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Carlos says:

April 22, 2011 at 11:56 pm

These fools aren’t anarchists, they’re socialists frustrated that they’re not part of the elitist inner circle. Nothing more, nothing less.

Of course, after their rampage they went to their abodes provided efficiently by a capitalist system, turned on their lights provided by an efficient capitalist system, and turned on their computers (probably bought with either stolen money, money from mommy and/or daddy, or money provided by the all-wise nanny seeking to make all life bow and worship it), yet another product of an efficient capitalist system.

What a bunch of pig brains.
ORPO1 says:

April 23, 2011 at 2:25 am

If I would have caught them, I would have commenced fire. Seattle used to be a good place for the most part.
DavidD says:

April 23, 2011 at 4:02 pm

So can the police track them from the website and arrest them?
David Yaanon says:

April 23, 2011 at 5:40 pm

@Carlos: As it turns out, they are both anarchists and socialists — that is, resisting both big government and big business. Most people who call themselves “anarchists” are referring to “anarcho-communism”.

@ORPO1: They damaged only material things, and yet you are willing to “commence fire”? At one point I thought this nation is based on Christian morals, and then I read comments like this…
captaingrumpy says:

April 23, 2011 at 6:12 pm

These are the scum that the Dems keep alive with welfare.Because they don’t have to work for their money ,they don’t care about other people.If everyone did a little in their community,it would fix the problem and make them part of it.
I volunteer at the Fire station,three times a week to help out.
Carlos says:

April 23, 2011 at 10:20 pm

In my mind, David, an anarchist cannot any more be a socialist than a Christian can – those are mutually exclusive terms.

I stand by my earlier assessment, that they are simply socialists frustrated that they’re not part of the (to be) ruling socialist elite.
David Yaanon says:

April 24, 2011 at 9:55 pm

Carlos,

In fact, there are plenty of people who are all three! For example, the author Leo Tolstoy was a anarchist, Christian, and socialist. Regarding political philosophy, what would you call someone who believed that private property is neither natural nor beneficial to society (a la Rousseau), and that hierarchical government (as opposed to direct democracy) tends toward tyranny? Among political theorists, such a person would typically be called a “social anarchist”, or anarcho-communist.

Also, it could be said that Jesus was the first socialist. This is not a “revisionist” interpretation: the early church had an extremely socialist sentiment. St. Thomas Aquinas, saw himself as greatly deviating from church tradition for attempting to reconcile “secular” private property with religion (see his “question” on theft)! Relatedly, who here in America is honestly not guilty of disobeying Jesus’ instructions to the “rich young man”?

Happy Easter, he is risen. :)

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