>>15048425OWS was always going to fail.
First of all, it was not a class movement. It was a reaction to a sequence of events- primarily the bailouts, and, more broadly, most of what occurred in the second half of the Bush II Administration and the first year of Obama. It was also a grievance campaign: in this respect it had more in common with peasants petitioning the King to redress the errors of feudal Lords than a class movement, which is intrinsically violent, and exclusionary, at least at first, of petit-bourgeois elements.
The ratcheting up of idpol is only loosely connected to the collapse of OWS - it has a lot more to do with a burgeoning black petit-bourgeois that has been making strong gains in the last two decades finally flexing its political muscle. This has social knock-on effects that are not necessarily planned or coordinated, such as the trans rights movement finally blooming.
What will make change will be working class people Googling the home addresses of CEOs and big investors and attacking them where they live to the point that there is an escalation in overt violence.
