Forum Post: On the indecision of the occupy movement
Posted 12 years ago on Dec. 6, 2011, 7:19 p.m. EST by opassodosim
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Hello there!
My name is Lucas, and I've recently written an article on the indecision of the ocuppy movement, defending its negative (not to be confused with bad) side and most of all its positive side. I've just translated it to english and added a few changes, and I would really appreciate if anyone could share their thoughts on it, as it's my own personal way of trying to help with thinking and developing some of the ideas behind the movement. =) So, here goes the link:
Hope it can add something interesting to whoever might read it =)
Having done a first glance skim, it looks good, and from my perspective, accurate. There is no point in making concrete demands, because we know they won't be met.
It's much more to the advantage of OWS to simply keep the movement active and vital until we get "satisfaction." There are too many things that need to be changed in both the public and private sector to think that a simple list of demands will bring us satisfactory results at this time.
Thank you, Just1MoreVoice =)) And I agree, though I would say that it's not that concrete demands can't be done, but just that they can't be though of as punctual demands, in such a fashion that they could be put into a 'list' of sorts; on the contrary, what the OWS demands is so complex and new that what it proposes must often confound itself to what the OWS itself is and does. In other words: what we want is what we are creating: this is what we propose. But there's an additional side: we can make also concrete demands in a more specific sense, but these would have to be seen more as a plan, as a conjunction of demands that must be intertwined, than a list in which each demand appears independently.