I have been trying to write this for months, but the urgency sharpened recently — watching repression justified in the name of anti-imperialism, dissent dismissed as "counterrevolutionary," and loyalty to movements confused with loyalty to power. The political moment we are living through demands clarity. Across the world, authoritarianism is resurging — not only from the right, but increasingly from within spaces that call themselves left, radical, or revolutionary. That is what finally pushed this piece onto the page.
I keep asking myself how to write this without immediately being criticised by anarchists or leftists who will say this is just another liberal reflection with no real power analysis — the kind that feels good but leads nowhere near liberation.