The actual composition of American anarchism was as splintered as American social democracy—one can even suggest that it is meaningless to talk of Anarchism as counterposed to Social-Democracy in the period, as they produce a coherent left continuum.



The obvious way to get a minimally "anarchist" situation in the area of the United States is through the IWW. The problem is that the same impulses in Social-Democracy and _Anarchism_ itself that lead to statist politics in the Russian Empire, and Germany, and United Kingdom, also lead to statist politics in the United States. DeLeonism is the most obvious example of this. Similarly the Bolshevik faction of the RSDLP was miniscule in the Russian Empire. In Germany—during the revolution—the KAPD AAUD(A) and AAUD(E) were massive, the KAPD itself being larger than the KPD. Yet in all three instances an anti-democratic micro-faction won out.



Even without a Russian Revolution resulting in insanely statist and functionally anti-workers democracy social democrats taking power, Fordism and Taylorism will corrupt any genuine workers movement in the United States. This includes an IWW that has survived the repression of the late teens and early twenties as the only thing going in town. The Union may never become as corrupt as the CPUSA, but it is certainly going to be more centralised and serious than it was even historically in this period of social repression. Many of those who joined the CPUSA because it was statist and social democratic, are going to join the IWW if the CPUSA doesn't exist.



Is this "Anarchism"? Was the IWW ever "anarchism" ever? They're certainly more in favour of workers democracy than the CPUSA were. But they're not isolated like Goldman etal.



Would a very Wobbly USA where the Democrats don't go New Deal Keynsian, some kind of failed opportunist "Labour-Progressive" party starts splitting the electorate in the 1930s, a massive number of railway, manufacturing and docks workers are being shot in the early 1940s, leading to the Great MacArthur Mutiny of 1947 and the Second Civil War fit your criteria of "anarchist"?



yours,

Sam R.