There is much to agree with here. The 1% would clearly welcome any opportunity to tar the occupy movement with this brush. And there is little doubt that this lunatic fringe is deeply compromised by infiltration.
And yet we should be cautious about throwing the anarchist baby out with the Black Bloc bathwater. The very heart of the Occupy movement is an anarchist sensibility that refuses to institutionalize in order to fit more comfortably into the mainstream. David Graeber in particular has spoken eloquently and at length on this movement as a new political ethos that rejects the institutional norms of politics as usual.
Non-violent resistance and civil disobedience is and must remain the very foundation of this movement or all hope really is lost. And that means rejecting all tactics such as the Black Bloc that preach a mindless politics of hate and destruction. But it also means resisting the much more alluring siren call of institutional normalcy.
The form of this movement is its message. This is the very difficult path that the real (as opposed to the sanitized and airbrushed) MLK walked to such great effect. Let us hope that this wonderful movement is able to continue on this very narrow and difficult path.
