April 1918: The Judeo-Bolesheviks crush the Anarchists
Jose Nino has just published three articles on TOO about the great French anarchists of the 19th century, highlighting the very virulent anti-Semitism common to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Charles Fourier and Alphonse Tousenel, an anti-Semitism they shared with the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin.
Jose Nino also recalls the falling out between Proudhon and Marx.
It is then interesting to see how this ideological confrontation ended at the time of the Judeo-Bolshevik revolution of 1917. In short, our 19th-century anarchists didn’t realize how right they were about the Jews (according to Proudhon: wicked, bilious, envious, bitter, etc., etc.)
While the anarchists believed that the Russian Revolution would allow them to realize their utopias based on the creation of self-contained cells, established on the principle of the associative contract, they began to realize that the Bolsheviks were working more in favor of a crypto-Judaism than the well-understood interests of the Russian people.
In Moscow as in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), Russian anarchists requisitioned several buildings to promote their activities.
Lev Tcherny, the well-known Russian anarchist, was appointed secretary of the House of Anarchists, where he gave several lectures which Gerard Shelley, a lucid witness to the Russian Revolution, attended in April 1918.
At the last of these conferences, Lev Cherny declared that Marxism, the matrix of Bolshevism, did not really correspond to the aspirations of the Russian people, and that the Bolsheviks were not sincere socialists or communists, but rather disguised Jews working in favor of the interests of Judaism.
Lev Tcherny divided these Jews into three main categories: first, the financiers, who were involved in the murky waters of the Second International; second, the Zionists, whose colonialist objectives were perfectly known and displayed; and finally, the Jewish Bund, which represented the least avowable interests of the ambitions of Judaism in Russia.
According to the speaker, the Bolsheviks saw the international proletariat as essentially malleable masses who, if the intelligentsia were destroyed everywhere, would find themselves at the mercy of Jewish predators.
The event in question had the following extraordinary consequences: on the very night of the day of this last conference, the Bolsheviks attacked all the anarchist centers with cannons, cavalry and machine guns, both in Moscow and in Petrograd or elsewhere, and massacred all the men who fell into their hands, with the exception of Lev Cherny who, at the time, managed to escape them.
But this was only a respite: captured by the Cheka, Lev Cherny was executed without trial in September 1921.
René-Louis Berclaz
Reference
Gerard Shelley, The Cause of World Unrest, London, 1920, <heritage-history.com> p. 61.
Courrier du Continent No 652, septembre 2023
Thanks and wow. The depths of jewish evil seems bottomless. The people ‘out there’ have no clue either.
Yes and Yes-
We all know that ‘the slave trade’ (Ships that brought Africans to America) was jewish, but i didnt know slave trading was historically jewish. The History of Antisemitism Ryssen discusses it in depth, among other things
And absolutely right, people have ZERO clue.
Alexander Berkman, Fanya Baron and many other anarchists in Europe and America were Jews. The Bolsheviks killed all sorts of opponents with different politics, including Jews. In general, anarchism was a threat, often violent, to civilized society. Sergei Nechaev was not Jewish but his Revolutionary Catechism which influenced Lenin as well as his opponents should open eyes. So too the Wikipedia article on the Siege of Sidney Street, one of whose East End anarchists joined the Soviet secret police and was later executed by them. Rum scum, the lot of them.
Jews were involved in Fascism too. A movement merely possessing Jewish intellectuals doesn’t instantly discredit the entire thing.
@ LL
In Italy, not for long. Gentile was a Gentile. Preziosi and Landra more important than the Jewish ex-servicemen.
As for Jews and anarchism, the online search is extensive.
Joseph Cohen’s “The Jewish Anarchist Movement in America” may be a good place to start for Americans whose world is just the USA.
Was Yidi a yid?
a Swiss reaction:
“The anarchists of Saint-Imier (Jura) are practically well-established and are not demonized in French-speaking Switzerland, where they play the role of ideological opponents, while remaining within the bounds of the system, which lends credence to the thesis of pluralism of ideas in a democracy. But I have never read anything there about the story of Lev Cherny. A problem of perspective, no doubt…”
Jews themselves have recorded their considerable involvement with various anarchists, including terrorists. Start with Kenyon Zimmer’s “Immigrants against the State” (2015) for the US alone.
An interesting “sidebar” is Matthew Gindin’s “Secret Jewish History of Sacco & Vanzetti”, Forward, August 23, 2017, online; the innocence of these two has been demolished by the lawyer R. H. Montgomery.
Whereas the Jewish communists all around the world were atheists, a large percentage of the Jewish anarchists were religious (see e.g. Hayyim Rothman’s “No Masters but God” [2023]).
And don’t forget the “anarcho-capitalists” like David Friedman.
The Ayn Rand organizations of course now back one well-armed government – no prize for guessing which, is there Elan Journo, Leonard Peikoff, Yaron Brook, Boaz Arad?
To be fair some Jewish social democrats, libertarians and Zionists have helped in the intellectual fight against Communism and very recently Wokeism, whatever their own motivations; e.g. Eugene Lyons, David Dallin, Bertram Wolfe, Isaac Don Levine, Alfred Kohlberg, Joseph Kornfeder, Paul Gottfried, to name a few.
See David Bedein, “Saul Alinsky’s ideas can help Israel,” JERUSALEM POST, June 25, 2012.
Gets complicated.
@ Terry Fyde
I think we could add Allen Weinstein and Herbert Romerstein to the list, while noting that other anti-communist writers like Anne Applebaum and Ronald Radosh tend to play down any “Jewish role” in Soviet crimes. Those statistics are open to general debate just as those of national-socialist crimes are not. The recent books on communism by Jack Posobiec and Giles Udy are relevant.