The promotion of 'work reform' is not what the author is describing as sanewashing. It's the co-option of a more radical movement, followed by an explaining awa

The promotion of 'work reform' is not what the author is describing as sanewashing. It's the co-option of a more radical movement, followed by an explaining away of the radical parts of that movement to make it mainstream-acceptable. As someone who is sympathetic to anarchist positions while being temperamentally a reformist I can see the merit in both positions. But if I held the radical one and saw its slogans appropriated just as it had begun to get traction I'd be cross too, I think.