This is very hexbear doctrinaire of me to say, but there’s a meaningful distinction to be made between anarchist activists and online “anarchists” who just parrot stupid liberal talking points while being into communes.
Yes, you’re right. The last time I heard open Nazi apologia in person it was from an anarchist (the time before that it was a libertarian, before that a literal neo-nazi, and that’s it). There’s a reason I said it was “doctrinaire hexbear” because, like a lot of hexbear doctrine, it’s a myth that is at best useful as a heuristic (or just useful for moderation).
But think of it this way, on the internet it’s most anarchists that are anarcho-bidenists and offline it’s only maybe half in the first world and less than half in most other places.
Stalin was basically correct, I just take the extremely condescending attitude that if we play nice many of the anarchists will learn better, because “anarchism” is a much more accessible ideology in the first world than ML, and not by accident . Being a jerk about it doesn’t do anything useful except alienate the people who think explicit ideological incoherence is a virtue, which isn’t a group even worth fighting most of the time.
