The enjoyment of destroying for oneself and other people…

A leader writer wrote in the leader “Lessons from a demonstration” today about a demonstration here in Sweden against the bombings of Gaza by the Israelis as follows in my a little free translation:

“The tragic thing is the tail (train) of so called autonomous anarchists, masked and violent, that is becoming a real burden both for the left and for the right /…/ and for the whole democracy – not to talk about how they are blackening the anarchism’s great tradition of thoughts. Their record during this decade so far is frightening.

For example they contributed to the destruction of parts of the credibility for the Attac-movement and the last years this ‘movement’ [the autonomous anarchists] is well on the road to transforming the country’s right-populists to martyrs, as when they are walking at the head of sabotaging the meetings the Sweden-democrats have the right holding.

It is high time scolding these autonomous, whom by the way not at all are autonomous but are living in symbiosis with the police and right extremes, and to establish that they are cowards and that they are destroying for a serious left. /…/

Another lesson from this demonstration the minister of education Jan Björklund gave us. At all costs he wants to see anti-Semitic motives in the criticism of the occupation politics of Israel and in the organizations now demonstrating against the [Davis Cup tennis-] match [between Sweden and Israel]./…/

In reality Björklund is making a conflict ethnic that ought to be seen exclusively in terms of international law and human rights.

In this way he contributes to the destruction of the democracy’s publicity.”

Spontaneously this leader and earlier thoughts on similar issues gave me these thoughts:

“The enjoyment of destroying. Voting for politicians and parties pursuing a policy which in fact treats oneself unfairly. A pleasure or enjoyment in this, are they feeling?

A form of sadomasochism or self destructiveness?”

From where does this come? From nowhere?

No, I don’t think so. It comes from (probably extremely) cruel treatment of those persons when they were kids, by their parents. Humiliation of the child.

But these experiences are no excuse for their behavior today.