Do you understand why Occupy was infiltrated and broken up?

[Savannahmann]

97. History begs to differ

The French Revolution, The various Irish rebellions which led to their freedom (excepting North Ireland of course). Anarchism as you describe it, a gathering of people with grievances, some real, some imagined, some lonely, is how everything always starts. The American Revolution didn't begin when a majority of the people woke up on July 4th 1776 and decided they'd had enough. It was building for years, some say decades. Do you think all those who overthrew Batista in Cuba had a unified set of goals? I'm sure that everyone who overthrew the Shah of Iran in 1979 were of a like mind and all had agreed ahead of time on the future shape of their nation.

No, it was a group of people, who were joined by other groups, all of which had a target they were unified upon with their grievances, if not their solutions. The Constitution took eleven years to get right. It took two more to get it accepted by all the former colonies. The Revolutionary War was over years before, but through the anarchism, long discussion, long periods of thought, compromise, and finally agreement.

Revolutions are not begun with a fixed destination in mind. Only that the current situation will continue no longer. The wrongs, real and perceived, have become intolerable. What comes after is almost never considered while the people are fighting to end the abuses. Those that ended the French Monarchy were probably unaware of what the future Government of France would look like. The Peasants who stormed the streets probably had no idea that the Czar would be replaced by a Premier and a Politburo. They just knew that the current system was going to end, or they would die trying.