{"id":39029,"date":"2015-09-27T21:19:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T11:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=39029"},"modified":"2015-10-30T15:49:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T05:49:14","slug":"michael-schmidt-is-a-white-nationalist-trying-to-infiltrate-the-anarchist-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=39029","title":{"rendered":"“Michael Schmidt is a white nationalist trying to infiltrate the anarchist movement.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/strong> (October 30) : Alexander Reid Ross and Joshua Stephens have finished publishing their expos\u00e9 on Schmidt. It is serialised. About Schmidt: How a White Nationalist Seduced Anarchists Around the World (Chapter 1)<\/a> | About Schmidt: How a White Nationalist Seduced Anarchists Around the World (Chapter 2)<\/a> | About Schmidt: How a White Nationalist Seduced Anarchists Around the World (Chapter 3)<\/a> | About Schmidt: How a White Nationalist Seduced Anarchists Around the World (Chapter 4)<\/a> | About Schmidt: How a White Nationalist Seduced Anarchists Around the World (Chapter 5)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong> (September 29) : The Institute for Anarchist Theory and History (IATH) (Instituto de Teoria e Hist\u00f3ria Anarquista (ITHA)) — of which Michael Schmidt is a member — have published a ‘Statement on AK Press versus Michael Schmidt Case \/ Declara\u00e7\u00e3o sobre o caso AK Press versus Michael Schmidt’<\/a> | (September 30) : Statement from Anarkismo on the AK Press accusations against Michael Schmidt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Briefly:<\/p>\n

Anarchist publisher + distributor AK Press has issued a public statement<\/a> on the subject of Michael Schmidt, among other things the co-author of Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism<\/a><\/em> (AK Press, 2009). According to AK Press, Schmidt, while posing as a revolutionary anarchist, is in reality “an undercover fascist” and “a white nationalist trying to infiltrate the anarchist movement.”<\/p>\n

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As I see it, until such time as AK Press publishes its evidence — and Schmidt is given an opportunity to respond — it’s very difficult, if not impossible, to make a reasonable assessment of the situation. Nevertheless, some discussion has floated the possibility that Schmidt was moonlighting as a ‘national anarchist’. If so, this would be a case of ‘deep entrism’.<\/p>\n

In any event, in Australia at least — and despite the best efforts of its chief promoter, Sydney-based businessman Welf Herfurth — ‘national anarchism’ appears to have been a largely abortive political project. Thus, other than arrange a handful of media stunts (see<\/em> : When White nationalists attack! New Right @ Gaza solidarity rally, Sydney, November 24<\/a>, December 7, 2012), ‘national anarchism’ has failed to establish itself as even a minor grouping on the far right. Indeed, one of Herfurth’s former acolytes, Scott Harrison<\/a>, after taking a detour thru Creativity, eventually wound up as a Young Liberal<\/a> (much to former Victorian premier Dennis Napthine’s embarrassment).<\/p>\n

Obviously, there’s much more to come, but in the meantime note that ‘national anarchists’ are organising a conference to take place somewhere in Europe in 2017, at which Herfurth along with Troy Southgate, Keith Preston et al are scheduled to speak.<\/p>\n

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See also<\/em> : \u2018Co-opting the Counter Culture: Troy Southgate and the National Revolutionary Faction\u2019 by Graham D. Macklin<\/a> (May 30, 2009) | Rebranding Fascism: National-Anarchists<\/a>, Spencer Sunshine, PublicEye.org, 2008 | Rising Above the Herd: Keith Preston’s Authoritarian Anti-Statism<\/a>, Matthew N. Lyons, New Politics<\/em>, April 29, 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update (October 30) : Alexander Reid Ross and Joshua Stephens have finished publishing their expos\u00e9 on Schmidt. It is serialised. About Schmidt: How a White Nationalist Seduced Anarchists Around the World (Chapter 1) | About Schmidt: How a White Nationalist … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,2,4,9],"tags":[2200,2199,884,2201,2198,45,1205,254],"class_list":["post-39029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-natas","category-anarchism","category-anti-fascism","category-state","tag-ak-press","tag-black-flame","tag-co-opting-the-counter-culture-troy-southgate-and-the-national-revolutionary-faction","tag-keith-preston","tag-michael-schmidt","tag-national-anarchism","tag-troy-southgate","tag-welf-herfurth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-a9v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39029"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39174,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39029\/revisions\/39174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}