Its funny to me that they could think anarchists are infiltrating their ranks and not that being exposed to the reality of the US imperial war machine is turning people into anarchists.
This has always been one of the weird things about anti-communist or anti-anarchist paranoia: it must be that someone is seducing or brainwashing us! No one would ever adopt radical politics because they're legitimately grieved about the state of things...
At least it's good that they are spooked about anarchist infiltration.
Its funny to me that they could think anarchists are infiltrating their ranks and not that being exposed to the reality of the US imperial war machine is turning people into anarchists.
This has always been one of the weird things about anti-communist or anti-anarchist paranoia: it must be that someone is seducing or brainwashing us! No one would ever adopt radical politics because they're legitimately grieved about the state of things...
It's as ancient as "those other Greeks are making our children soft & lazy".
OG brain-cleaning makes a comeback