COMMENTARY

Peter Burgess

What is Occupy Wall Street (and how will it be remembered)?

Whether you agree or like the Occupy movement, it grew suddenly and has been sustained longer than was first imagined. Now that the Occupy movement is shutting down for the winter, what will it be remembered for? What remains confusing (and even frustrating) for some people is that nobody knows what occupiers really want. Even the occupiers themselves seem to have different reasons for occupying, making people think that they're just being immature. But is it really a case of immaturity, or the prototype of a new type of movement--a 21st-century movement?