[Marxism] Left Forum 2012

[Louis Proyect]

On 3/20/2012 9:33 AM, DW wrote:
> I'm wondering if Louis himself stayed overnight at Zuccotti Park or
> participated in the GAs. Ah, but this could be  a west coast/ east coast
> thing? Maybe.

Of course not. I haven't been an activist since the late 1980s 
when I was president of Tecnica, an organization that sent 
hundreds of volunteers to Nicaragua and the front-line states in 
Africa.

> Socialist Organizer, ISO, PSL ALL had people encamped at both SF and
> Oakland Occupy(s).

That is not what I questioned. What I questioned is how anarchists 
and non-party radicals took the *first step* in getting the 
movement going.

>
> I would say, Louis, you really haven't a clue about what organized
> self-described Leninist were doing or not in Occupy.

I have enough of a clue to know that this movement would have not 
come into existence if it had to rely on groups like the ISO, SA 
or your own to take *the first step*.