Blanquism, the Commune, and anarchism were more racist than social democracy.

Evidence

The most racist forms of socialism were, therefore, Blanquism of course, and then the Commune, and then anarchism—much more so than social democracy, much more so than the Second International, and much more so than Marxism itself. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 8560

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

• QUESTION: This ranking (that revolution-adjacent anarchism out-racists reformist social democracy) inverts the common assumption that racism maps onto the political right—worth verifying in the historical record.