BY TIMOTHY BALASH
As of yet, the often dizzying banquet of liberatory thought known as
anarchism has failed to make itself heard in the wake of the collapse of
the Soviet Worker's Paradise, its most ruthless muzzler throughout a
tumultuous history. This comes as little surprise considering the last
great anarchist movement, "the most advanced model of proletarian power
ever realized,"[1] was destroyed in Spain over sixty years ago; crushed
between, on one side, a dress rehearsal for the Blitzkrieg and, on the
other, communists already well-rehearsed in the brutality of Stalin's
ongoing purges and merely flaunting their expertise in such matters. Though
a dedicated handful of writers, and an even smaller handful of activists,
have maintained something of a coherent, though highly exclusive, tradition
through years of obscurity, anarchism has, as if squirming through one of
the space/time worm-holes creating so much delight among the Art Bell
conspiratorial faithful, emerged in some unusual places. The
anarcho-capitalist is one such contemporary manifestation which,
thankfully, appears to be readily identifiable to all as an abomination
warranting little beyond repeated ridicule.
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