> And it also served to indoctrinate a generation of us that Anarchism as a social movement was nothing more than blowing up shit; illegal and violent by definition.
Anarchism has earned this reputation for a reason, and it's definitely not
a conspiracy.
There are different movements/leanings of Anarchism, and some of them are outright mainstream in multiple countries (e.g. Anarcho-Capitalism is very popular in the US).
Those folks also believe in blowing things up and burning down government buildings. They just believe that capitalism will be sustainable in the absence of a dominant power.
Anarchism has earned this reputation for a reason, and it's definitely not a conspiracy.