[lbo-talk] My visit to the Wall Street occupiers

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Wed Sep 28 11:25:06 PDT 2011


On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:51:23 -0500 Barry Brooks <durable at earthlink.net> wrote:


> Rebels without a plan will tear things up without
> any hope of making things better.

But what other kind of rebels are there? Did the sansculottes who stormed the Bastille have a plan, in any useful sense of that word?


> I you don't like my plan maybe you
> could offer a better one. Did you see it at the
> bottom of my post?

It was a lovely plan and I don't have a word to say against it. However, insisting on 'planned' insurrections amounts to insisting on the impossible.

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