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concerned with other forms of hierarchy and authority, such as found in the modern
corporation or other financial/economic institutions.
Of course, there are also all the scholars who merely get anarchism wrong. They see a
philosophy based upon chaos, violence, bombs, assassination, naiveté, and foolishness.
Many view it as all action and no theory, just something that people irrationally do
without thinking about beforehand. This is tied to my earlier argument that anarchists are
first and foremost activists, and operate on both a deep sense of theory and practicality.
Thus, it is only common sense that anarchism's theory is most commonly written by
activists and is not found in the academy. It is frequently anarchism's fellow-traveler in
revolution, Marxism, that distorts the most, asserting that anarchism is a disorganized
revolution, impossible to obtain, irrational, ill-informed, lacking in theory, too
spontaneous, and very uncontrollable. They are correct at least in the latter case.
[ Williams 40 ] [ this is a draft. do not cite. ]