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I didn't like the "We are the 99%." slogan. Traditionally in the US, protest movements have been asserting their right to correct an injustice. In this case, it
by KKKKkkkk1 6y ago
I didn't like the "We are the 99%." slogan. Traditionally in the US, protest movements have been asserting their right to correct an injustice. In this case, it was more of an assertion of power and a threat to impose the majority's will on the minority. That was in breaking with the culture of liberal democracy, which the anarchist authors of that slogan were not big fans of.
- Ar-Curunir 6y agoLmao but it’s okay for the 1% to impose their unjustified authority on everyone else? (Also your criticism that the slogan is merely just changing the balance of power is founded in an ignorance of anarchism. Anarchism does not aim to redistribute power, it aims to eliminate it. As long as power exists, it will be abused.)
- KKKKkkkk1 6y agoI don't understand. Are you disputing my statement that anarchists are not fans of liberal democracy?
- ashtonkem 6y agoAnarchists as a general rule aren’t a big fan of grabbing power for anyone, 99% or 1%.
- Ar-Curunir 6y agoNo, you are misunderstanding the slogan. The slogan is saying that there is a rich 1% that holds the majority of decision making power in today’s world. It is up to the rest of the 99% to unite and recognize this tyranny, and to then wrestle away that power. There is no mention of the 99% abusing that power instead, and given that DG was an anarchist, He presumably instead meant that that power should be destroyed.
- incompatible 6y ago100% sharing power would be the anarchist ideal. But promoting a member of the currently powerless 99% to a powerful position wouldn't help at all.
- Ar-Curunir 6y agoSure, but if everyone has power, then no one has power over anybody else, which is sort of the opposite eof what the OP was implying was the goal behind the Occupy slogan
- jessaustin 6y agoOh yes we forgot that all the cities are burning because of all the anarchists. As always, invoking fears of actually-exceedingly-rare anarchists is the last life preserver that totalitarian regimes drowning in their own monstrous contradictions attempt to clutch. Is "liberal democracy" in evidence anywhere?
- jrochkind1 6y agoMuch like "Western civilization", it sounds like it would be a good idea.
- manu3000 6y ago> to impose the majority's will on the minority. this is what democracy is about