No matter how some individuals might act, it's hard to say that the kind of anti-authoritarian critique anarchism presents will die, esp. as long as there are unjust power relations between men and women, humans and state, people and private power, between folks of different cultures & races, etc. Over the years I've come to see anarchism as an anti-authoritarian methodology, not an out-of-the-box system -- a methodology, paraphrasing Chomsky, that basically looks at a given power relation and asks if there is legitimacy to it; if not, it should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.
Maybe people will call that kind of anti-authoritarian critique something else over time, instead of using the provocative term "anarchism," but it's hard to imagine this perspective disappearing. Esp. any time soon.
-B.
bhandari at berkeley.edu wrote:
"Since there is discussion of the death of anarchism, perhaps this would be the time to remember Carrá's great painting The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli. Carrá's political trajectory does not diminish the greatness of the painting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Carrà"