Anarcho-Bicyclist Conference Manchester April 2011

100% agree, it was hilarious to watch the various anarchists on the recent student fees protests, a little like seeing a group of slightly confused vegans on an EDL march.

I also agree that anarchism seems to attract edgy socialists who think anarchism is just some sort of hardcore anti-authoritarian idea that might sit well with their more radical socialist mores

I would say that is exactly the aim (rather that it 'resulting' in laissez faire capitalism).

(well perhaps for anarco-primitivism, they will just end up eating each other's shit)

Exactly. It is the anti-authoritarian side that they love but they are seemingly unaware of the kind of control and power required to carry off their socialist/communist views. And yes it is the aim really. Finally someone else who actually understands the concept.

Much of what we call anarchism is based upon anarcho-communism. Anarcho communists played major roles in both the Russian Revolution and the Spanish Civil War. In both cases the Marxist Leninists sought to liquidate them as soon as their purpose was achieved.

Don't stamp anarcho communists with the failures of Marxist Leninism.

Good book on the subject is Emma Goldman's account of her two years in post revolutionary soviet union and her growing disillusionment with the sovirets. That and anything by Orwell concerning the Spanish Civil War.

Many totalitarianists use design to sell their intellectually bankrupt ideas. Much as Coca Cola and McDonalds do to sell their revolting products.

The term 'anarcho-communists' is an oxymoron. No possible form of communism could be implemented without massive state powers and wide scale supervision of citizens. How exactly does that come under any kind of anarchist ideals.

They may have wanted to destroy the state as it was at the time but they wanted to create another, even more powerful. That is not is not anarchy that is just a rebellion/rebolution for their own state control.