TOTW: Persistence or Purity? The Mirror of Non-State Power
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What does it say about anarchism that it so often chooses immediacy, aversion to form, and radical transparency—does it desire to win, or merely to remain pure while disappearing?
Zeal for insurrection burns bright and dies young.
However, if there is anything to be learned from formations like Hezbollah or the Houthis, it is not their ideology but their refusal of immediacy—their stubborn commitment to duration.
As they did not erupt fully formed, they sedimented. Layer by layer, year by year, they became difficult to uproot.