ABSTRACT
Historically, Anarchism has been the revolutionary politics of skilled artisans and farmers who do not need a boss; of workmen in dangerous occupations who learn to trust one another, and of aristocrats who can economically afford to be idealistic. Political Anarchism is rarely mentioned and never spelled out in the press and TV. West and East, journalists speak of "anarchy" to mean chaotic riot and aimless defiance of authority; or they lump together "communists and anarchists" and "bourgeois revisionists, infantile leftists and anarchists". The protesting students are Anarchist because they are in a historical situation to which Anarchism is their only possible response. In Anarchist theory, "revolution" means the moment when the structure of authority is loosed, so that free functioning can occur. As a revolutionary political method, cadre-formation connotes the development of a tightly knit conspiratorial party which eventually seizes the system of institutions and exercises a dictatorship until it transforms the majority of its own doctrine and behavior.
