Anarchism, the Creed That Won’t Stay Dead. ‘The protests have often been condemned in the mainstream

news media as imbecilic and chaotic, all action and no

theory. But that is also an anarchist trait. Its adherents have

long been dismissed as uneducated and unwashed.

Anarchism’s most memorable slogan, coined by Enrico

Malatesta of Italy, is “propaganda by deed.”

“With the decline of socialism, you have seen anarchism go

through a revival as an easy way to oppose global

capitalism,” said Paul Avrich, a leading historian of anarchism

who teaches at Queens College in New York.’ New York Times