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A Marxist Perspective on OWS (or wherever): Its significance, its potential, & its problems
  • RossWolfe October 2011 +1 -1
    I am not sure whether to post this in the "Method, Strategy, & Tactics" section or the "Historical Models" section, so I will probably post it in both.

    Having visited and participated in the Occupy Wall Street protests for several days now, I found myself asking such questions as: What does Occupy Wall Street represent? What are its possibilities? What are its main deficiencies? In attempting to provide answers to these questions, I arrived at the following (Marxist) perspective:

    "Reflections on Occupy Wall Street: What it Represents, Its Prospects, and Its Deficiencies"

    http://wp.me/pgGDG-K4
  • Brutal_Truth October 2011 +1 -1
    We need to take a good long look at what the Bolivians were able to accomplish a few years ago and apply it to the U.S.

    http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1563

    http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=03/11/10/6247252
  • Peet October 2011 +1 -1
    Bolivia, Great, where the average income PER YEAR is $920.19 per person, where the USA is approx $33,000
  • JonathanMFeldmanJonathanMFeldman October 2011 +1 -1
    How does one gain economic power and what theories indicate how to do that?
    How do you do it democratically? How do you advance these goals without associating yourself with labels that the general public thinks are illegitimate? How do you gain power if you ignore mass opinion? How do you analyze movements if you rely to heavily on intellectuals operating in a different historical context who weren't necessarily right anyway.
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