ABSTRACT
In order to be a democratic movement representing equality and justice, the movement of 'the 99%' had to include many different politics: anti-capitalism and environmentalism, sure, but it also had to collectively address histories of structural privilege. This chapter takes seriously Badiou's (2012) assertion that the question of politics par excellence is one of organisation. When the Occupy movement attempted to translate its democratic and egalitarian aims into practical questions of everyday practice. The principles which guided its organisational practice were therefore intertwined with the future alternative society that its members wanted to enact into being, one in which there would be no exclusion, hierarchy, inequality, or oppression. However, the chapter demonstrates, this attempt to bring about the desired change proved incredibly difficult, as wider normative distributions not only persisted within the movement. But were often overlooked and rendered unaccountable because of the idea that their space was 'autonomous' and 'outside' of such structures.
