promise" concept developed by Eric Raymond as the key tactic in the 
"Bazaar" model of organizing communities of software developers, as it 
has since been re-iterated in a general model of online community 
organizing by Clay Shirky, and then in the model of guerrilla-warfare 
"open source insurgency" theorizing by John Robb.

On 9/18/11 6:54 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Are you thinking of the single-issue that the SWP insisted on in 
> anti-war demos? The intention behind that was to block political 
> development outside the reach of the SWP. That isn't quite the same as 
> "one demand." Or is it another version of the "Non-negotiable" demand? 
> That was common in the Black student movements.
>
> Carrol
>
> On 9/18/2011 3:21 PM, dndlllio at aol.com wrote:
>> Does anyone know the origin of the "one demand" phrase/tactic? The
>> immediate antecedent is the depose-Mubarek campaign, but the language
>> has been in use longer.
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