Contrary to what this movie posits, anarchy is not violence. It is not destroying The State. It is not smashing windows, pooping on cop cars, throwing Molotov cocktails, raping...what is it those things are? Antisocial idiocy.
Anarchy is not having rules imposed by leaders, but living by whatever codes you and your tribe have agreed to. It is not imposing your beliefs and preferences on others. It is most emphatically NOT what it is portrayed as in this movie.
You're giving the classical definition of anarchy. What the Anarchist movement is about is actually the polar opposite of classical anarchism. It's a neo-Communist/Socialist/Marxist/Nihilist movement. There are tons of webpages out there, so I'm not going to promote any by providing links.
shareI am anarchic, so I think I know what I'm talking about. We are far from violent. If anything, you are referring to a tiny minority.
shareOWS' sole demand was for a giant, centralized, Leftist government to enforce their authoritarian will, take money from people they didn't like and give it to them, and monopolize the means of production.
That's not "Anarchism", that's Socialism. Collectivism and Statism are incompatible with true anarchy.
OWS was not anarchist. They WERE, however, fanatically violent.
What do you mean "were?" They still exist.
shareIf they still exist in any permutation, it's pissant little pockets of bloggers and reddit posters whining and crying about how unjust the system is because they don't have a totalitarian Leftist government going around arresting/killing people they don't like and giving all their money to the OWS jackboots.
The "movement" itself fell flat on it's face two years ago. SEIU and AFL-CIo and all the other groups astrotrufing the movement gave up long ago. But that's to be expected when your "movement" has no clear goals, no realistic way of achieving what you want, and can only utilize violence and fanaticism as a means to an end.
PS; it's spelled "women".
I know. My nickname is Wild Woman, but when I tried to register that as an e-mail address all other spellings were already taken.
It sounds more like Occupy has gone to ground. That is not dead; it's just less visible.
Could this dumbass be any more incorrect?
To quote from Pam Martens' fine article in February edition of Wall Street on Parade, "In several respects, Occupy Wall Street reminds me of the feminist movement. Corporate funded media has declared the women’s rights movement dead ad nauseam for four decades — and yet it thrives and reinvents itself. Similarly, corporate funded media has eulogized Occupy Wall Street from almost the moment of its nascent birth in the Fall of 2011.
If there is a common thread connecting these movements and the dire media prognostications of their demise, it is likely that when either one advances, entrenched power — and its iron grip on the wealth of a nation — loses.
Now, similar to the early court battles for women’s rights, Occupy Wall Street has tossed aside its encampments and bullhorns and donned its legal garb and pro hac vices. Occupy Wall Street’s brain trust, Occupy the SEC, just filed a Federal lawsuit that encapsulates the crony capitalist state that passes today for democracy."
Allow me to expand on that part: In February, Occupy filed suit against every Federal regulator that resides in the pocket of Wall Street, naming, among others, Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Martin Gruenberg, Chairman of the FDIC, Elisse Walter, Chair of the SEC, Gary Gensler, Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Thomas Curry, Comptroller of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Mary Miller, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance at the Treasury, Neal Wolin, Acting Secretary of the Treasury.
Again, to quote Ms. Martens: "Occupy the SEC is serving a valiant public service in bringing this lawsuit. It explains to the court that one of the most critical components of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act that was supposed to reform Wall Street has yet to be enacted by the regulators and this is in violation of law. The key component is the Volcker Rule, named after former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker, that would prohibit most forms of trading for the house on Wall Street, known officially as proprietary trading.
The lawsuit informs the court that Dodd-Frank required that regulators adopt rules relating to this section “within nine months after the completion of a study by FSOC [Financial Stabilization Oversight Council] relating to the Volcker Rule. The FSOC completed that study in January 2011.” The complaint proceeds to explain that the legislative language “is unequivocal in setting this mandatory deadline, which the Defendants and the agencies under their control have missed.”
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2013/02/occupy-movement-files-lawsuit-against-every-federal-regulator-of-wall-street/
And, not to be overlooked by the terminally ignorant Occupy haters, two months ago in Forbes magazine was this report regarding the birth of the Occupy Money Collective:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2013/07/23/the-occupy-movement-is-launching-a-money-cooperative/
Unlike the Tea Party, which is just one hateful loudmouth after another spouting off without a single practical idea, Occupy actually pursues and creates solutions. They just don't do it for attention like the sniveling media whores of the Tea Party.
I know you'd sleep easier, "liutenantsalt" (btw, since you brought up spelling, is "liutenant" intentionally misspelled or are you just blindingly stupid?), if you could believe those scary protestors had all just gone away and left you alone with your money and your ignorance, but, sadly it's not the case.