The Role Of Anarchism In Hollywood

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Anarchy is a very misunderstood political ideology in this day and age. Anarchism is a Greek word that means the absence of authority or without rulers (Romkey, 2018). It is not a term that means disgruntled citizens and complete and utter chaos which is what most people think when they hear the word anarchism. They key goal of anarchism is really to abolish the state. It sees the state as only wanting one thing: power (Romkey, 2018). In society today, the word anarchism would bring up movies such as the Purge when in reality it is just a fictional movie made to entertain and scare people.
Most people do not see anarchism for what it really is, a social movement. Sure, it does not look like the other social movement that one has probably heard of, but it definitely is. Anarchy is an advocate for the free love movement. Anarchism believes that the state should be …show more content…

The Purge is a movie where every year there is one day where for 11 hours everything is legal, even murdering someone. People think that because there is no authority within the 11 hours that this is what people will be like if they lived in a world where laws like killing someone were not controlled by the state. What people fail to realize is that capitalism is not just going to fall. There is going to be a revolution that takes place which will also probably take some time as mentioned before with Bakunin. Meaning, the world is not just one day going to go from being capitalist to no state. Anarchism believes that human nature is innocent, but corruptible which in turn means that many of the bad things societies have experienced is because the state has shaped people this way (Romkey, 2018). Anarchists like Paul Goodman advocated for children to move beyond the buildings to learn and to look beyond teachers as the only educators. He was also against compulsory attendance as he believed

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