The Role Of Anarchism In American Democracy

The ideology that Americas follow behind shaping movements is that they don’t agree completely with the government in power. Money is the root of all evil, even while the government is set in place to protect our democratic values; this isn’t always the case that they achieve that goal. As mentioned in the article about Anarchism the American democracy and government that we have, the system is corrupt and brought out by the wealthiest 1% of the population. This is evident through election campaigns, big business and even the media as well. However, this 1% does not represent the 1% in any way at all. In reality, this is the “democracy” we agreed to with our forefathers. According to the article, “Occupy Wall Street’s Anarchist Roots”, our government is based on a system of checks and balances.
This basically means that they created a system that deems it necessary to create a permanent body of the “rich and well-born” to check the “imprudence” of democracy. This is exactly what anarchism fights against. Anarchist understands that the democracy we live in isn’t a true democracy. Democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all eligible members. This is what the anarchist fight for. They fight for a democracy where not only does majority rule, but also the minority isn’t neglected. Anarchist in the terms of protest differs greatly from pacifism. While they ultimately have similar goals anarchists works directly against the political institution while pacifism works around it. In terms of legitimacy, anarchist acts as if those in power don’t exist. They don’t make demands because by making demands they recognize those in power. They blatantly break laws that they don’t agree