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It's adorable how each generation of American anarchists thinks they're the ones who will finally get it right and create a formal national (or continental) federation that will last -- and not just on paper -- for more than five years. This time there's an external threat of the meteoric rise in the visibility and homicidal capacity of right wingers and neo-fascists. As alarming as their absurd assault on the capitol building might have been, some of us actually believe that moment signified the turning point of the maddog right; from now on, the fractures that were always present will continue to fester and result in them splintering into ineffectiveness, just as they were before their champion took office four years ago. But even if the clear-headed analysts are wrong, stoking fears is probably not the best way to achieve total anarchist triumph. If y'all are so hot to go after the creeps, why not try for a central clearinghouse to keep tabs on the fash? If others are intent on riding the abolitionist train, then why not try a central clearinghouse to monitor prisoner organizing and getting some good lawyers on your team?

But deciding that all anarchists need to be totally on board with these anarchist-positive and anarchist-adjacent projects is already going the alienate those anarchists who aren't interested in them to the point where they won't be willing to sacrifice their own projects for the sake of some ethereal unity.

Y'all need to get better at learning the lessons of past failures