An excellent summary of anarchists, past and present.
Summary: Today’s violence from islamic extremists has many similarities to the anarchists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Using standard police and intelligence methods, Western governmens defeated the anarchists without massive restrictions on civil liberties and military operations. Post-9/11 history suggests that we can successfully cope with Islamic extremists using similar methods.
Contents
- Introduction
- Then and now: “For jihadist, read anarchist”
- About the anarchist violence
- List of attacks by anarchists
- For more information
(1) Introduction
The violence of anarchists is largely forgotten, as seen in this quote from Wikipedia:
Some revolutionaries of this time encouraged acts of violence such as sabotage or even assassination of heads of state to further spark a revolution. However, these actions were regarded by many anarchists as counter-productive or ineffective.
This is grossly misleading, the only mention of violence in the Wikipedia entry. A more accurate historical viewpoint is this comment by Stefan at Matthew Yglesias blog:
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Nov 26, 2014 @ 12:37:19
Heck, we anarchists are now pretty well pacified and integrated into normal life.
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Nov 26, 2014 @ 12:53:57
Funnily enough, left-wing anarchist tend to be of the bomb throwing type or complete pacifists, with little in between.
Right-wing anarchists tend to be couch potatoes.
Remember a podcast of Rothbard talking about the fall of Berlin wall. He said the best place to watch a revolution is at home on television.
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