The Importance Of The Occupy Movement

The emergence of the Occupy Movement played an essential role in clarifying the message behind the movement . What causes the Occupy movement to emerge? One of these reasons was a shift in consciousness; New Yorkers discern the growing dysfunction in American society. Many Americans were unhappy with the structure of society, which leads them to rebel against the structure that were holding them back. Even though there were many different perspective about what was dysfunctional in the american society, there was one general agreement that the emergence of popular uprising reflects profound changes in the larger society( Piven 7) . Around the same time, there was also the “Arab Spring” that was represented by several anti government

A majority of the original occupiers of Wall Street where self conscious anarchists. Anarchism holds the firm belief that relationships among people should be governed by voluntary movement ( Hammond 419). Whereas, the Occupy Movement, unlike the anarchism was not there to change the state form, it focused on building a movement instead of the meaning behind the movement. It prescribed a set of tactics within the movement itself that activists believed embodied the ideal of the future the watch to see “ ( Hammond. 293 years). It closely resembles the practice of horizontalism which is rejecting leadership and all other forms of authority ; concept related to anarchism, which the ideological influence throughout the occupy movement. The extent to which each state practice this ideology varied in different styles.The Occupy Wall Street used “ Modified Consensus”, That was radically and directly democratic mode of decision making; everyone could participate and no one could dominate (Gould-Wartofsky , 48) . This further expanded on horizontalism, where they stated that power would be distributive equal. Harvey, Gould-Wartofsky and other theorists believe that making the categories of the “1 percent” and the residual “ 99 percent” became foundational to the occupy movement and their supporters around the

The problem with horizontalism was that everyone has an equal voice, and the decision making was a challenge to the Occupy Movement progress. In the end, the occupiers were unable to settle on a single demand. People in the group interest and ideology showed major differences ( Gould-Warosky). People were skeptical due to violence and this hindering the Occupy Movement from gaining supporters. n fact, violence was expanded to included acts that were directed at properties when only property is treated as on a par with human life( Brissette 324) . With it being labeled as violence, many people hesitate in joining the movement and supporting