This one is fun.

We’re going to start with things I hate: the current trend for insurrectionists to basically say everyone who isn’t an insurrectionist sucks. The lovely little rants pop up on anarchistnews.org and infoshop.org all the time. There’s a lovely (read: annoying) one up right now, With a Kiss of Sin. The premise? Insurrectionists have always been the majority of anarchists, that everyone who isn’t an anarchist is an anarcho-liberal, that anarcho-liberals are dangerously taking over the anarchist milieu, and, here’s the kicker, anarcho-liberals are stupid, like celibate people.

Many if not most anarchists in history have been insurrectionaries—believing that it is a futile waste of an individuals’ life, or the lives of a whole group, to dedicate themselves to pondering, planning, expecting, or waiting for a revolution, much less an anarchist revolution, much less a successful one. Another trend, historically very small but seemingly prevalent in today’s anarchist milieu, balks at any suggestion of militancy or conflict, seeking to simply prod society in libertarian directions until its institutions are transformed…. a life spent planning, expecting, waiting for the revolution (or ‘social change’) is bound to be deeply dissatisfying, like a life of pent-up desire shrouded in celibacy.

First of all, anarchists have always been of different mindsets. Note that the first person to call themself an anarchist, Proudhon, was a mutualist, and not a revolutionary. Insurrectionists have always been a trend within anarchism, and note that even propaganda by the deed didn’t always just mean blowing shit up. Second of all, I’m sorry, but there are people who are quite happy being celibate and are pleased to deny themselves their desires (or who simply don’t desire the same crap you do)! Sigh. I can’t wait till this storm of nonsense goes away. “Orgies of destruction” my fucking ass. You can’t throw a rock through a social relation.

Yet I’m still not opposed to people who fight, including violently, against systems of oppression. I’m not against insurrection, I just don’t see this false divide that people are claiming.

Things I Love: people who pwn this nonsense. Most of the comments on these articles are all “yeah, right on, I would totally date you.” (For reals, that’s what they say sometimes). But there are gems:

what a boring article it sets up a completely delusional dichotomy and then writes a big dumb article based on two wrongfully represented “aspects” of the “anarchist millieu”. it criticizes “western radicalism” but boring regurgitated IA bla bla bla like this is exactly what helps make anarchism so boring and eye stabbingly annoying

but anyways i figured out how so many of them keep getting written. basically you use [madlibs website] and fill in the blanks with a bunch boring words and viola
heres one i got:

One day while I was insurrectioning in the hide-out a vast totality fell through the roof. It immediately jumped on the chair and knocked over the network of domination. Then it ran out the door into the anarchistnews.org and autonomous self organization a insurgent off the table. It then knocked a glass of gasoline off the coffee table. After 38 minutes of chasing the totality through the house I finally caught it and put it outside. It quickly climbed the nearest desires.

And then there was Abrahadabra, perhaps the wisest piece written on the current trends in anarchism. Excerpt:

When activism died, it took with it the anarchistic outgrowth that it had birthed. There are still some people holding signs on street corners. There are still some people breaking windows. Surely, both sides believe that if they do it for long enough, something will happen.