Anarchism resurges whenever great-power war becomes unthinkable

Evidence

In Graeber’s essay, he offered a novel explanation for the resurgence of anarchist politics. It was the end of the Soviet Union, yes—but not the collapse of the officially Marxist-Leninist states. Anarchists could never be very good at war, he said, but they could flourish in peace: “The moment the Cold War ended, and war between industrialized powers once again became unthinkable, anarchism reappeared just where it had been at the end of the nineteenth century, as an international movement at the very center of the revolutionary left.” — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 131

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely novel structural explanation tying anarchism’s historical appearances to the absence of interstate war — resists one-sentence summary.
• XREF: connects to: Institutions once deemed inevitable became unthinkable through political struggle — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 57; Anarchism is only plausible if a community withdraws from the world economy — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1095; Hegemony operates by making ideological alternatives unthinkable — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 337

Broader Connections

• Hegemony operates by making ideological alternatives unthinkable #complicates (0.82) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 337
• Institutions once deemed inevitable became unthinkable through political struggle #expands (0.78) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 57
• Anarchism is only plausible if a community withdraws from the world economy #complicates (0.72) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1095