I’m tired of this line in the media about how our #Occupy movement lacks demands. Our movement is not about demanding, it’s about creating. We’re not interested in demanding that people in power do this or that. We don’t believe in their authority in the first place. Rather, we are getting on with the business of creating new forms of life without them. The general assemblies are already functioning as a parallel system of direct democracy to the stale representative democracy offered by the elites. Eventually, we can also extend this self-organisation into the economic sphere by forming cooperatives to provide for each other’s needs. There is a “no” in this movement, i.e. the “no” against capitalism, but it is the “yes” to cultivating post-capitalist futures right here and now that necessarily takes precedence.

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   unrepresentative government...are routing around it.

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   I’m tired of this line in the media about how our #Occupy movement lacks demands. Our movement is not about demanding,...

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