Occupy Wall Street

what went right?
what went wrong?

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It showed that there needs to be a coherent central leadership group to direct leftist movements to actually accomplish anything.

These four files will sum it up. (1/2)

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When occupy returns in a different form. I really hope identity politics will be warned against from the very beginning.

If leftypol was to do one thing throughout its existence, it's to make sure this happens.
Even loading onto your phone and showing people could help. But we need to make plans sooner rather than later.

I feel like fucking strangling these people, god-fucking-dammit

Next time make sure you do, you may just save the world!

I don't even think that the idpol crowd get much leverage over everyone alone with this system, given that there are just as many people from minorities on the revolutionary socialist left in my experience. the problem is with the context of identity politics and the anti-democratic practices it encourages, like silencing anyone who isn't part of their minority-chic group as either being a white guy or being a minority who has 'internalized oppression'.

That's exactly what happens in the video fam, complete with proto-fucking white maleism.

also the democrats were insufferable at occupy in a lot of cities. they were very condescending to socialists and anarchists.

most of them are white women from middle-upper families feeling 'offended' on other people's behalves

this shit is retarded. i hate idpol.

Pic 1 made me feel for the hippie, they might be spiritualists and sometimes a bit crazy but in general they are not filled with liberal idpol, clean up behind them, try to help and organise anarchistically. I fear that liberal idpol will invade even that last remaining functional somewhat leftist subculture.

You could make all protesters wear robes like in the Ku Klux Klan so they couldn't see a person's race or sex and didn't get triggered. It would also make the porky shit his pants to see millions of people in red robes camping under his ivory tower

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eh, this video was a series of calm negotiations compared to some of the shit I've seen and heard from idpolers.

the funny thing about this is that it sounds like a band-aid solution for minority members not feeling confident enough in front of their so-called comrades, when any group with a strong ethic for allowing these people to have their voices heard should be actively encouraging them to have a say and reassuring them when they feel uncertain of themselves.


white or black, I've noticed that most idpolers are rich kids. one of my friends dated one, whose parents are both lawyers, and who goes by a significantly more ethnic name than her real one on normiebook. another one of my friends was also threatened with fake rape accusations by another one of these loons, whom I was once told by on normiebook that I was 'silencing women' by disagreeing with a post lionising female bosses. my argument was based on real life experience in the workplace that I was going through at the time where I was seeing female co-workers become the main victims of my boss, because for some reason supermarket delis are all staffed by women.

Lenin hat we know its you. Your the only person who thinks this fucking idiot is worth listening too.

I'm a market socialist and I think Jodi Dean makes some pretty good points. Don't just hate on her because of sectarian bullshit.

This talk by her is also really good.
youtube.com/watch?v=Ly_uN3zbQSU

fuck off cunt, jodi is bae

nice dubs tho

100% this, idpolers actually love to segregate people (see 'woman safe spaces')

Organized a lot of people from around the country. The somewhat pernicious consequences of their training there is proof of the effectiveness of this action, at least.
Almost everything else

Nobody here believes this idea would work?

They would also need darth vader speech boxes to hide their accents. Actually this is a great idea.

you just jelly of her gardening skills

I'm not sure if dressing up as commie KKK Darth Vader is the best way to win hearts and minds.

The organizer would wear slightly different robes for obvious reasons and there also could be formed a protest police trained in mob control and spotting FBI agents so they could mark them with paint and throw out of the crowd

It's not about winning hearts and minds but being treated seriously. For over a century left is trying to win america's heart, where are the results?

Part of what went wrong was that they had no plan of resistance when the going got tough. The cops just came in and kicked them o out with extreme force and because none of them were armed they got effed in the ay.

Another thing was that they had no way to get their message across to all the stupid olds that can't into social media. Young people on the twitterspace seemed to have at least some idea of what was happening but any one over thirty seemed almost completely oblivious.

Lemme break this down bit by bit why this woman (and you will see why she is absolutely retarded) is to not to be takein seriously.

You see , when you have a body of theoretical works in which you claim to base in science, you should probably base those idea in the scientific process. However, her work is built on the basis of a few things that should immediately set off red flags for any kind of reason for her works based on science.

First of all, she an orthodox Marxist academic. Now i don't really have a problem with orthodox Marxist's, mostly because they dont do anything in any functioning organization other then talk about marx which, if you wanna be useless but still feel like your feeling you are fight the good fight then go ahead with that. But orthodox Marxists are very bad a not being totality biased in their writings, as well as all other people of various ideological tendencies but i digress. The main point is she is staring with this fundamental base from a fundamentalist perspective, which is never good.

Second, she also belives in a fundamentalist interperatation of Freudian psychoanalysis. Now i wont go into why psychoanalysis is shit exactly because this post is already too long and most of you wont read this. To keep it simple, she presents psychoanalysis as a proven scientific fact, which if you are at all familiar with you will know this is as far from the case as you can get.

Now these two things, these two fundamentalist interpretations of ideology mascaraing themselves as scientific analysis is a recipe for Jodi Dean being able to spew whatever it is she wants and people will listen to her out of ideological solidarity because shes a Marxist as well as being an academic, she has the additional benefit of being able to say whatever she wants and still sound coherent in her ideas as being an academic grants one the skill of bullshiting your way through life with the ability to argue your position, no matter if the actuall position you present has an basis in reality and not just 'theory'.

Its like building a house on quick sand, if the base for your ideas is built on unstable ground then the rest of your ideas have as much weight as they sink into the base of their ideology.

What the left did: Banging a bunch of bongos in the park while everyone fights each other over identity politics

What the right did: Slow infiltration, and removal of GOP establishment and replacement with tea party candidates

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We never went away bucko. But if you wanna back some academic instead of working class organizers actually out their doing something then go ahead.

So the owe must have made some impressive gains then if you've been organizing so many people. Can you tell me about some?

Wild catfag we know it's you. You're the only person capable of reducing yourself to the most vulgar of scientisms to dismiss theoretical discourse.

So the iww*

I have actually. Im heavily involved in the BOC at my local, tried to organize my workplace until they shut down 1 week after i got some proper fuckikng training. Then theirs the GDC which has managed to organize a about a couple thousand people since it came back to life, IWOC which, if you've been living under a rock for the last few months was one of a few organizations that organized the Largest prison strike in US history to date. Theirs a few other things i could mention but that would be excellent for me as im currently being hunted by a culmination of White nationalist skin heads so it best to keep that shit to a minimum.

So ya, tell me more why i should listen to jodi dean and not continue actually organizing my community?

Also, shilling time
iww.org/membership
You should join your local, and if theirs not a local near you, you can start your own with a couple people.

Dues depend on wages. We take all members of the working class, unemployed, retired, students and those above's dues are only 6 dollars a month.

Now their are two main reasons to join the iww. First of all it will get you out of the house and away from the computer to connect with people who you are politically aligned as well as connecting you to various activist's and other groups. Secondly, if you are new to the movement, they are very accommodating, people are always willing to talk and discuss things you might find the majority of people (liberals and such) dont know about.

Golly! So what did the strike win for the prisoners? I bet with the whole iww behind them they were able to win some awesome and badly needed reforms.

I mean even if it gained no concessions it brought a lot of attention to the problems in the us prison system, and showed other prisoners that organization is possible. I expect we'll see a bigger strike in the future.

Maybe Stalin wasn't so bad.

Idk I read that crowd and party book and found the central argument (the necessity of an organized party with central aims) pretty convincing. It would be more effective if you explained why her views are wrong rather then just attacking perceived flaws in her ideological beliefs.

If anything similar to Occupy comes to my city/country I might try that library thing. I can even bring my arm chair.

This, join your local IWW branch or anarcho sydicalist union. Regardless if your ideology or opinions.

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Fuck those options

Sweet jesus fucking christ in heaven.

It was an amazing display of power.
Wish it had accomplished more.
SJWs were annoying.

Is just a meme friendo.

Reminder that idpol and socjus have been COINTELPRO since the days of Marx and Bakunin themselves, and the Soroses of the world have deliberately neutered the Western left with them.

Fuck.

This in addition to

Quick, Holla Forums! A new OWS has just exploded onto the political scene and they're trying to COINTELPRO it again! What do?

Remind everyone to stick to the roots of the movement and immediately expel all agitators/idpolers calling for otherwise.

People focused too much on class.

t. /anarcho/

take Fred Hampton's speech and reword it.

I was watching some video about socialism on YouTube and stumbled onto one of his speeches which got me watching him for the next 2 hours. Truly amazing and what we need today.

I swear to you, I'm only now realising the amount of typos and errors I made in that Victoria Woodhull post. My english is terrible and I was sleepy af.

After I wrote it I thought about expanding it into an article and submiting it to the Editor, but then Bunkerchan died. I still have the draft somewhere, I think I'll turn it into a blog post someday. There's even more important lessons to take out of this entire episode with the north american International than that.

fuck its depressing to think of Fred Hampton. He was so young and could have continued to do even greater things.

(you)
I think not

it was just a bunch of idiots showing up angry about "stuff"

no one got around to clarifying what "stuff" was or what to do about "stuff"

so it was a bunch of aimless drum circles, instead of drum circles raising awareness about "x"

Right wingers are the new revolutionaries. Just sit back, watch and learn how we do it.