• aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
    hexbear
    30
    5 months ago

    Was Occupy Wall Street the most successful op of the 21st century? Took all the anger from people losing their homes, jobs and the global economy being crashed, and channeled it into a bunch of stuff like this.

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
      hexbear
      30
      5 months ago

      I don’t think it was an op. I think it was genuine. It was ultimately violently suppressed after all.

      TrueAnon 324 deals with this explicitly. What was missing from occupy was leadership, specifically, a vanguard with a plan. If it were to happen again today I am not sure the outcome would be any different.

      https://www.patreon.com/posts/90386568?utm_campaign=postshare_fan

      • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
        hexbear
        24
        5 months ago

        Yep. If I bring up that occupy 2.0 in 2024 would be functionally identical to 1.0 in 2008 you get a bunch of street protester types saying “no it’s much different now we learned lessons”.

        doubt

        Unless you have formed a Marxist vanguard you haven’t “learned lessons” enough

        • @PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
          hexbear
          8
          edit-2
          5 months ago

          Historically proven by over century of succdems making the exact same mistakes and ignoring all the previous succdems making the same mistakes. It's almost like they are some kind of judas goats leading baby leftists to imperialist slaughter.

    • Tunnelvision [they/them]
      hexbear
      22
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      You can tell it wasn’t an op because rich people legit threw champagne on the protesters like it was the French Revolution or some shit. You know, like how they actually want to behave. Yeah lots of libs, but I’m sure it radicalized many.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
      hexbear
      15
      edit-2
      5 months ago

      If it was we opped ourselves by having giant leaderless meetings that went nowhere and insisting on “horizontal structure” everywhere

    • @oktherebuddy
      hexbear
      12
      5 months ago

      nah this is literally just some guy affixing labels to himself