“Anarchist” Youth?
Blithering Bunny (aka Scott Campbell) points out rather reasonably that people who favor an international socialist state aren’t, um, “left-wing anarchists.” Calling them “anarchists” is as silly as calling people “right-wing anarchists” when they make alliances with right-wing nationalists and favor national socialist states that restrict entry and call for “physical expulsion” of classes of persons.
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It’s unclear that the fools rioting at the G8 meetings have any consistent political philosophy at all — maybe they’d best be characterized as de facto nihilists…although “wealthy spoiled brats” probably fits better.
“Wealthy spoiled brats” sounds about right. I can have respect for Chomsky’s so-called “libertarian socialism” if only because it has some semblance of intellectual consistency to it. But this isn’t the case.
It is a good question: what is their motivation? It seems that, in addition to those we’ve dubbed “wealthy spoiled brats,” there are those who feel resentment towards perceived elites making decisions in opposition to their desires. I’m just speculating, of course, but that was one of the motivations that drove some French voters to reject the EU constitution.
Concertmaster “Save the world with a sound” Geldof, eloquent as always, seems to be in agreement with us on this; he called the self-styled anarchists “idiots.”
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