by Paul Cudenec, who reads the article here

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are currently reading the words of a CONSPIRACY THEORIST!

Shocking, I know, but it must be true because it has been stated as a concrete fact in the shadowy and spooky world of pseudo-anarchist thought-policing.

An anonymous 2023 article on the Montreal Counter Information website declared that I had been “actively propagating far-right conspiracy theories about Jewish bankers and trans people”.

There are two points to note here – firstly, that for these pathetic propagandists a “conspiracy theory” is always “far-right” and secondly that they always make it sound as if criticism such as mine is all about individuals (oh, the poor victims!) rather than, as is really the case, about billion-dollar businesses.

The article complained: “While Winter Oak was embroiled in some minor conflict in 2018 for defending Assadists and promoting Syria conspiracies, conspiracism was not the majority content on the site until sometime in 2020, when Cudenec seems to have gone all-in on full-throttle conspiracy mongering”.

I wonder what on earth could have happened in that particular year to have provoked that change in my emphasis?

If the authors of that article happen to be reading this (maybe as part of their job?) I would be interested in their response to my recent article ‘An A-Z of the modern mega-racket‘.

In particular I would like to know which insights in that piece count as officially authorised anarchist opinion and which they would condemn as “far-right conspiracy theories”.

It is presumably acceptable to the ideological border patrol that anarchists might express antipathy to exploitative investment, to modern wage-slavery, to repressive laws, to privatisation and to wars.

However, I imagine that I would be considered to have strayed across to the “other side” in my criticism of modern art and culture, of the reign of quantity, of vaccination and of ZIM, the zio-imperialist mafia.

But what about banking, development, education, oligarchy, road-building and the instrumentalisation of xenophobia?

What positions are anarchists “allowed” to hold on these issues before they are regarded as “People Who Are Not Comrades”, as the title of the Montreal article so communistically puts it?

The point I am making is, of course, that these attempts to delimit the scope of anarchist analysis of society are absurd.

Anarchism is the rejection of all power from above, all authority, all exploitation, all assaults on individual and communal freedom.

Any genuine anarchist should therefore be committed to investigating and exposing such authority – I would say “illicit authority”, except for the fact that anarchists regard all authority as illicit.

They should be trying to lift the lid on every kind of repressive institution and infrastructure, particularly those which have been carefully hidden from public view and ringed with taboos to frighten away anyone who does not fancy being publicly denounced by the witch-finders.

The deeper you go, the better, if you are really interested in getting to grips with the roots and nature of the system that rules our world and denies us the co-operative and decentralised freedom that anarchism calls for.

But in the mental prison within which certain interests would like to confine anarchist thinking, alarm bells go off once you start approaching issues that have been declared to be out of bounds.

Identifying, challenging and defying these blocks on our understanding and criticism – and indeed seeking to find out how and by whom they have been introduced into the supposedly free-thinking anarchist scene – should also be part of an authentic anarchist’s ongoing journey of discovery.

In other words, the anarchists who are not really anarchists are those who lack the courage and integrity to push on past all the barriers that are placed in their way to prevent them from having a full grasp of what the system is and how it works.

A real anarchist has to be a kind of conspiracy theorist, because power and authority are themselves a conspiracy.

Exposing power and challenging it are not two different and conflicting tasks – conspiracy theorism versus anarchism – but two aspects of one and the same rebellious role.

This truth even (or rather especially!) applies to the kind of “conspiracy theory” that provokes the most hysterical outrage from the thought police within and beyond anarchism – that is to say, pointing out that the world is in the grip of a judeo-supremacist organised crime network.

When you look dispassionately at what ZIM represents, you can see that it is about supremacism/racism, imperialism, militarism, exploitation, authoritarianism and environmental destruction.

Anarchism, and indeed “the left” as a whole, is against all of these. Furthermore, I would say that the vast majority of anarchists and “leftists” today are strongly opposed to genocidal zionism.

So how can it be regarded as “far-right” to oppose an entity which is responsible for so many obvious evils?

Anarchists have not always been so squeamish about facing this reality. Errico Malatesta (1853-1932), for one, was not afraid to point to the hidden power of the dynasty I call the Enemies of the People.

He wrote in L’Anarchia in 1891: “Today, government, consisting of property owners and people dependent on them, is entirely at the disposal of the owners, so much so that the richest among them disdain to take part in it. Rothschild does not need to be either a Deputy or a Minister; it suffices that Deputies and Ministers take their orders from him”.

Why can his contemporary successors not see that ZIM is merely an uncloaked version of what they have always regarded as their enemy (and termed capitalism or neoliberalism or imperialism)?

Given that nearly all of us condemning judeo-supremacism are not supremacists ourselves, but humanists opposed to any kind of ethnic or religious supremacy, what is stopping the anarchist movement across the world from getting fully on board the new coalition of resistance against the global judeo-supremacist mafia?

Resist ZIM!