Manufacturing Consent

That's the problem with a movement which has no leader. Everyone who picks up the logo can say things for it. And a lot of "Anarchists" have started saying they hecking love regime change. Are they mostly bots? Probably. But a few real figures have disappointed as well.

Partially true, but all the anarchist platforms (both on and offline) are mired in a "debate" about whether it would be better for Iran if the current regime fell without any established left power to take the reins and that in itself is a failure. Up until the Iraq war there was ZERO debate about whether a foreign government should fall or not. The movement's members knew that their job is to stop the US/NATO warmachine and acted accordingly. Black blocs were tearing shit apart in major western cities and sabotage was a daily occurrence. Where is that kind of energy in today's anarchist movement? Literally every time the US openly tries to bring chaos to a country the same handwringing bs is echoed all the fucking time from "anarchists" who then have absolute zero accountability when the regime whose overthrowing they cheered for "because it's an opening to bring anarchy" NEVER gets swapped to an anarchist commune but usually an even worse, even more exploitative government that starts clearing space with leftist movements.

So while i might agree to some degree to your point about MLs, the article is completely right about those "anarchists" whose opinion gets paraded in mainstream media.