[calibraxis]

Media employees ("journalists") claimed Occupy discredited itself. As well as those activists who think it's all about presenting a list of "demands".

But if you read analyses of people in it (take for example "The Democracy Project" by Graeber), the goal was direct action. It spawned a lot of organizing to fix problems without begging elites. Nor did they decide to become another Tea Party (flunkies to billionaires/politicians). Once they decided to do that, the state and corporate media decided it was an enemy, not a tool. Hence endlessly repeated talking points about how it "discredited itself".

[hueving]

If it's as successful as you seem to believe, what useful action resulted from it?

>But if you read analyses of people in it (take for example "The Democracy Project" by Graeber), the goal was direct action

Of course people that participated are going to claim that action was their goal. However, the fact that they had no experience organizing people (or chose not to organize people through leadership) led them absolutely nowhere.