Whither #OWS? Lefter or Broader?
December 16, 2011 Leave a comment

But Can OWS Do That?
Addressing a very important issue as the movement grows, this article asks, do we become more radical in a particularly leftist kind of way, or more inclusive?
The author says, “If you believe that the Occupy movement is still struggling for a mass base, as this writer does, then you’ll likely agree that Occupy needs to immediately focus on broadening its base and wage militant struggles for demands that will bring in the wider working class community.”
And further, “an Occupy movement that ignores these popular demands and fails to unite the vast majority–and instead fights for more radical demands that are now only embraced by a relative few–has no real revolutionary potential, since it ignores the basic needs of the majority of working people.”
What think you?