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I think it's lazy and stupid to reduce it to "leads to fascism", although in a handful of instances, that has of course proven to be true? It's an insignificant number of extreme cases and of course, violent revolutionary politics have all sorts of icky overlaps, especially back in the day.

The more interesting thing for me, is a general problem of how you can motivate much, if any collective action with the overwhelming majority of people operating from a pretty nihilistic, hyperindividualistic place, consciously or otherwise. This isn't specific to the anarchist position at all. It's just the ziet geist and literally everyone in the "developed world" is looking at some version of this same problem.