Hi Darren, I'm the author of the piece, and I actually agree with you here. I've written about the left's bizarre defences of various dictatorships, e.g.: http://novaramedia.com/2016/09/25/seizing-power-leninism-anarchism-and-the-view-from-hotel-continental/So when I argued for an alt-left, I certainly didn't mean to propose the kind of tactics we're both very much against.