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kleinbl00 · 1161 days ago · link · · parent · post: 10 Years ago this weekend, the American Progressive movement was murdered and nobody cares.
Nobody commemorates the day Tienamen was occupied. They commemorate the day the tanks rolled. OWS is hard to commemorate because it was diffused, not defeated. David Graeber wrote a great article about what didn't work and why; you can't find it now because if you search "David Graeber" "Occupy Wall Street" what you get are a bunch of obituaries. Supposedly, Occupy Wall Street won the future. I'm not sure that's true. One thing's for sure - it crushed a lot of dreams.