Basically, bunch of pro-Ukraine, pro-fascism and state dept line loving anarchists attacked an anti-war demonstration with incredibly based anti-imperialist and codepink founder Medea Benjamin.
Comments in the linked subreddit are worth reading for some highlights from the article (Trueanon is hilariously much more principled ML than deprogram sub on most days)
Archived link to article: https://archive.is/aZjzQ
People say anarchists in real life are better, it’s only the online ones who are liberals… nope. These people are total shills for the state department narrative. Totally useful tools against America’s enemies.
This is your brain on only caring about “authoritarianism” without understanding authority and letting the US state dept and bourgeois press (along with compromised anarchist media like your favorite zine courtesy of the FBI) define what authoritarian means and give you the scales of most and least authoritarian governments.
And these people are shocked when we denounce left unity. As if they did not denounce it first with violence against us.
In my experience there are 2 kinds of real-life anarchists.
One kind is unprincipled, unstudied, usually very young, very ‘punk’ and just defines itself as anarchist, because they don’t like being told what to do and gommunism 1 trillion dead. At best they just go to fascist rallies and fight with the chuds and police. Often these are the ones hell-bent on fighting other leftists and think littering, spraying, being drunk and overly sexual are some kind of revolutinary praxis. They have no clue about labour, don’t engage with unions, etc. You literally can’t work with these people, because they don’t really do any actual work. They’re dogmatic, anti-communist and contrarian as fuck for the sake of it and probably the people in OP.
Then there’s the second kind. They tend to be older, often much better read and tend to have a concept of labour and class struggle. They sometimes form their own ‘revolutionary’ unions, organize soup kitchens and similar direct action. These are the ones you can and should work with on a practical level.