You have to be incredibly naive to buy into this fantasy of the left suddenly abandoning "culture/race/etc". Leftoids tried to join the /wsb discord (presumably to inspire the workers) but left because it was too edgy and racist.
OWS was driven by immiseration and precarity among the aspiring functionaries, students, and provincial gentry of the (failing) "knowledge economy". That's why they all went into progressive stack and identity patronage politics. It served their class ends.
Once the mob of T-T-T-ToXiC WhITE MaLES enter the arena, though, their methods and political ethos will be quite different. There won't be much common ground between them and professional leftists because the leftists are their class enemies anyways.
The OWS "terminator" was broken for a reason and won't - shouldn't - be reassembled. It shouldn't be called a terminator either, unless being overweight, neurotic and queer is now what defines being a killer robot.
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Seriouspost: remember when I told you guys that from now on, the only real "praxis" of the left would be to sit on the bleachers, yelling down at the players that they weren't playing correctly?
This gamestop thing is just the latest proof of this trend.
This trend isn't going to stop either. You'll have the theorycels who've read Adorno or Gouldner or whoever who'll seethe over the fact that the left is being ignored by history and events. They'll moan about how nothing anyone does will ever change anything.
But that's just 100% projection. In a situation of political decay, even fairly small pebbles can overturn the apple cart. It just won't be leftist pebbles from here on out. Their energy is completely spent. They truly do belong on the "dustbin of history" today.