Comments on: Reflections on the New School Occupation

By: Joe L.

Joe L. — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:34:53 +0000

It should be noted that while the insurrectionists were plotting their deeds in the Brooklyn hideout, your side had their own private meetings to plan strategy and tactics outside of the GAs. These sorts of actions point to the weakness of the student movement, at especially nowadays when there is hardly any popular activity among the students at large. What of this new formation, the “Student Action Initiative” and what sort of mass following has it procured in the five months since the occupation officially ended? What cautious path has it tread in light of October 5th and N17 to show the rest of us that your rational, even-handedness are values reflected in the student at The New School? Propaganda of the deed has a clear track record of failure, but so does the Model Activist Persona as well. Again, signs of weakness to a non-movement.

Enough of that for now. Movements hardly spring forth from good organizing, and even less so from none at all. I wonder what the role of the SAI would be when students do erupt in anger–will the leadership attempt to toss nets over them, reign them in to one of your weekly meetings? That is the real question at hand, and one in which neither you nor the insurrectionists will never be able to adequately answer.

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By: Dan B

Dan B — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:57:13 +0000

…They are the alchemists of the revolution and are characterized by exactly the same chaotic thinking and blinkered obsessions as the alchemists of old. They leap at inventions which are supposed to work revolutionary miracles: incendiary bombs, destructive devices of magic effect, revolts which are expected to be all the more miraculous and astonishing in effect as their basis is less rational.
-Marx

By: T.Boyd

T.Boyd — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:40:51 +0000

@S.Artesian—- I agree. This reads like a contradictory account of a naive school play about “autonomous radicalism”.

By: S.Artesian

S.Artesian — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:40:42 +0000

So… what was the reason for the occupation? Exactly what did it hope to accomplish. Seems to me, this occupation is a gigantic step backward from those engaged in in the UK.

Did anyone even bother bring up that while NYU and Columbia are UNTAXED by the city of NY [and gigantic landlords], CUNY tuition climbs and that CUNY had managed to remain tuition-free during the Great Depression?

Here’s where the formlessness, the “autonomy” of OWS like actions really falls apart.

Nobody knows why the fuck they are doing anything.

By: peter

peter — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:03:34 +0000

off with their opportunist heads!