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Its far from role playing. As I said they were putting anarchist principles in practice. You say they need a leader, they showed they did not need a leader. I

Its far from role playing. As I said they were putting anarchist principles in practice. You say they need a leader, they showed they did not need a leader. I did not see them being hijacked by anything but the police force. They had a message, they communicated that message, everyone heard the message. That the people were unwilling to support them more vocally, but instead were successfully divided by the media, was not a failure on the part of occupy, but an example that propaganda is very, very effective against the masses.

mpyne 13y ago
> Its far from role playing. As I said they were putting anarchist principles in practice. You say they need a leader, they showed they did not need a leader. He said they need a leader to evangelize. You say they didn't need a leader to organize a coherent group. You might be right, but given that Occupy seemed to me to be a political action movement, and there's been exactly zero substantive political action, we have to consider it as a failure. And apparently that means we have to consider 'anarchist principles' as a failure, unless there is some better explanation of why they failed in this case to drive political improvement.