DH wrote: "Occupiers: I love you, I’m glad you’re there, the people I talked to were inspiring—but you really have to move beyond this. Neoliberalism couldn’t ask for a less threatening kind of dissent."
FM: And we love you too, Doug but there are plenty of people participating in OSW that are from the kind of organizations with a central leadership and an agenda that Jodi Dean is describing. The movement's lack of specific demands allows that participation to happen. I like the Badiou/Zizek/Dean critique but until it starts to engage with the power that it is accusing everyone else of refusing to touch then it is just another critique among thousands. Perhaps the next step in the critique is to begin asking questions about will make it more of a galvanizing force than the hundreds of socialist, communist, trotskyite hybrids already on the ground that are, frankly, wandering in the wilderness?