Word: anarchistic
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...faceless conformity lies a paralyzing fear. Fear of change. Fear of humor. And fear of disturbing their comfortable, fuzzy thinking. I, too, deplore the self-indulgent hedonism and head-in-the-sand anarchy gaining ground among youth today. But an ostrich is an ostrich, whether a soft-brained young anarchist or a soft-living non-think suburbanite. These birds may look different. They may even fight each other. But they are different only like male and female. And together they will breed destruction...
...convulsion was part carnival, part anarchist spree, increasingly spurred on by Communists-but, more than anything, it was a spontaneous spark of national temper. Rebellious students, struggling only two weeks ago to prepare for the exams that would determine their place in French society, bent their energies to completely paralyzing France's universities and tying up many lower schools as well. Inspired by the students' example and glad of the chance to vent their own grievances, striking workers seized scores of factories in the worst epidemic of wildcat work stoppages since the days of Leon Blum...
Hundreds of flags flapped from balconies: black anarchist, red hammer-and-sickle, blue and red Viet Cong, and red, white and blue Cuban. French "Red Guards" strung up posters proclaiming such sentiments as "It's forbidden to forbid" and "Humanity will not be happy until the last capitalist is hanged with the entrails of the last bureaucrat." The stone bust of Auguste Comte, the 19th century French philosopher-reformer who coined the term sociology, was draped with a red bandanna; a red flag adorned the statue of Louis Pasteur. Inside, in jampacked auditoriums, thousands applauded allright debates that ranged...
Among the student strike leaders last week, few were more in evidence than a chubby, confident sociology major named Daniel Cohn-Bendit, 23, a self-styled anarchist who says he aims for "the suppression of capitalist society." At Nanterre, it was "Danny the Red" who stirred up so much trouble among its 12,000 students that authorities panicked and closed the place down. That lifted Cohn-Bendit from obscurity to notoriety, and all week long he moved from rally to rally, haranguing the Left Bank students as they groped for a sense of direction in their revolt against the government...
...anarchy, but its basic tenets inspire many of their leaders. Germany's "Red Rudi" Dutschke and France's "Red Danny" Cohn-Bendit openly espouse anarchy. "In theory," says West German Political Scientist Wolfgang Abendroth, "the students are a species of Marxists, but in practice they are anarchists." Not since the anarchist surge in the Spanish Civil War has the Western world seen a movement so enthusiastically devoted to the destruction of law, order and society in the name of unlimited individual freedom...