Quote Originally Posted by sbskico1
Very few educated people take anarchism seriously.
Even if that were the case, so what? In 1700 very few educated people took representative democracy seriously. In 1850 very few educated people took the theory of evolution seriously. An idea's merit is not based on how many people take it seriously. It is based on how true the idea is.
Many could not even define the word.
The word is quite easy to define: anarchy is simply the absence of rulers (rulers being people who enforce their wills upon others by means of threats or violence) and power hierarchies. Anarchism is the promotion of such a state of affairs, and opposition to hierarchical/authoritarian ideologies as capitalism, state, theism, sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. I am certain that the vast majority of anarchists would agree with that definition.
Berkman got want he deserved. My grant grandfather arrived at about the same time and started working(he was 14) in the coal mines of Penn. to help support his family. Berkman wanted to start trouble.
Berkman didn't want to "start trouble" just for the sake of starting trouble. He wanted to change social affairs because he perceived them as incredibly unjust.
Many Americans expect a free ride. America is the greatest country in the history of man, because of the opportunities for advancements.
Oh, I guess I was just mistaken when I thought there was a growing gap between the rich and the poor. Man, and to think all those economic statistics I studied showed that social mobility is an extreme rarity. I guess they were just evil terrorist lies. I'm sorry. I love America. *vomits*