Yeah honestly I think anarchism is itself a very useful ideology for the status quo. It is the release valve for radicalism in a way that does not build class power or class consciousness. Merely gets people killed and arrested.
as unfortunate as it is there is a reason the FBI specifically chose anarchism as the ideology to label their anti-communist papers with. they identified that it as an ideology had the most potential to disrupt organizing within the left
[ID: Screenshot from a CIA internal document, which says:
"It is felt that the value of the publication could be enhanced and reach wider circulation if it were not so political as to be tied to a dogma such as the line of MAO or CHE GUEVARA. It is believed that these views could be expressed but the publisher and the writers should be strictly anarchist. The anarchist position could take any direction, such as an attack on Vietnam policies as well as an attack on the Soviets in Czechoslovakia.
It is believed that the anarchists point of view is the most disruptive element in the New Left and should be capitalized on in the most confusing ways.
It is felt that the newsletter should also cover vigorously such aspects of the New Left as underground cinema, music, sex, dope, humor and so on. These items undoubtedly would increase reader interest, at the same time offending those who monitor the activities of these papers." End ID]
