>American leftists are often anti-statist, reflecting the
>decentralized structure of American polity; it seems to me that
>anti-statism of many American leftists should be read as an
>expression of political "sour grapes," so to speak.
Nice theory except the left anti-state movement is many, many times stronger in Europe then it is in the US. There are considerably more anarchists in a single organisation (CGT union - 45,000 members) in Spain there there are anarchists in the entire N.American continent.
Altogether your looking at a couple of orders of magnitude in terms of anarchists alone when you compare the US and Europe. And then there are the various anti-state marxists.
The anglo part of your theory makes even less sense as the anarchist movement in Britain is probably the weakest in Europe (and not the strongest)!
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