A few days ago, several hundred people were arrested and many injured in clashes between riot police and anti-capitalism protesters in Germany.

The clashes broke out after the protesters marched on the European Central Bank headquarters to demand an end to capitalism and the dominance of banks. The protesters also denounced the “neo-liberal” crisis management of their country and the wider European Union. They blamed Europe’s capitalist system for the debt crisis in the continent. The protests can be likened to, if not inspired by, New York’s Occupy Wall Street movement, which also has a similar cryptic grasp on reality.

And over on the OWS website, they describe themselves as “a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions.” They go on to say they “don’t need Wall Street and…don’t need politicians to build a better society.”

For anyone following these kids, it comes as no surprise that they define themselves as what they are not instead of what they are. It reminds of the saying “any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.”

Which brings us to the the inevitable question: what’s your solution? Having followed the OWS movement and spoken with several followers, it would seem that there is none. The movement kind of falls into a line of a 1960s song that says “I’d love to change the world but I don’t know what to do…”

But even more disturbingly than the fact that they do not have any realistic solutions is that they are adamant about moving society away from what they deem as evil: free markets and capitalism. With all due respect to them, they hardly represent 99% of society, as they claim. Yet they are hell-bent about moving what President Nixon called “the silent majority” away from what it wants (free markets) and into some great unknown.

Replacing the alleged tyranny of free markets with the tyranny of chaos is not a noble a cause, as the OWS kids will eventually realize.