Two years? Try 40 or more years. Modern Anarchists got their start in the 1970’s fight against logging in Oregon and Washington. This guy is old enough to have been with the originals. They have always been violent.
One loon even tried to bomb a gasoline tanker truck on the edge of a poor neighborhood in Eugene! A neighborhood where some anarchists lived! Yes, I used to know who some of them were. One of the more sensible types was even a freeper for a few years.
I never understood so-called anarchists who want to impose a Soviet style communist state. Unless they believe they can make a perfect communist society where the state “withers away.” But from what little I have seen of them they all seem to want a strongly authoritarian government that will control every aspect of your life.