Commies: Is Anarchism Left, Right, or Just Jewish? part 1

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My first exploration into Radosh's book is related to his childhood vision of his anarchist uncle, who he romanticizes here relative to his communist parents. That leads me down the path from the predominantly-Jewish sister revolutionary movements in 19th century Russia to the break between them post-revolution, to Stalin's split with the Jews at the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel in the late '40s, and the resulting split with Soviet communism of Jewish American left radicals in the '50s, and finally the rise of the new right Jewish politics starting with the 1967 Six Day War. All this was concurrent with the US rise of right-wing anarcho-libertarianism driven in part by Jewish figures like Ayn Rand and Murray Rothbard. So what is right-wing anarchism? I pose that question using the ubiquitous James Corbett, declared anarcho-voluntaryist, criticizing the personification of left-wing anarchism, the anarcho-syndicalist Gnome Chomsky.

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