So now Occupy is against world trade and capitalism? They will lose support of the 50+% of the 99%

[Leopolds Ghost]

63. As a left-libertarian, I'm opposed to Occupy being co-opted by Old Left and various Old Left groups

Many of whom have been hobbled and hollowed out by people who are not who they say they are, over the course of decades if not at their time of founding.

BUT -- That being said, I have to totally disagree with the OP in most other aspects.

Globalization was a problem ten years ago when the anti-globalization movement rallied more people in the streets than we see at the moment. People didn't rally then because it was leftist -- they rallied because they understood that globalization in the post-Reagan sense was a problem that was destroying the traditional local economy everywhere. Part of the issue with Occupy is not to let it become just another series of street protests.

We need a radical POPULIST movement in this country with Occupy as the initial volley of that effort. You can't be a radical populist movement if you don't go up against established status quo.

If nobody's (bronze) ox is being gored then no change will occur.

But it has to be cast (get it? bronze ox?) in terms that are directed by and towards the 99%, not narrow catchphrases of the "old" (authoritarian) left.

No offense meant to social leftists. There are social democrats and leftists who understand that the government has become, if not always was, instituted primarily to benefit the ownership class and the only way to challenge that is from below. But it is a fundamentally (left) libertarian or populist premise and hence a fundamentally American premise. No need to resort to intellectualisms of the self-isolated left activist groups -- the ones that don't want to engage or reach out to people they disagree with. That includes left-libertarians who associate entirely with isolated left causes and don't actually practice what they preach...