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Forum Post: Historical Parallels to the Present Moment

Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 20, 2011, 6:37 p.m. EST by GarciaLorca (53)
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http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/andreas-whittam-smith/andreas-whittam-smith-western-nations-are-now-ripe-for-revolution-2372930.html

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[-] 1 points by FHampton (309) 12 years ago

"The movement had become respectable. And with respectability came danger—Stage four. A major protest movement that has caught on usually faces two major threats. One is the organization of a significant right-wing counterdemonstration in the streets. Eric Cantor, the hardline (and quite astute) Republican congressional leader, has already called for that in effect. These counterdemonstrations can be quite ferocious. The Occupy Wall Street movement needs to be prepared for this and think through how it intends to handle or contain it."

"But the second and bigger threat comes from the very success of the movement. As it attracts more support, it increases the diversity of views among the active protestors. The problem here is, as it always is, how to avoid the Scylla of being a tight cult that would lose because it is too narrowly based, and the Charybdis of no longer having a political coherence because it is too broad. There is no simple formula of how to manage avoiding going to either extreme. It is difficult."

http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/752-immanuel-wallerstein-occupy-wall-street-is-the-most-important-political-happening-in-america-since-1968

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