No, my reference to left-anarchism does not imply that a right anarchism existed in the 19th century. I was making the distinction because such a distinction exists today, and that distinction seemed to be creating confusion for various people.
Considering that right anarchism was not an actual...
To be fair, there were people who right anarchists claim as their predecessors - Lysander Spooner, for example.
But yeah, mostly what Jello Biafra said. Libertarians love to steal terms that historically belonged to leftists and then get pissed off when leftists contunue to use them (like the...
American anarchists were leftists. The image of the "bomb-throwing anarchist" originates from (well, doesn't originate, but was solidified during) the First Red Scare. Anarchism in the first part of the twentieth century was primarily associated with the I.W.W. (the Industrial Workers of the...
Left anarchism (which is the original anarchism, and the only one of real relevance for the 19th century) does not describe a state of no rules (which is somewhat closer to right anarchism) - it describes "workers' self management," which essentially means that workers are not beholden to employers.
Why would getting rid of Stalin allow the USSR to survive longer? Without Stalin's industrialization programs, the USSR would have been steamrolled by Germany.