This is what Gary Macfarlane wrote in Socialist Worker on 13 August
‘Karl Marx was exactly right when he talked about expropriating the expropriators, taking back what they have taken from us. That’s what looting by poor working class people represents and in that sense it is a deeply political act.’
This is what Brian Robertson wrote in Socialist Review in September
‘Part of the reason for this explosion is the relative weakness of the left and working class organisation, which can provide a focus for people's anger.’
So one week it is in fact the expropriation of the expropriators and a deeply political act, and the next it is a product of the weakness of the left (I suppose a scurrilous anarchist might say that it is not until the left is weak that the masses can arise, but that’s not Robertson’s view, I think).
And let’s not forget Richard Seymour’s own adolescent spasm: ‘The intention has been to show that the party of order can keep control throughout the coming battles. I hope, with every fibre in my being, that they cannot.’ (to which one would have to ask, why did you not join in these battles against the party of order, Richard?)