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I think more than anything what I have learned this year as I got more plugged into anarchist organising (before everything fell apart and I had to spend autumn/winter in pure survival mode) is that a lot of people (esp men/white ppl) who spend all their time reading the works of dead white wifebeaters have incredible analysis and knowledge of macropolitics and history... and understand absolutely nothing about how power works on a micro/interpersonal/non-state level. People who can give you detailed accounts of the years of lead, can critique authoritarian marxism with incredible precision, know everyone (white and male) in the scene, and organise skillfully and with great effectiveness... Who then turn around and have no understanding of disability politics, of covid, of misogyny, of accessibility. Who make statements so reactionary and ignorant about domestic violence, about accountability, about communal care, about division of labour that you'd be forgiven for thinking you were talking to a fascist-leaning little-england nimby. Pure "i wish the big power structures could be defeated but I have no desire to interrogate how my family/community relationships are the fertile soil for those power structures to resurrect and grow every time we defeat them" energy. Real "fascism is when a guy tells me, the main character, what to do"/"i don't wanna clean my room, mom" anarchism.