The gathering of Jacobin writers and friends near the Occupied Wall Street site was made a bit smaller by the fact that half of us got arrested. I did not. I was too busy thinking up acronyms for the new Trotskyist sect I’m forming. Two members so far, three factions.

• BREAKING: Salman Rushdie declares a fatwa against finance capital.

• Astra Taylor and Mark Greif visit the Zuccotti Soviet.

• The proletariat is coming. But do they know how to use Twitter?

• Jacobin blogger Malcolm Harris quoted in the Guardian: back the fuck up.

• I clamber, in pride, upon Brooklyn Bridge.

• Doug Henwood, Corey Robin and the best interview you’ll listen to this year.

• And here’s Robin guest-posting over at Konczal’s blog.

• Jodi Dean on the legacy of the New Left.

• Sarah Leonard in Dissent. Solid piece on the cultural commons. Behind a subscriber firewall though, which makes me giggle. I know, it doesn’t take much.

• Caption from our strung out eXiled Online friends: “MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: WHITE LIBERALS DISILLUSIONED WITH OBAMA ARE RACISTS . . . CLEARLY, MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY IS ENGAGING IN CODED ANTI-SEMITISM IN ATTACKING ‘WHITE LIBERALS’ WOULDN’T YOU SAY, H’M?”

• The Beatles vs. Radiohead.

• Blast from the past: Mario Savio, Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964.