Thursday, October 27, 2011

More on the anarchist roots of Occupy Wall Street

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a piece up about the anarchist roots of OWS. Here is a teaser:
But Occupy Wall Street's most defining characteristics—its decentralized nature and its intensive process of participatory, consensus-based decision-making—are rooted in other precincts of academe and activism: in the scholarship of anarchism ...
I've written about this here and here. The Chronicle piece adds some (ptretty speculative) detail about the genealogy. I'm not sure you can really be as precise as they try to be but it is pretty certain the protestors learned this stuff at university.

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