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Haw haw -- I'll bet! This IGD person is clearly in the market to buy a cool bridge I own that goes from somewhere near Zuccotti Park -- and very close to it in spirit! -- to Brooklyn.

What we see in this piece is the usual Mountain-must-come-to-Mohammed delusions of grandeur of the protest ghetto left, spiky-guy-division. I was in and around Occupy Oakland -- it had no traction among the vast majority of those of us who must sell our labor power for wages and have nothing to lose but our pains. It quickly decomposed into being the same old stuff that left-liberal compulsive protestors always do already. It was a theatre of opposition, not a bare-knuckle real world opposition to what capitalist social relations do to our lives.

This stuff had, and continues to have, no material impact in the real world.

In a democratic capitalist society, there are politicians who win most of the time. There are politicians who lose most of the time. And there are capitalist politicians who lose all of the time, and that's the left in America. We don't need politically incoherent hippie street theatre, we need something analogous in 21st century terms to the real IWW of the early 20th century -- an anti-wage labor social movement of the wage-earning class.

Occupy was not it -- not even close.