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"Actually, what Komboa Ervin proposes here makes a lot of sense. It's clearly an immediate practical response to the unendurable suffering that vast numbers of people have to endure in this declining and despicable social order, and maybe it can play some very real positive role in the rise of a new mass revolutionary movement."

This is exactly the problem. Anarchism makes no sense in this current society, and it shouldn't make sense either. There is nothing wrong with people forming groups to help people practically. But why call yourself an anarchist then? What differentiates anarchists from other do-gooders? Because we really believe it, where others lie? What Komba-Ervin says makes no sense to me, or the fact that you talk about 'vast numbers of people enduring this social order.' Am I not one of the those faceless masses of people - I am no different from them and share with the fact that I am powerless. Anarchists who talk as if they will create a mass revolutionary movement by practically helping people get by seems to be very similar to many other small groups of people that have decided to take it upon themselves to displace their own need for change onto people they have never met.