[lbo-talk] Occupying Wall Street

[Carrol Cox]

My preceding post on Lenin,  The Spontaneous, and Wall Stret Occupation 
was somewhat of a rough draft and I will be trying to give it more 
precision in future posts. I just wanted to note that the the last bit 
quoted from Lenin also foreshadowed today's events: the decision someone 
made to turn the cops loose on the protesters. That will go far towards 
providing follow-ups to this weeks protests with a more precise "goal": 
The Occupation is now a struggle for Free Speech, a protest against the 
ongoing attack on democracy in the U.S. over the last 40 years. That 
links the Wall Street Protesters to other actions around the nation. And 
we are now closer, but probably with a year or two to go, to get the 
"analysis" Doug wants. It will take not only a lot of  thinking (not 
cluttered with "criticism" of isolated events) but quite a bit more 
exploratory action such as we have been witnessing this weak. This is 
still sloppy. We will see.

Carrol

On 9/24/2011 3:58 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: [clip]