In many ways, the core of the Occupy Wall St. movement’s impact in the U.S. has been to expose how corrupt our systems of governance really are, and to show in action what (direct) democracy, actually looks like. We live in an age of perverse language, when “democracy” and “freedom” are exported by drones, or at gunpoint, and where anarchism — democracy without government — is viewed by many as tantamount to terrorism.

With those specific things in mind, here is a cluster of material related to the underlying theory and evolving practice of the Occupy movement, highlighting adaptive and prefigurative organizing successes and casting an eye towards 2012.

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