I’m not an anarchist but pretending anarchists aren’t trying to materially improve conditions is ridiculous.
In America, it's easy to get confused by the bourgeois understanding of freedom - to bully and extort people of lower class than you - with the anarchist understanding of freedom - to retaliate against the bureaucratic means by which bourgeois power is exerted over us. This is particularly true, when the person expressing anarchist principles is relatively young and from a nominally wealthy family.
Rebelling against parental conservatism is a gateway to rebellion against a broader social stigmatization of economic liberation. But it often gets portrayed as immaturity in public media and dismissed as "something you'll grow out of" by older peers who are higher up the economic ladder and no longer subject to the abuses casually inflicted on young people.
In America, it's easy to get confused by the bourgeois understanding of freedom - to bully and extort people of lower class than you - with the anarchist understanding of freedom - to retaliate against the bureaucratic means by which bourgeois power is exerted over us. This is particularly true, when the person expressing anarchist principles is relatively young and from a nominally wealthy family.
Rebelling against parental conservatism is a gateway to rebellion against a broader social stigmatization of economic liberation. But it often gets portrayed as immaturity in public media and dismissed as "something you'll grow out of" by older peers who are higher up the economic ladder and no longer subject to the abuses casually inflicted on young people.