Posted 8 years ago on May 21, 2012, 9:20 p.m. EST by Endgame (535)

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I think hardcore Anarchists absolutely are hurting this movement and holding Occupy back.

I know this movement was founded by Anarchists(even though the words "Anarchism" were never used in the beginning to advertise the movement). And the way this movement began was brilliant. A lot of people were attracted to what was being advertised about the movement and all the important issues that it thrusted into the forefront that needed to be addressed. People wanted to realistically transform the system and fix our democracy and our government.

BUT as more and more Occupiers are finding out the truth about the beliefs of the founders of the movement(Anarchists) they are finding out that the end goals of Anarchists are unrealistic. Anarchists wants complete absence of government. While the overwhelming majority of Occupiers wants to FIX government and to transform the system by getting outside money out of politics, ending the bribery in our political system, financial reform, dealing with education costs, healthcare, ETC. Big differences...

Hell most of the protesters out there don't even see themselves as Anarchists. They see themselves as people trying to fix government and our democracy. NOT destroying all forms of Hierarchy. Anarchists can only achieve their goals if there is no Hierarchy. Anarchists need the entire system to collapse before their vision can advance. It needs a lot more suffering then there is now, fixing anything through the system hurts their goal.

The irony of it all is that 99% of Occupiers want to fix the system by transforming it, but the 1% (Anarchists) don't.

And take the events of Chicago this weekend. I have very little doubt that the police and FBI are capable of framing Occupiers and attempting to make them look bad. But the reason this shady tactic works and turns the public against us is because of past actions of the extremists(Black Block, etc) of the movement. When the extremists vandalize and cause damage they do not and should not speak for the movement. So where are the Anarchists immediately coming out to call out the ones causing the nonsense?

Occupy hasn't even began to run any candidates. Not one. Anarchists believe we should NOT get involved politically. This is another unrealistic view of hard core Anarchist. If we do not do anything to affect politics in a political way we have no power! We become toothless complainers.

I honestly don't see how these huge differences of goals don't cause the movement to splinter where the large majority goes off to achieve realistic transformative goals to fix government. And where the hardcore Anarchists go there own way to attempt to achieve their goals of ending governement and hierarchy.

Your thoughts?