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thanks, a23, for linking this. even though this rhyd character isn't nearly as scurrilous as other finger-wagging moralists like bookchin or mckay (or any of the others), his lament -- exactly like all the others -- rings hollow. he's grumpy about what he experienced, and rather than looking at the (inter)personal failings of the various actors, instead finds the antecedents for those unhappy experiences in the philosophy those actors pretend to understand. the unselfreflective conformist nature of cliques and subcultures completely escapes him -- even as some folks could just as easily find fault with rhyd's meandering condemnations within the incoherent frameworks of marxism and paganism...

anyway, i'm glad you enumerated the vastly distinctive quality of international anarchist projects that all remain focused on non-hierarchical initiative and longevity as well as the underground influence of anarchist theory and practice among the nominally non-anarchist.