TheOldGreyWhistle wrote:The

December 2025 Forums General discussion The ‘Occupy’ movement TheOldGreyWhistle wrote:The

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DJP
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TheOldGreyWhistle wrote:
The Occupy movements are not political parties and nor were the Miners in 1984. We were working people at war with the capitalist class

I wonder how much you’ve actually participated in this Occupy stuff? The most popular currents within it (at least in the UK) seem to be for a land tax ala Henry George and monetary reform ala Postitive Money / NEF as well as some Green Party type ideas.. These are things that Socialists should be criticising and ridiculing!The trouble with the Occupy thing is that it’s so amophous for it really to represent a cohesive organisation, but where it to become one, I feel alas it would be necessary to oppose it.SOME of the actions associated with the wider occupy movement, and mostly in the US, are inspiring particularly how it worked together with various trade union / workplace activities – I’m not sure if this happened so much in the UK?Reform or revolution does not mean that we should oppose all reforms (as the other SPGB seem to think) but that we should oppose reformism, the illusion that you can get to socialism by gradually stacking reforms one on top of the other.