Yet the collapse was widespread and revealing: many anarchists were more committed to social belonging within the liberal cultural class than to anarchism itself. The liberal state in Aotearoa has become adept at performing moral virtue while intensifying its structural violence. The Spanish CNT did not believe emancipation required alliances with bourgeois parties, until internal liberal capture weakened them with disastrous consequences. If anarchism is to reclaim itself from liberal capture, it must reaffirm some basic, uncompromising truths. The liberal discourse infecting contemporary anarchism ultimately reduces to one pitiful sentence:“Anarchism can’t do anything, so anarchists should help the liberals.”