Anarchy Or Chaos

Discredited and hunted everywhere on the continent of Europe, anarchism survived mainly in England and the United States and, in a peculiarly syndicalist form, in Sweden. It had, except in Sweden, virtually ceased to be a working class movement; its members were almost entirely lower middle class young people, with a few refugees from the continent, a few garrulous veterans from Kropotkin's day, and a fringe of intellectuals - our own fellow travelers - like Herbert Read, Alex Comfort and the painters Augustus John and Jankel Adler. Only in Scotland, among the Clydeside shipworkers, did a genuine working class group exist, and they, rather surprisingly, were individualist followers of Max Stirner