Bookforum - Social contract theory for Occupiers

Another collection of links related to the #Occupy movement from the folks at Bookforum.

Social contract theory for Occupiers

Feb 1 2012  

3:00PM

• From New Left Project, an interview with Erik Olin Wright on Occupy Wall Street and transformational strategy. 
• Eric Johnson on how right-wing libertarians, John Birchers and conspiracy freaks are trying to hijack the Occupy Movement. 
• Smack in the middle of the holidays, on a Wednesday night in very late December, about 150 people — philosophy professors and graduate students — gathered in a hotel conference room in Washington, DC, for a panel called, “Thinking Occupation: Philosophers Respond to Occupy Wall Street”. 
• The forgotten prophets of the Occupiers: A fascinating Canadian book urges "political action for the 99%" — it was written in 1943. 
• C. S. Herrman on social contract theory for Occupiers: what law, culture and history tell us. 
• Reza Fiyouzat submits to the Occupy movement the idea of "Direct Representation for Taxation". 
• From Socialist Viewpoint, two issues on Occupy Wall Street. 
• From Ship of Fools, what would Jesus occupy? 
• A look at what lies behind the Occupy phenomenon, what may lie ahead, and what the recent spate of protests across the political spectrum portends for the republic.