I may catch a sectarianism ding here, but I do want to say, I used to be an anarchist, and this isn’t really just an “online” problem. I knew a lot of people who were otherwise great, smart, well read, did really good local activism, but then suddenly would start talking like a neocon anytime AES states or the global south was brought up. I knew a guy who did awesome community gardening and anti-eviction work, but was pro-Iraq war, a trans comrade who organized a lgbt youth center who supported “humanitarian invention” in Iran.

Whether or not these people were “real” or “fake” anarchists, I met a lot of them, to the point I think they likely out number anarchists with good positions in imperialism and US adventurism, and it was a pretty big contributing factor to me moving towards becoming and ML.

Real or fake, I do think the anarchist movement should confront why these people who align with them on domestic issues but turn into Clinton style liberal hawks with regards to foreign policy as so attracted to the label.