Occupy and Political Process Theory

[Working Class Hero]

This article in the Washington Post (a bourgeois paper, I know) talks about how Occupy shifted the discourse of wealth distribution in the US. Now, the two main Democratic presidential candidates are mimicking Occupy's rhetoric: Http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2015/07/15/occupy-wall-street-just-won/

There's a theory in social movements sociology called political process theory that states that the success or failure of social movements is mainly affected by political opportunities. For example, the hallmark of the Civil Rights movement was the Voting Rights Act.

What do you think about political process theory and this article?

[tuwix]

For now only their arguments are used in political debate. From using an argument and making it real is very far road. And as far as I know the main target of the Occupy movement was to get power from 1% end give to 99% which in fact means a direct democracy. And nobody even says about it.