The Ultimate Triumph of Situationism?

Hooshang Tarreh-Gol
by Hooshang Tarreh-Gol
14-Oct-2011
 

Tomorrow October 15, 2011 is a day of coordinated international protests. These are based on the North African and Spaniard movements before them, aslo augmented by the recent Occupy Wall St, and its nation wide effect. Whatever the ultimate outcome of all these movements and protests, one aspect is very certain, and that's the Situationist roots the influence of the journal Ad Buster, "Cultural Jamming" and the Situationist school of thought, on the October 15 Protests, OWS,.. You be the judge.

Below is "the" Situationist text of all times:

Society of the Spectacle

//www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/s...

Adbusters

//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adbusters

//www.adbusters.org/campaigns/occupywallstree...

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در وال استریت، بحران توفان زایید

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فریبرز رییس دانا

 

متن سخنرانی فریبرز رییس دانا در میزگرد تحلیل اجتماعی- اقتصادی جنبش اشغال وال استریت

دانشکده علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه تهران

هفتم آذر ۱۳۹۰

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بر روی یکی از پلاکاردهای معترضان وال استریت نوشته شده بود:

جهان به اندازه نیاز هر کس دارد، به اندازه حرص هر کس ندارد

در همه جای امریکا، شرکت کنندگان در جنبش وال استریت، اندیشه
مند، آگاه و هوشیارند؛ گرچه به طور متوسط، از متوسط جامعه کم درآمدتر اند،
اما از متوسط جامعه، درد آشناتر و هدفمندتر اند. آنها نه جامعه ای خیالی را
در سر می پرورند و نه در نوستالوژی بازگشت به گذشته اند. آنها نقطه ی
مقابل تی پارتی محافظه کار اند، زیرا به آینده ای شدنی، بهتر و مطمئن تر می
اندیشند. ایدئولوژی برای آنان، نظریه را نمی سازد و نظریه، زندگی را فدا
نمی کند. بر عکس، آنها به زندگی شادکامانه، مردمی و آزاد می اندیشند و از
آنجا نظریه می گیرند و از آن نظریه هاست که می روند تا به ایدئولوژی مقاومت
و مبارزه، دست یابند.

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جلسه بررسی اقتصادی - اجتماعی جنبش وال استریت در دانشگاه تهران

بدیل ما سوسیالیسم است روز
دوشنبه ۷ آذر در محل انجمن جامعه شناسی دانشکده علوم اجتماعی دانشگاه
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محس حکیمی(نویسنده و مترجم)، علی رضا ثقفی ( نویسنده و مترجم)   برگزار
شد.  نکته قابل توجه استقبال زیاد مخاطبان بود که بیش از ظرفیت سالن
برگزاری بود. در نتیجه به قول مجری برنامه حضار به معترضان وال استریت بر
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//www.thestreet.com/story/11293836/1/meet-the...

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Debt


The First 5,000 Years

//mhpbooks.com/books/debt/

 


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 //rt.com/news/bloody-story-brendan-watts-617/

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on the roof of Casino Wall Street

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10/ 10/11 “Columbus” Day/Liberty Plaza          Anne Waldman

//occupywriters.com/works/by-anne-waldman

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//occupywriters.com/

JOIN US

Send us your name and the name of your publication, as above.

NOTE: Given the large volume of submissions, there will be some delay
before your name appears in the list. Volunteers are entering each and
every name by hand.

Once you’ve done that, visit your local occupation and write about it—a paragraph, a poem, a comic, a story, a vignette, anything goes—and send it our way. We’re looking for original
writing by signatories to the list. What kind of writing is up to you,
but we’re especially interested in hearing accounts, in any form, of
your experiences at Occupy camps and protests around the world.


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//www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp41TfiGddc

 

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//www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvh0suXrmNY


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17آبان. آريا آرام نژاد خواننده و آهنگساز جوان با يورش مامورين اطلاعات بازداشت شد

بر اساس گزارشات رسيده از منابع استان مازندران آريا آرام نژاد آهنگ
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اطلاعات استان مازندران بازداشت شده است.

آريا آرام نژاد که برای پيگيری پرونده محکوميت خود به دادگاه تجديد نظر
استان مازندران واقع در ساری مراجعه کرده بود، پس از بازگشت به منزل با
يورش ماموران امنيتی بازداشت و به مکان نا معلومی انتقال داده شد.

بنا به اين گزارش اين دستگيری همراه با ضرب شتم اين آهنگساز جوان و
دستبند زدن در داخل خانه توسط ماموران اطلاعات شهرستان بابل صورت گرفت
.گفتنی است ماموران امنيتی ضمن تفتيش منزل بخشی از دست نوشته های آريا و
مدارک کاری و همچنين کامپيوتر شخصی او را نيزتوقيف کرده و با خود بردند.

آريا آرام نژاد آهنگ ساز خوش ذوق و نام آشنای هوادار جنبش است که پس از
حوادث عاشورای ۱۳۸۸ ترانه‌ای با عنوان علی برخيز ارائه کرد. وی چندی پس از
انتشار اين ترانه که با استقبال خوبی از سوی مردم و مخاطبان مواجه گرديده
بود، توسط اداره اطلاعات بابل در ۲۶ بهمن ماه ۱۳۸۸ به اتهام اقدام عليه
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در دادگاه انقلاب شهرستان بابل به نه ماه حبس تعزيری محکوم شده بود.
دادگاه تجديد نظر در حال بررسی پرونده فعالين سبز شهر بابل است که تا کنون
نتيجه دادگاه مشخص نگرديده است. 17 آبان 1390
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//www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKYWOwWAguk

Don't you know you're talking about a revolution
Sounds like a whisper
Don't you know they're talking about a revolution
Sounds like a whisper

While they're standing in the welfare lines
Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation
Wasting time in unemployment lines
Sitting around waiting for a promotion

Don't you know you're talking about a revolution
Sounds like a whisper

Poor people  gonna rise up
And get their share
Poor people are gonna rise up
And take what's theirs

Don't you know you better run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run
Oh I said you better run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run

It's finally the tables are starting to turn
Talking about a revolution
It's finally the tables are starting to turn
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Talking about a revolution going on

While they're standing in the welfare lines
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Don't you know you're talking about a revolution
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And finally the tables are starting to turn
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Finally the tables are starting to turn
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Talking about a revolution. going on
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The Situationists and the Occupation Movements (1968/2011)

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" We are not just inspired by what happened in the Arab
Spring recently, we are students of the Situationist movement. Those are
the people who gave birth to what many people think was the first
global revolution back in 1968
"

//www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/08/the-situati...

Complemenatary reading with the text above, could be a browse through the foot notes below:

1) Tis one: Originally published as a weekly column, widely read by the youth of Paris, some of whome took the pavement stones and put them to good use.

From The Revolution Of Everyday Life

//www.brooklynrail.org/2011/11/lastwords/the-...

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2) Tis two, the second one aka: The World-system theory.

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Occupation Listings

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Declaration of the Occupation of New York City

By the NYC General Assembly

 

As
we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling o mass injustice,
we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that
all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can
know that we are your allies. We come to you at a time when
corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over
justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have
peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

 

1-Alabama

Occupy Auburn    Occupy Birmingham     Occupy Huntsville    Occupy Mobile   Occupy Tuscaloosa

 

2-Alaska

Occupy Alaska    Occupy Anchorage

 

3-Arizona

Occupy Arizona    Occupy Flagstaff     Occupy Phoenix

 

Occupy Tempe    Occupy Tucson         Occupy Yuma

 

4-Arkansas

Occupy Arkansas    Occupy Fayetteville

 

5-California

Occupy Arcata    Occupy Berkeley    Occupy Central Valley   Occupy Chico   Occupy Coachella Valley  Occupy Costa Mesa    Occupy Eureka    Occupy Fresno Occupy Humboldt    Occupy Irvine    Occupy Long Beach Occupy Los Angeles    Occupy Merced    Occupy Modesto    Occupy Napa   Occupy Oakland    Occupy Orange County   Occupy Redding    Occupy Riverside Occupy Sacramento    Occupy Santa Barbara    Occupy Santa Cruz    Occupy San Diego    Occupy San Francisco Occupy San Luis Obispo    Occupy San Jose    Occupy Santa Rosa    Occupy Stockton    Occupy Ventura

 

6-Colorado

Occupy Boulder    Occupy Colorado Springs   Occupy Denver

 

7-Connecticut

Occupy Connecticut    Occupy Hartford  
Occupy New Haven

 

8-DC

Occupy DC    Occupy K Street

 

9-Delaware

Occupy Delaware

 

10-Florida

Occupy Daytona Beach    Occupy Florida   Occupy Ft. Lauderdale    Occupy Fort Myers    Occupy Gainesville Occupy Jacksonville    Occupy Kissimmee    Occupy Lake Worth    Occupy Miami    Occupy Ocala    Occupy Orlando    Occupy Palm Beach    Occupy Pensacola Occupy St. Petersburg    Occupy Sarasota    Occupy South Florida    Occupy Tampa    Occupy Tallahassee

 

11-Georgia

Occupy Athens    Occupy Atlanta    Occupy Columbus Occupy Macon    Occupy North Georgia   

Occupy Savannah

 

12-Hawaii

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13-Idaho

Occupy Boise    Occupy Coeur d’Alene    Occupy Idaho Falls    Occupy Moscow    Occupy Sandpoint

 

14-Illinois

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15-Indiana

Occupy Bloomington    Occupy Columbus    Occupy Evansville     Occupy Fort Wayne    Occupy Indianapolis Occupy LaFayette    Occupy Smalltown Indiana

Occupy South Bend

 

16-Iowa

Occupy Iowa    Occupy Des Moines    Occupy Iowa City Occupy Mason City

 

17-Kansas

Occupy Lawrence    Occupy Witchita

 

18-Kentucky

Occupy Berea    Occupy Bowling Green    Occupy Kentucky    Occupy Lexington    Occupy Louisville

 

19-Louisiana

Occupy New Orleans

 

20-Maine

Occupy Augusta    Occupy Maine

 

21-Maryland

Occupy Baltimore

 

22-Massachusetts

Occupy Boston    Occupy Northampton    Occupy Worcester

 

23-Michigan

Occupy Ann Arbor    Occupy Detroit    Occupy Flint Occupy Grand Rapids    Occupy Kalamazoo    Occupy Lansing    Occupy Michigan    Occupy Monroe    Occupy SE  Michigan

 

24-Minnesota

Occupy Duluth    Occupy Minneapolis    Occupy    Minnesota

 

25-Mississippi

Occupy Mississippi

 

26-Missouri

Occupy Columbia    Occupy Joplin    Occupy Kansas City    Occupy St. Louis    Occupy Springfield

 

27-Montana

Occupy Butte    Occupy Helena    Occupy Missoula Occupy Montana

 

28-Nebraska

Occupy Lincoln    Occupy Nebraska    Occupy Omaha

 

29-Nevada

Occupy Carson City    Occupy Las Vegas    Occupy Reno    Occupy Tahoe

 

30-New Hampshire

Occupy Manchester    Occupy New Hampshire

 

31-New Jersey

Occupy New Jersey    Occupy Trenton

 

32-New Mexico

Occupy Albuquerque    Occupy Carlsbad    Occupy Las Cruces    Occupy New Mexico    Occupy Roswell    Occupy Santa Fe    Occupy Taos

 

33-New York

Occupy Albany    Occupy Binghamton    Occupy Buffalo    Occupy Cortland    Occupy Hudson Valley    Occupy  Ithaca    Occupy Plattsburgh    Occupy Poughkeepsie Occupy Rochester    Occupy Saratoga Springs    Occupy Syracuse    Occupy Wall Street    Occupy Utica

 

34-North Carolina

Occupy Asheville    Occupy Boone    Occupy Chapel Hill Occupy Charlotte    Occupy Durham    Occupy Greensboro    Occupy Raleigh    Occupy Wilmington Occupy Winston Salem

 

35-North Dakota

Occupy Fargo    Occupy North Dakota

 

36-Ohio

Occupy Akron    Occupy Cincinnati    Occupy Cleveland Occupy Columbus    Occupy Dayton    Occupy Toledo Occupy Youngstown

 

37-Oklahoma

Occupy Norman    Occupy OKC    Occupy Stillwater    Occupy Tulsa

 

38-Oregon

Occupy Ashland    Occupy Bend    Occupy Cottage Grove    Occupy Eugene    Occupy Portland    Occupy Seaside Oregon    Occupy Salem

 

39-Pennsylvania

Occupy Allentown    Occupy Bethlehem/Leigh Valley Occupy Erie    Occupy Harrisburg    Occupy Lancaster Occupy    Occupy Williamsport

 

40-Rhode Island

Occupy Providence

 

41-South Carolina

Occupy Charleston    Occupy Columbia    Occupy Florence    South Dakota    Occupy Sioux Falls

 

42-Tennessee

Occupy Chattanooga    Occupy Clarksville    Occupy Johnson City    Occupy Knoxville    Occupy Memphis Occupy Nashville

 

43-Texas

Occupy Amarillo    Occupy Austin    Occupy Dallas    Occupy Denton    Occupy El Paso     Occupy Houston Occupy Marfa    Occupy McAllen    Occupy San Antonio Occupy Texarkana

 

44-Utah

Occupy Salt Lake City

 

45-Vermont

Occupy Burlington    Occupy Rutland

 

46-Virginia

Occupy Richmond    Occupy Norfolk

 

47-Washington

Occupy Bellingham    Occupy Olympia    Occupy Perth  Occupy Seattle     Occupy Spokane    Occupy Tacoma Occupy Tri-Cities    Occupy Wenatchee    Occupy Yakima

 

48-West Virginia

Occupy Charleston    Occupy Huntington    Occupy Morgantown    Occupy West Virginia    Occupy Wheeling

 

49-Wisconsin

Occupy Appleton    Occupy Green Bay    Occupy La Crosse    Occupy Madison    Occupy Milwaukee


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//www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/3449

"There are decades when nothing happens; and there are weeks when decades happen"


Anahid Hojjati

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They have asked for strikes and demonstrations. Some of them were protesting near where I was going to have lunch more than an hour ago. I started looking at their banners and this lady who was standing close to me and was  taking pictures of protesters, asked me to join them. It turns out that she was from Lawyers Guild and was documenting with pictures, etc, I guess if police brutality happened. Some buildings had their doors closed and the security guard at front let people in.


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Mike Davis on: Not Chewing Bubble Gum & The Occupy Movement!

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NO MORE BUBBLE GUM

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دوشادوش جنبش جهاني، پيش به سوي اشغال بيت رهبري

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پیام شانزدهم: از سوی کمپین به یاران و مبارزان درون مرز

آماج هایی برای پدافندهای بابکی

پس از کشتار هزاران زندانی سیاسی در سال 67 که مخفیانه و بدون "سر و صدا" صورت گرفت، و بعد از قتل های زنجیره ای که با سکوت و سازشکاری اصلاح طلبان به حاشیه رانده شد، در یورش سوم به زندانیان سیاسی که از سال هشتاد و هشت آغاز شده است، با حمــــــــــــــــاسه ی پایداری مبارزان در بند روبرو هستیم>>>

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GENERAL STRIKE & MASS DAY OF ACTION – NOVEMBER 2

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New York State of Mind (II)

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Tony Bennet just keeps getting better and better.

New York State Of Mind - Billy Joel - Tony Bennett - Live At Shea Stadium (HD)

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SeRNMxuQ60

 


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Occupy Togehter

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Please share with friends and spread the word.

 

 

Calling out to the Iranian Diaspora!

Let's add our voices to the Occupy Wall Street movement!

RAHA Iranian Feminist Collective invites individuals and groups in the Iranian diasopra to come together, occupy together.

We
build whatever we envision: if you or your group wants to perform, lead
a teach-in, bring art or political information, POST HERE so we can
coordinate!

We're not just showing our support for the movement, we ARE the movement.

Sunday, October 23, 1pm, Zuccotti Park
Meet under the red sculpture (Cedar and Broadway)

 

//www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=207819195953759

 


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اشغال وال استريت مهمترين و بزرگترين رخداد زمان ما است!

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سخنرانی نوامی کلاين درباره اشغال وال استريت

اشغال وال استريت مهمترين و بزرگترين رخداد زمان ما است!

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۱۵اکتبر، روز اعتراض جهانی توده های محروم علیه سرمایه داری

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جنبش جهانی علیه نظام سرمایه داری همچنان ادامه دارد. مردم معترضی که در میادین بیش از هزار شهر دنیا علیه سرمایه شعار می دهند، با گذشت هر روز عزم شان جزم تر و تاکتیک و روش مبارزه شان مبتکرانه تر و شعار و مطالبات شان رادیکال تر می شود>>>

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NY State of Mind

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Bruce Springsteen & Billy Joel - New York State of Mind

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZq5hy2RsvM

 

Chris Hedges in Times Square, October 15, 2011

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-1TdemR7_Q


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A musical tribute to Occupy World Movement

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Something new, something old, hope you like it.

SHOW SHOW

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAYRvZ4ZOxI&feature...

What's Going On!

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnFy1luxL0A

Celtic Tiger 

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Greedy, greedy, greedy, greedy, greedy
So greedy, greedy, greedy, greedy, greedy

Now they saw the Celtic Tiger in my home town
Brings jewels and crowns, picks you up off the ground
But the Celtic Tiger does two things
It brings you good luck or it eats you up for its supper
It’s the tale of the two cities on the shamrock shore
Please Sir can I have some more
Cos if you are poor you’ll be eaten for sure
And that’s how I know the poor have more taste than the rich
And that’s how I know the poor have more taste than the rich

Hear the Celtic Tiger roar - I want more
Hear the Celtic Tiger roar - I want more, more, more

The fastest growing inflation rate in the world,
the cost of a run down house is absurd
This isn’t any age for a low income wage
Ask anyone who’s locked in a cage
A couple with kids can’t afford a place to live
Even if they have a good job
We’re bring robbed by the builders and the fat cat government
A league of greed and they don’t even need for a thing
It’s a sin
But it’s the nature of the beast
You’d better go and find a priest and confess
Because your greed is gonna leave you soulless

Where we gonna live, what we gonna do
We’ll have to move in with the woman in the shoe
They’re driving us onto the streets
While the fat cat in government cheats, and always
gets away with his crime
A kid steals a jacket and does time
Just look at the world around you
Tell me why is there so much need?
Because of greed
So greedy, greedy, greedy, greedy, greedy

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Just look at the world around you
Tell me why is there so much need?
Because of greed


divaneh

This is just the start

by divaneh on

This movement will go much further. This was inevitable and is the second shock to the system after the London riots. Inequality has been increasing all over the world as the result of the rule of capital. Berlin wall has come down and the unchained capitalism shows its real face. This movement may not gain substantial changes but I think it will be successful in placing more control over the capital.

One interesting point that I learnt recently is that the banks were forced to separate their investment arms from their retail arms in the early 20th century after a similar crash. I suppose it is not only Iranians who are poor learners. 


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Ten Points for the Occupied Movement

by Hooshang Tarreh-Gol on

Against Wall Street’s culture of economic exploitation, environmental
degradation and human oppression we stand together to testify that
another world is possible, a decent and humane world, a democratic world
of liberty, dignity and solidarity.

//www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/3416


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Movements with a Difference

by Hooshang Tarreh-Gol on

RG jaan thanks for your kind comments. I think one essential aspect of this movement that we on Iranian Left might not be used to, and have a tendency to overlook is its Anti-Authoritarian, Horizontal, Leaderlessness (in the sense that everyone is a leader) quality.

These politically healthy aspects are indeed what has been missing from our social, political discourse for the past three decades in Iran, and what we need to study, observe and learn from.

Horizontalism:

//www.zcommunications.org/horizontalism-voice...