Thus, he charts the fateful coincidence of dynamite’s invention and the rise of Bakunin’s influence, as well as the momentary encounter between nihilism and anarchism, and their shared opposition to the more politically substantive internationalist agenda of the Communist Internationals, as well as to the greedy and punitive regimes that held sway. Anderson notes, too, that the antiauthoritarianism of anarchism, its capacity to accommodate peasants and not merely the urban proletariat, and its anticlericalism gave it special appeal in the Catholic colonies.