[Marxism] What's up the the anarchist?

[Carl Webb <carlwebb@xxxxxxxxx>]

A friend sent this to me:

Anarchists are drawn into a Rightward political vacuum, produced by a 
century of stigmatization of the Left. With no significant Left, Anarchism, 
by default, becomes the only "respectable" outlet for US radicalism. 

Anarchism is to the 80's and 90's what the New Left was to the 60's and 
70's. It is somewhat socially acceptable, due to its overlap and shading off 
into Libertarianism, which gives it the convenient cover of small business 
ideology. 

As Libertarianism explicitly draws upon the dominant US mass 
psychology of self help free enterprise, Anarchism does so implicitly. The 
former has mass appeal, while the latter's appeal seems limited to a 
youthful fringe element.

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