As Leninism continues to spiral down the flushing toilet of history, anarchistic practices flourish in a variety of forms, many of them being practiced by people who would be surprised - even shocked - to hear the @ word used in connection with them. Transition Towns is an example that comes to mind, where both the planning and the work in done by self-managing groups at the grassroots. Not only do anarchists not need to impose their utopia on the working class by force, they don't even need to to have direct contact with people for practices compatible with their theory to flourish.

This is not because anarchist have posession of *the secret*, the perfect ideology coded into the very DNA of the working class. Rather it's because anarchist aspire to view themselves as a tendancy of the working class struggle, not it's leaders in waiting. They regularly revise their theory in response to the practical experiences of others in the class. Leninists, on the other hand, seem to have been preaching from the same bibles for a hundred years. They are like a less successful version of the hare krishnas, whose movement is only about 40 years old but is much bigger than all the mutally-antagonistic Leninist sects around the world put together.

As republicans tend to say about monarchists, for every one of them that dies, ten of us are born. Arguments like this are only useful in sharpening our critical claws for the real challenge of taking on the champions of the free market state in its various forms - the only kind that still stands to be smashed.