"Oh no they're feeding people we don't like on land they don't pay our protection racket for, and they self-organized to do it without using coercive hierarchies! Quick, get 'em!"
"Oh no they're feeding people we don't like on land they don't pay our protection racket for, and they self-organized to do it without using coercive hierarchies! Quick, get 'em!"
Let me revise that, states began to hate anarchists in the current way as soon as (a) states and anarchists existed in the current way (b) anarchists seemed to be a legitimate threat to states. Nowadays they're not, I think, but the bomb-tossing past of anarchism is a great pretext so they're never gonna give it up.
Diggers were cool