Wolf imposed a policy list on a movement that refused one

Evidence

For better or worse, the Occupiers had been very clear that the movement did not have a policy agenda—two or three political demands lawmakers could meet that would send them all home satisfied. Wolf insisted this was not true: she claimed the movement actually had specific demands and that she, improbably, had figured them out. “I found out what it was that OWS actually wanted,” she wrote in The Guardian, explaining, “I began soliciting online ‘What is it you want?’ answers” from self-identified Occupy activists. Disregarding the movement’s commitment to radical, participatory democracy, Wolf then turned the results of her haphazard surveying into a short list of demands and took it upon herself to deliver it to New York governor Andrew Cuomo at a black-tie event organized by Huffington Post, where she and Cuomo were both guests. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 50

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to Milgrom’s institutional analysis and the worker-driven logic elsewhere — Klein contrasts grassroots refusal of hierarchy with Wolf’s celebrity intermediation.