Very interesting thread... Probably 90% of the bands against "THE SYSTEM" are not experts in politics, sociology, history, and economics (there are a few that are) but still, those people choose not to be conformist, they realize we live by no means in a perfect world, they see what's wrong in the world, and they empathize with the "loosers side".
People nowadays don't realize what crude capitalism REALLY means, you only have to go a hundred years back, blatant exploitation by those who acquired their capital through violence and extortion... people literally dying an their work....
The fact most people in developed countries don't see is that this is happening right now in half of the world... the mighty and wealthy exploiting the rest for and only for their own benefit (and I don't mean Bill Gates, I mean the Warlords in Liberia or Ruanda, the narcos in Colombia).
In developed countries the pressure made by organized socialism has HUGELY "humanized" capitalism, don't believe it would have happened anyway we lived thousands of years with oppression being the rule, again, in developed countries we live in an exceptional age!!! but at what cost, maybe extreme poverty has mostly been eradicated but in part thanks to the exploitation of less developed countries (see where pretroleum comes from and the degree of wellbeing of the common people in those countries, who get the benefits, the ruling nobles/capitalists).
Anarchism, as deeply flawed at a "macro" level as it is, is the incarnation of the values of the Enlightenment (humanism, personal freedom, deeply rooted democracy)... those that sell anarchism simply as destruction and being against everything are not true anarchists to me.
English is not my first language, I wish I made at least some sense.
Cheers
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