The question of anarchy is serious to Y. A. F. "trads" because the Libertarian anarchist position is picking up the support of most young intellectuals on the right. The anarchist appeals are obvious-their view is moral, logically consistent, and wholly defensible; in short, it "makes sense" to individualists.

THE NATIONAL Youth Alliance (NYA) has headquarters in Washington, D. C., but its public emergence occurred at UCLA. Last July 16 NYA kicked off the first of its proposed "Right Power Programs" with a gathering of 500-odd people in that school's Meyerhoff Park. Spokesmen John Hayes, campus leader, and Louis Byers, national organizer of NYA joined David McGinty, head of UCLA's White Student League (WSL) in making the following demands of the university:

The administration must restore law and order to the campus;

UCLA must continue to give credit for ROTC;

Ralph Bunche Hall must be renamed Douglas MacArthur Hall;

The sciences of eugenics, genetics, and ethnology must be added to the curriculum;

The administration must fire any teachers who encourage anarchy or violate the 14th Amendment [as it relates to the taking of property]:

SDS and BSU must be dissolved;

UCLA must terminate the high potential program which has brought so many "thugs" to campus;

Professors who downgrade the white racial contribution to civilization must be fired;

Faculty must re-establish the values of Western Civilization as the basic foundation for all students.

The tone of such far-out rightists is both ominous and self-righteous, like that of the "skinheads," a similar group of disaffected youth in Great Britain. Good Americans, suggest NYA/WSL writings, are the workers and producers in society; intellectuals are not producers, but "softeners" of those solid qualities of strength and conquest at the envisioned heart of "Western Civilization." Those who undermine this culture, NYA/WSL spokesmen feel, must be defeated by any necessary means, including violence.

Little actual violence has occurred thus far, perhaps in part because these militant rightist groups have tiny memberships; on the 30,000 student campus at UCLA, NYA/WSL membership numbers about 15. Their tactic, however, is to mirror the most rabid leftists in dogmatism, pragmatism, and self-righteousness; since they feed off these leftists as a negative mirror image, vanity may yet catalyze an explosion. The consequences could be bloody; WSL's McGinty, for example, is a member of the Iron Cross motorcycle group, and at the rally described above Mike Brown, a leader of the group, served as his bodyguard-reportedly threatening several bystanders in the process. The capacity for violence around these groups is as yet unmeasured and untested.

But the rhetoric that foments clash continues to grow, especially from NYA. The "Right Power Program" is built on four points: "(1) To oppose the use of dangerous drugs and narcotics and to run those who push them off the campus.... (2) To neutralize and overcome Black Power.... (3) To restore law and order to the campuses and to America by stamping out anarchist groups and movements, such as SDS.... (4) To bring peace to America by resisting any attempt to involve us in foreign war...." Behind this action program lurks a set of-at the least-controversial ideas.

Reading the NYA newspaper Attack!. one finds in the group's mentality an awesome witch hunt; the devil is red and black, and recognizably utopian. The witches are trose who teach that "paradise is a place where hominoids with full bellies live in a perpetual rut," devoid of "honor, loyalty, race and Western man's will to conquer or die."

Behind conquest-the proof of superiority and inferiority-is the idea of inherent inequality. "Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free," is the motto of Attack! A pin worn by NYA members bears the symbol of mathematical inequality, an equals sign with a slash mark across it. The teaching of eugenics, NYA authors feel, will help students learn of white supremacy; and that recognition, their reasoning goes, will give whites the will power to assert their superiority.

"Our civilization," writes the editor of Attack!, "is founded and rests on violence. Every civilization is directly descended from a conquest; and if it were not for the constant promise of retaliatory violence from the law, me would live every moment at the utter mercy of criminals and thugs."

"Violence," he continues, "is bad only when it is used in an anti-social way. When it is used to maintain law and order... violence is a positive good." He goes on to reason that if the government won't enforce the law, then the people "not only have the right but the obligation to enforce the law themselves!" This vigilante mentality rejects efforts to work with the courts, as many moderate conservatives are attempting; the courts, NYA declares, "are PACKED with liberal judges" who are assumed to be unwilling or unable to deal with the evil in our society.

NYA is symptomatic of a reactionary element in America, young and old. How much it will be fed by public reaction to radical leftist violence remains to be seen, but the potential is there and it is dangerous.