These protesters therefore opened up a power vacuum they were unwilling to fill. As a result, their movements were often recuperated by conservative, nationalist, or fascist organizations—like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, or the Right Sector in Ukraine—who lacked such scruples, and were more than happy to negotiate on behalf of the movement.
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Noel Ignatiev grew up in Philadelphia in the 1940s. He wrote in his memoir, Acceptable Men, that “from the time I was a youngster I knew I wanted to dedicate my life to revolution.” His parents had both been communists and he inherited the family business, traversing over his lifetime a variety of revolutionary groupings, from Stalinist to proto-anarchist. A man ahead of his time, he maintained a steady focus on the fight against racial oppression.
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