I've read the sentence about anarchists ten times and I have no idea WTF he is on about. Btw the nerd's name is Peter Hudis.
Edit: FFS Tankies and anarchists stop shitting on each other here. Take your struggle session elsewhere. You're both my comrades.
Becht had to testify in front of the house un American activities in the second red scare, he was an actual leftist and one of the few that showed up. He didn't lie or anything, he just didn't fall on an imaginary sword. They accused him of writing revolutionary songs (what a thing to be accused of...) and he said he wrote then about the Nazis and of course he was for the fall of that government.
Wow so they grilled him for writing a song about toppling the Nazi empire.. fucking crackers