reaction to age of rage

I think the current form of white supremacy is different from any before in world history. Most Fascist regimens are brought about due to desperation and because a country had no one else to turn. Hitler gained power because he was able to provide a scapegoat for the poverty that had engulfed his nation. The Jews had always been a target of persecution, they were a sensible target for his genocide campaign. Do today's youth need a scapegoat? No, while cities in Europe during the 1930's were saturated with the stink of desperation, today in America, this feeling does not exist. One of the primary reasons why a fascist dictator was able to take control has been eliminated. Instead of being desperate, the reasons why today's suburban youth are turning to ideas of white supremacy is out of boredom and ignorance. Teens today have grown tired of hearing about how "evil" white people are for committing racist acts in the past. They are bored of hearing about bad things their ancestors had done years ago. And in some areas, they simply have not been taught any better than to not listen to the skewed ideas of white supremacists. Because they are ignorant, thy look for a simple answer to their problems. Why do I get bad grades? Why am I being blamed for things my ancestors did? And the people who provide the easiest answers are today's Hitlers. The skinheads give the easiest answer as to the question of - who can I blame for my problems? This is one similarity between modern teen hate crimes and the fascist regimens of the 1930's. Both Hitler and the skinhead down the street give the simplest solution to peoples problems. They both provide a scapegoat, whether its the Jews, or gays, or Mexicans.
I have seen this kind of ignorance first hand. ON a teen tour around the country a few years ago. I was staying in a hotel and the mid-west (i don't remember exactly where) when a kid about my age overheard a conversation I was having about religion with a friend. He overheard me saying something about my religion, and that I was Jewish. At first I laughed when he asked me where I hid my horns, but I stopped laughing when he tried to have me thrown out of the hotel. Luckily his parents were around and brought him to his senses and this was as far as it got, but in places in America, where kids are not being taught enough about other cultures and lifestyles, this is the kind of thing that happens. A kid will turn to the easiest answer to what he doesn't know about. If he has never before seen a Jew, then he will listen to what the skinhead from his town told him about them. And thus, he will create an image of a money hoarding devil in his mind and over time, this image can develop into a violent tendency towards the Jewish people.

goldman - anarchism

Emma Goldman gives a direct definition of Anarchism in her essay "Anarchism: What it really stands for." She states that Anarchy is "The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary." I have two problems with this. The first is that this is as much of a condemnation of other forms of government as it is a definition of Anarchism. No where in her essay is there any proof that all other forms of government "rest on violence." There was just too much one sidedness for me to take Goldman's paper seriously. Secondly, there are governments and subordination for a reason. If a society could function properly without outside control, then there would be no government today. But no matter which society you look at, some kind of government has been set up so that people cannot simply do whatever they want. When cooperation between people is necessary, so is law that governs the cooperation.
She makes the state sound like an evil power hungry monster who only wants to take all control for itself and force all of its subjects into slavery. "Even a flock of sheep would resist the chicanery of the State, if it were not for the corruptive, tyrannical and oppressive methods it employs to serve its purposes." What these tyrannical and oppressive methods are, only god seems to know. Goldman tells about how society is a colorless, spiritless, taxpaying machine, but does she ever tell us what would change if all government were to be eradicated? No, from the way she makes it sound, I feel like she only wrote this because she doesn't like paying her taxes.