20 February 2014, The Tablet

Thank You, Anarchy: notes from the Occupy Apocalypse

by Nathan Schneider

Rebel spirit

 
Reviewed by: Theo Hobson University of California Press, 175pp, £16.95Tablet bookshop price £15.30             Tel 01420 592974The Occupy Wall Street movement remains difficult to assess, over two years on. On one level, it was just an expression of extreme left-wing rhetoric about the need for a new social order; the airing of the same old half-truth that capitalism and war are evils we must urgently oppose. And of course it was too radical, and disorganised, to become a lasting political force. And yet it resists such easy dismissal. For rather than just saying something, it did something, it was something: a small, messy glimpse of the new social order it spoke of. It was an impressive act of utopian imagining &nda
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