Political Action

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Occupy and the social activists have had a moreorless unchallenged position of declaring their tactics as the primary ones. This article argues differently. Of course, the danger is in the detail, that it leads to reformism, but as a broader case it shares ours that political action is a necessary pre-requisite for the class struggle

http://inthesetimes.org/article/15858/the_social_movement_romance/

"The choice is not between social movements or electoral organizing. We need both."

This too is the realisation of manyin the Occupy Movement in this country that have now formed a political party – a point one of our ex-comrades who was enthusiastic about Occupy has conveniently skipped passed over even though many in our organisation highlighted that weakness of Occupy which was that protest alone was not enough to change things. 

Of course, since we failed to succeed in conveying that message to Occupy we cannot rest upon our laurels and therefore our critique does not get its due credit. Now that they have formed an organisation for political action it is sad to see that it has all the ingredients for a recipe of a cake falling flat. Our role as Jeremiahs is an unwelcomed one and we should b searching for the means of being comradely critical. 

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