The Oakland Commune
From Aaron Bady‘s essay at Possible Futures on the differences between Occupy Wall Street and the Oakland Commune: As a site of resistance, “Wall Street” is a metonym for a system, a transnational apparatus of capital and political oligarchy. We don’t have to get too specific, because we all know what we mean when we say “Wall Street” (even if we don’t agree on what that thing actually is). And [...]