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How Rage Against the Machine Shut Down U.S. Capitalism In Henry David Thoreau’s “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, Thoreau defines civil disobedience as an act of willful resistance, achieved by not obeying the laws one views as hypocritical. Thoreau achieved this by refusing to pay taxes, which Thoreau was jailed for, because he did not support paying the government to fund things against his morals, such as slavery. Many believers of the Everyman movement use protest to speak out against economic inequality. The Everyman movement is a movement, as definition, “by the middle and lower classes to bring to light the oppression brought upon them by the wealthiest 1%, and the privileges [the megarich] receive from the government, such as bailouts and tax exemption”(Lembitz 26). Although the Everyman movement was most active in the later half of 2012 in protest of the Wall Street bailout, one of the earliest displays of “Everyman” was in 2000 by a rap-metal band. Rage Against the Machine is a band from Los Angeles who is known for their political activism throughout the late-90s and …show more content…
Because of his jailing, Thoreau decided to write the essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”. One of Thoreau’s most prominent encouragements against immorality was his call to break an unjust government through direct action: “but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law.”(Thoreau). This states that when someone sees an issue with the daily workings of society, “those that oppose [an immoral law] should speak and act out against it”(Thoreau). This is exactly what RATM did. They used their followers and the mass media to have their cause recognized by a large group of Americans, who continue their fight against the ultra rich even
How Rage Against the Machine Shut Down U.S. Capitalism In Henry David Thoreau’s “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, Thoreau defines civil disobedience as an act of willful resistance, achieved by not obeying the laws one views as hypocritical. Thoreau achieved this by refusing to pay taxes, which Thoreau was jailed for, because he did not support paying the government to fund things against his morals, such as slavery. Many believers of the Everyman movement use protest to speak out against economic inequality. The Everyman movement is a movement, as definition, “by the middle and lower classes to bring to light the oppression brought upon them by the wealthiest 1%, and the privileges [the megarich] receive from the government, such as bailouts and tax exemption”(Lembitz 26). Although the Everyman movement was most active in the later half of 2012 in protest of the Wall Street bailout, one of the earliest displays of “Everyman” was in 2000 by a rap-metal band. Rage Against the Machine is a band from Los Angeles who is known for their political activism throughout the late-90s and …show more content…
Because of his jailing, Thoreau decided to write the essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”. One of Thoreau’s most prominent encouragements against immorality was his call to break an unjust government through direct action: “but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law.”(Thoreau). This states that when someone sees an issue with the daily workings of society, “those that oppose [an immoral law] should speak and act out against it”(Thoreau). This is exactly what RATM did. They used their followers and the mass media to have their cause recognized by a large group of Americans, who continue their fight against the ultra rich even