Paul Goodman, on why you are an anarchist.

"In both Europe and America, the confusion of alienated youth shows up in their self-contradictory amalgam of anarchist and Leninist thoughts and tactics, often within the same group and in the same action. In my biased opinion, their frank and clear insights and their spontaneous gut-feelings are anarchist. They do not lose the woods for the trees, they feel where the shoe pinches, they have a quick and naive indignation and nausea, and they want freedom. What they really hate is not their countries, neither repressive communism nor piggish capitalism, but how Modern Times have gone awry, the ubiquitous abuse of technology and administration, and the hypocritical distortion of great ideals. But their alienation is Leninist, bent on seizing Power. Having little world for them­selves, they have no patience for growth; inevitably frustrated, they get quickly angry; they want their turn on top in the Power struc­ture, which is all they know; they think of using their youthful solidarity and fun-and-games ingenuity to make a putsch."