Quote Originally Posted by tokosan
thank you, Max. Anarchy is the product of spoiled children discontent at thier cushy life.
I'll have you know that I am not a "spoiled child", and at no point in my life has my lifestyle been "cushy". I come from a lower class family, where money has always been a problem. Anarchism has historically been the ideological product of the poor. While it is true that many middle-class kids have used it as an empty symbol of rebellion, those who actually study the idea and actively promote its philosophical principles are generally not of that type. No major anarchist thinker has come from the bourgeois classes (except Peter Kropotkin, who was born a prince, but refused the title and lived in voluntary poverty) for the very reason that it is anti-capitalist at its core.

Anarchism is not the product of "cushy lives". If our lives were so cushy, there would be nothing to change. But we see capitalist corporations destroying grain to artificially inflate prices while millions of Africans starve. We see billionaires spending their days on the golf courses, while Third World children toil away in their sweatshops making their luxury just to be able to eat. We see capitalist elites declaring war on each other and sending the poor workers of the world to do the fighting for them. And we seek to correct these injustices.