WEF Protest: The Spectacle of San Francisco Resistance!

For all the whining and moaning that goes on at SF IMC about ISO and neo-Stalinist groups acting like authoritarians at demos, I wanted to comment on what I saw tonight at the anti-WEF demo. I saw repeated negotiations with the cops by supposed "demo negotiators" who assume to speak for everyone there. I saw several punky-looking people telling people to get out of lanes on the road per a request by SFPD. I saw someone yelled at for even saying "class war" instead of "NO WAR," the mantra of liberal peace groups. I didn't think anarchists were "against war" ... I thought they were against US military aggression, but not war ... after all, the infamous Spanish Anarchists were involved in a WAR, a war against fascism and capitalism and oppression. The Russian anarchists were also involved in wars. I thought anarchists and other anti-capitalists understood that class war is what we should be doing, not begging for scraps from a violent system which doesnt give a fuck about us. I was further confused when we arrived at the Bank, only to witness the unfurling of enormous American flags. I guess we will just have to depend on our European comrades to stand strong against capitalist hegemony, who understand the difference between organized resistance and being a part of a liberal, left-wing capitalist spectacle.