i have to admit we are seen

i have to admit we are seen as a party of "old" men talking in "old" language about "old" ideas. But what age is Noam Chomsky. What are the ages of the economists and anthropologists and writers that inspire Occupy. What is so different about their language (plenty of academics usually involved) they use from our own? Not very much! So i think it is a bit easy to put it down to a generational thing. The fact of the matter is that our ideas, in the way we express them do not relate to Occupy and they are not receptive to them. Is it a reflection that in todays world people want a fast fix? Then our aim must be to demonstrate that the solutions being offered retard radical change. The slogans and speeches of Occupy frequently sound revolutionary but from past personal experience in other similar situations when we start talking about no countries, no money, no leaders, no government, it is surprising how quickly some return to their conservatism and raise the usual objections that we have to take political baby-steps before we run. Erich Fromm called it the fear of freedom, didn't he? We must again declare ourselves the impossiblists demanding utopia now. Instead of challenging Occupy's manifesto, forcing them into being defensive, we must somehow get them to start questioning our positions, demanding we explain and justify them.The strengths we saw in Occupy, the leaderlessness, the lack of reform demands, are now being re-evaluated as its weaknesses. I think we have to defend Occupy's beginnings but repeat our original criticism  that Occupy's structurelessness  would  create a void that leaders fill and it lacked the defined goal of establishing socialism/communim/anarchism which would lead to lesser objectives substituting. What we first said appears to be more and more valid.In a blog post about Michael Albert of Parecon i made the point that Socialist Punk made, that it must be a bit ego deflating to learn that your ideas have been raised before and dismissed before and all you have accomplished is invented a few new words for much the same thing.