Why No Demands?

Regarding the Demand that the OWSers issue Demands:

We know what we need to do. But how? One thing is for sure: Old revolutionary models, with their old vocabulary and often alien origins, are not and can never be 100 percent applicable to the state of our nation in our times.

We’re not even sure America as a nation-state can or should survive. Looking to cut and paste old ideologies—communism, socialism, anarchism, libertarianism, Ruby Ridge–style right-wing survivalism—into our near future is doomed to failure. Revolutionary goals will develop organically after revolution has begun, as those who seek to replace the failed state argue and fight and float ideas among themselves and the broader public at large.

—from The Anti-American Manifesto, by Ted Rall (2010)