mi-to-sis cell division in which complex nuclear division involving halving of chromosomes precedes ctyoplasimic fission and which involves typically a series of steps consisting of prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase.
I don't know whether I've gotten to the level of sophistication in my political analysis so that I can dissect the four stages of division of miosis in the Occupy Wall Street movement. I'll leave that to other political analysts. But it's obvious that we're at the point where the cell is beginning to split apart.
The most recent Samantha Bee dissection of the OWS movement in Zuccotti Park (0n the Daily Show) is both deadly and spot on in its analysis. As soon as you get through reading this, it's a must that you pull up that video. Because it succinctly describes the class divisions that are beginning to take place within the movement as we speak, both nationally and internationally. On the one hand, we have the idealistic, sophisticated types who are into General Assembly meetings and process.
On the other hand, we have the homeless -- with their multiple issues and factions, and we have the young anarchists, who represent the hard core rebels against society. None of these people are going away unless there's some kind of Nazi extermination process in this society. They cannot be eliminated, and up until now, society has relegated these people to total invisibility. No more. They're visible, in our face -- and they're not going away.
The OWS movement has brought these people out in the open, and now the task of the society that calls itself the United States of America is to figure out how to deal with and accept those people who are truly on the margins of society, accepting them for what they are. The OWS movement has given a very loud and clear signal to the rest of the country and the rest of the world and that message is -- DEAL WITH IT!
I saw some stupid things happen in OWS across the country, and I've seen some incredibly stupid things that cops have done to the protester. Like it or not, we're in for a helluva roller coaster ride in the coming years. Rightly or wrongly -- everyone -- both right and left has brought us to this place.
And historically, it appears as if the place we've been brought to collectively is the 1880s in America. Haymarket Riot, sweatshops, diptheria, financial panics -- get used to it. This is certainly the vision of free market capitalism that's been articulated by the disciples of Ayn Rand and Milton Freidman, and it's becoming a reality.
The only problem is, we've entered the thrill park, and we don't know which roller coaster we're going to ride on yet.
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So, now the US activist Left is on par, to a degree, with activist groups throughout the world. We have achieved "consciousness" and come "online" so to speak. We have awaken.
OWS was successful in that it changed the national discussion, put an emphasis on income disparity, and changed the national rhetorical interchange. That said, they made countless tactical errors which cannot be repeated in the future if they want further, more lasting, more monumental success. The NYPD was able to counter their every protest-tactic, because their strategy of "horizontal leadership" was akin to anarchy and easily thwarted and diffused.
This is not to say they didn't score points and win some victories. They did. But these were moral victories, not tactical victories. At the end of the day the moral victories matter most. But winning moral victories, alone, will not win you power nor influence the outcome of an election, nor turn your protest movement into a successful, sustainable, long-term mass-movement.
There needs to be more cohesive leadership. They need to find a way to combine the concept of horizontal leadership and hierarchical leadership, to combine the benefits of both, and get rid of the detriments of both, as there are positives and negatives to both approaches.
For example, with horizontal leadership, the crowd can make spontaneous, erroneous decisions. They went to protest city hall but they all went to the wrong building for 1 hour until somebody realized it was the wrong place. It also took a while for the group to realize this. With coordinated, disciplined leadership, this sort of thing would not happen. It also costs the group massive PR points to make an error like this and costs them credibility in the eyes of the public.
Here's a link from Reuters discussing the video, which is included.
I think you still have alot of Bourgeois liberals who need to overcome their own "class position," in order to more successfully get this thing off the ground. That yuppy with his i-pad has no idea how to lead a mass movement. Furthermore, all those yuppies from Brooklyn at "uptown" Zucatti park, rather than segregate themselves, should have integrated themselves with the masses in downtown Zucatti park. You cannot lead from the rear, but only from the front, from the ranks of your own soldiers. This is the lesson of Alexander the Great, of Caesar, and Che. This is why, perhaps, they failed. Not enough of the intellectuals were dispersed among the workers. They were too grouped and clumped among themselves.
You have the problem of "too many chiefs and too few indians." Only here, all the chiefs were among themselves and they weren't distributed among the indians sufficiently to make a difference in battle. Officers must be scientifically distributed among the regiments prior to any engagement.
This is why you need generals and some form of hierarchical decision making, to give orders and make decisions like these.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"
--upton sinclair
"One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of ideas."
--victor hugo
occupy party reaches critical mass/seismic effect--now what?
This is the first I've seen of the social split within ZP, which is interesting. It's easy to see the split between the wiser heads and the small group of "any protest, anytime" anarchists, though that was more evident in Oakland.
America is still a whelp. She is a growing gal. Growth brings immense cellular complexity. But in ONE ORGANISM, all cells serve a purpose. We claim to be a Union; hell, we slaughtered each other to make sure it would be so. “The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” Lincoln, 1861.
The American chorus is discordant , because her voice has not yet matured, “changed”, as we say.
On the other hand, a little amputation of malignant tissue might be in order. To replace it, mitosis is the first step, if my science is correct here.
The biological comparison you make is not a frivolous one. We are not a collection of microbes under glass . We are an organism.
reminds me of the socialist worker's party meetings, only even less sophisticated.