Occupy was correct. They saw the future. They knew the past.

vintage pins found at a tiny thrift store in Oregon City for 10cents a piece

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as a retrospective, occupy wall street was the endpoint of the kind of ‘horizontalist’ politics that was popularized with the anti-globalization movement. the involvement of adbusters in establishing the initial ows is more than enough to show us how direct this influence is. underpinning the anti-globalization movement in the global north was a reliance on the framework consecrated by liberalism, and idealist notions that democracy had been distorted from its optimal function by the presence of trans-national corporations bypassing the power of the state. the idea that in the first instance, the state is an instrument of class power - specifically the power of the bourgeoisie, in the capitalist epoch.

occupy’s failure, is the shared failure of that anti-globalization movement, and in between - that of the arab spring, which had seemingly exhausted imagination for another kind of social modality other than one informed by neoliberalism - islamist or not. even the anti-globalization movement came to fore as a sort of post-cold war rebuke of state socialism and the vanguardist politics used to set it up, only to fumble once confronted with the hard power of the state and especially great power conflicts - in a way that ‘actual existing socialist’ states could not do. the occupy movement also forgoed the kind of deep organising that could actually build class consciousness and galvanise the working class into making demands.

i’m not saying that the occupy movement was bad, or counterproductive: it politicized a generation of people, and broke out of this anhedonic, apathetic morose typical of atomised subjects under neoliberalism. I’m just saying that it was no threat to the ruling class, to any corporations, to anyone wearing the robes of institutional power. pro-ows assessment would rather we think how well ows spread and that was the real victory, like there wasn’t a demand for the neoliberal epoch - whether it was explicity stated or otherwise.

Passionate Patriots: 1968 DNC Nightmare in Chicago

. Source:FRS FreeState The Democratic Party cost themselves the presidential election of 1968 and a chance to win the White House for a third straight time and 8-10 presidential elections, going back to 1932 with FDR. To go along with another Democratic Congress because of how divided they were on the Vietnam War. A lot of that can be blamed on President Johnson’s handling of the Vietnam War, but…

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The Left Opposition: Vanished Without a Trace?

The Chinese fund the Democrats, and the Chinese are Eugenicists against homosexuality and feminism. The Russians fund the Republicans, and the Russians are nationalist racist psychos that imprison homosexuals and feminists. Multinational corporations coopted LGBTQ and Feminist activism after Occupy Wall Street, yet our political discourse is still being constantly interrupted by arguments over arbitrary cultural identifiers. The lesson here is to grow up and learn to think and take care of yourself. Most people will do whatever it takes to remain immature and childish. They expect a Democratic state to take care of them, which fundamentally goes against the foundational philosophy of Democracy. God did 9/11.

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Occupy Wall Street - 10th anniversary celebration. (September 2021)

Again me dressed in all black bloc fashion. I always dress like this at protests. 🪧 🏴

Zuccotti Park , NYC