by Paul Cudenec, who reads the article here

The anarchist movement of which I became part in the 1990s was very much to my liking.

It took to the streets against the globalists and their summits, it fiercely defended nature against roadbuilding and other “development” and it was defiantly opposed to the plutocratic ruling class with all its exploitation, repression and warmongering.

Anarchists expressed themselves freely, clearly, angrily and often with a sharp sense of humour.

But, progressively, all of that changed.

Opposing globalist gatherings was deemed retrograde by many, nature was increasingly regarded as a suspect reactionary construct and the emphasis shifted to “critical whiteness” and “trans rights”.

Worst of all, the joy and humour seemed to drain completely away from the movement, being replaced by the dead-eyed and narrow-minded robotic dogmatism which I had always associated with the Marxist “left”.

I began to suspect that the anarchist scene had been deliberately infiltrated and corrupted by the ruling mafia in order to disarm it as a potential source of resistance.

This was confirmed for me six or seven years ago, initially by a general anarchist failure to call out the obvious fakery of the “climate” movement and then, of course, by the appalling collaboration with the Covid manoeuvre.

I first confronted this issue in an article entitled ‘Anarchists and the Coronavirus’, published on April 3 2020, which analysed a wide range of anarchist responses to the scamdemic.

I wrote: “It seems that most fellow anarchists feel obliged to respect the prevalent social taboo. They insist that they are ‘not downplaying the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic’ and are anxious to distance themselves from the dreaded ‘conspiracy theorists'”.

I and others had already been accused of spreading “dangerous misinformation” by anarchists who nevertheless, at this stage anyway, continued to regard us as “comrades”.

By April 26 2020 the ongoing venom directed at me by so-called “anarchists” had totally confirmed what had been a somewhat tentative conclusion.

In ‘Anarchists against freedom’, I warned: “People are attaching the anarchist label, and a sort of shallow parody of anarchist ideology, to something which is not anarchism at all.

“This pseudo-anarchist thinking has not grown from anarchist philosophy and therefore can never be anything but a replica anarchism, a zombie anarchism which appears to be the real thing but lacks the anarchist soul.

“This fake anarchism is the sworn enemy of true anarchism. By stealing the body of anarchism, it banishes real anarchism from the world”.

Following this revelation, I dug deeper and in February 2021 published a very detailed exposé showing exactly how the anarchist scene had been funded and thus manipulated by globalist “philanthropists” and their impact investment industry.

I remarked: “The sterile, divisive mindset they have been spreading on behalf of their corporate paymasters should be thrown on the scrapheap of ideological history, where it belongs”.

In recent years I have often referred to my position as being organic radicalism, which is a broader philosophical concept than anarchism in that it includes non-anarchist thinkers.

But I also think it is important to maintain an understanding of authentic anarchism and for that purpose I have set up a new Substack called Real Anarchists.

Although some of my own posts will be shared on that site, the idea is not to present my particular philosophical vision – paradoxically, real anarchism could also be regarded as broader than organic radicalism!

Instead, the goal is to restore the notion of an anarchism that can embrace a wide range of perspectives while retaining an overall fundamental coherence.

This openness is central to the very character of true anarchism, which is not a set dogma but more like an existential attitude and it is this essence of anarchism which I seek to uphold.

I know full well that, historically, anarchism has not always reflected all my own beliefs – a blind faith in “science” and “progress” was very prevalent for a long time, for instance, and my interest in cultural rootedness is no doubt not shared by those anarchists who champion an internationalism that is hardly distinguishable from globalism.

But I would counter that anarchism is necessarily a call for decentralisation, not just down from the national-state level but down from that of the so-called “international community” and all its centralising infrastructure.

And if anarchists believe that societies can function perfectly well without government, that can only be because of the natural order that reigns in small and cohesive human communities.

The new blog will present both historical and contemporary anarchist content – I am not sure how it will evolve over time and I welcome any suggestions, submissions or constructive comments.

The aim is a long-term one and is not about creating some kind of new movement going by the name of “real anarchism”.

Indeed, success for the project would be that the “real” part of the term becomes redundant, because everyone now understands what actual anarchism is and is not.

The idea is to help conjure back into life the lost anarchist soul!