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
