>>2403838>Same. I have more sympathy for dorks with wrong ideas than for people that are dishonest.Yknow one of the most stark images of the OWS protests was the protesters marching past some hedge fund or what have you, and these stock broker types decided to have a party on the balcony. They were popping champagne bottles and literally pouring it onto the streets, they were taking pictures and laughing at the protesters. They had beautiful women in jewelry with fancy dresses smirking down on them. And I thought: my God they’re just daring people to lynch them. They’re daring all these folks that got kicked down and spat on in 2008 to force open the doors and hang them from their fucking balconies. It was just a depiction of pure class antagonism.
Nothing the Right said during or after Occupy stuck as much as that image. They tried to make some “I am the 54%” type of deal where it was all “I work two jobs and don’t have healthcare, I’ll be damned if my money goes to some fucking MOOCHERS!” But it was just these rich assholes sneering at the crowd that stuck.
Now there’s of course some section of intellectuals who’ll cynically talk about “Harumph, muh cross class character! Anarchism! Liberalism! Revisionism! Sentimentalism!” While Occupy undoubtedly failed for numerous tactical reasons, it represented a more organic movement of the working classes in this country than any fucking nonsense that the thousandth Marxist-Leninist reading group has accomplished. It’s not that they don’t do anything, it’s that they can’t. They’re detached from the concerns of working people. If they made a call: “workers! Take to the streets! Against finance capital! Against Trotskyite revisionism! Against Anarchism!” They’d be fucking ignored.
Apologies for the rant, but by God, you’ve got people that couldn’t even spur a third of the class antagonism brought on by Occupy trying to sneer that this is all because of the esoteric dogma disputes that literally only they care about.