> Basically, they're afraid that it won't be focused and coordinated; less
> impact.
You are more generous than I am. I'd say the open-endedness and out-of-controlness itself produces anxieties, which informs their thinking as much as the worry about effectiveness. There's an unspoken conservatism at the foundation of these types of critiques, seen in, among other ways, Proyect's need to predict the occupations' ephemerality to show what's wrong with them.
> So, the lack of demands thing isn't so much an issue of how to support and
> sustain growth, but lack of demands means that it probably won't grow into a
> mechanism for expanding the state as state-leaning socialists and welfare
> liberals would like?
Yes, I think that's right. It's a very strange view of politics though, pretty bloodless and technocratic.