Occupy the Anarchy

The similar feature of the Occupy Wall St. movement and the Tent City movement in Israel is that while both demand changes, but refuse to engage in politics in order to actually change something:
"But the marches, sit-ins and general assemblies that Occupiers plan to hold near the halls of power are as close as they will officially get to Capitol Hill. The movement doesn’t have ambitions for higher office in 2012. No one is dreaming of a Democratic Occupy caucus to match the House Republicans’ tea party group.

Occupy exists outside politics on purpose. Its decision-making processes are meant as a rebuke to the electoral system, in which both parties, activists say, are influenced by lobbying and corporate cash."

My comment:
The cited article attempts to justify such a strategy. I think that the explanation is simpler: in order to participate in elections, the OWS/Tent City would have to i) formulate clear demands and ii) defend the rationality of these demands against the criticism. The first would likely demonstrate that the unity of the protests is a myth - they are composed of people with very different wishes and views on what exactly needs to be changed. The second would probably demonstrate that many of the propositions by the protesters are either unrealistic or simply antithetical to democratic society, i.e. communist or anarchist. In fact, the second paragraph of the passage quoted demonstrates exactly such anarchist views.

Ironically, the 99% would be unlikely to win 99% of the votes!