Joe Biden’s new anti-terrorism initiative classifies “anarchist violent extremists” that “oppose all forms of capitalism, corporate globalization, and governing institutions, which are perceived as harmful to society” as “domestic violent extremists.” pic.twitter.com/GKmsQsGBaA— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) June 18, 2021
Might depend really on where you live. Most leftist types I've met in real life either announce their tendency all over themselves (clothes/tattooes/etc) or they just don't fall into one particular camp or another. The "none/all of the above" category is the most common I've encountered. Probably because there are hardly any leftist types where I live. I also met a whole lot of self-identified anarchists through Food not Bombs, and theyre super nice people, but often incoherent in their ideology or actually just liberals. The ML types I've met are rarer than self-identified anarchists, but yeah the anarchists were often all over the place in terms of ideology, theory, organizing, etc. I mean even talking about quantity is weird because to me it's comparing like 6 people to 14 people.
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Might depend really on where you live. Most leftist types I've met in real life either announce their tendency all over themselves (clothes/tattooes/etc) or they just don't fall into one particular camp or another. The "none/all of the above" category is the most common I've encountered. Probably because there are hardly any leftist types where I live. I also met a whole lot of self-identified anarchists through Food not Bombs, and theyre super nice people, but often incoherent in their ideology or actually just liberals. The ML types I've met are rarer than self-identified anarchists, but yeah the anarchists were often all over the place in terms of ideology, theory, organizing, etc. I mean even talking about quantity is weird because to me it's comparing like 6 people to 14 people.
I think the sentiment leans anarchist but, like most Americans, there isn't a ton of cohesive ideology behind it
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Oh, definitely more, but not "all that many" in the sense that it's not like they're a major presence as opposed to MLs. Both are still very fringe.
I've never met an anarchist IRL and my buddy in the SRA says that they're more of a solid minority than anything. But also it might be regional.
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I think this might be why this thread seems confused about numbers, becuase it's so regional and concentrated
It can also be confusing because a lot of MLs are abolitionists in the US, so they seem like anarchists at first glance