because there are just way more leftists in general, including anarchists.
Maybe it also has something to do with the generation that wasn't raised during Cold War growing up. It's easier to become an ML when you don't associate hammer and sickle with the people who are going to evaporate you and everyone you've even know any moment now.
or maybe it has something to do with the fact that every institution has failed and betrayed us, every assurance of a future has been thrown in our faces, and we know that capitalism is the enemy, because there is no other excuse?
I know I've been an anarchist (or something like it and far less articulate) since before I knew arithmetic.
Maybe it also has something to do with the generation that wasn't raised during Cold War growing up. It's easier to become an ML when you don't associate hammer and sickle with the people who are going to evaporate you and everyone you've even know any moment now.
Ironically I think this reasoning is exactly why anarchism is the main sect of leftists in the west (America specifically)
or maybe it has something to do with the fact that every institution has failed and betrayed us, every assurance of a future has been thrown in our faces, and we know that capitalism is the enemy, because there is no other excuse?
I know I've been an anarchist (or something like it and far less articulate) since before I knew arithmetic.