There were a lot of questions I just couldn't answer. Right-libertarians often excused private tyranny while only concerning themselves with government tyranny. Eventually I discovered a dark side within right-libertarianism. In the late 1970s Reason magazine dedicated an issue to historical revisionism, but basically focused it on Holocaust denial. This includes prominent right-libertarians like James J. Martin and Gary North, the latter runs a Ron Paul homeschool program. I discovered other Holocaust deniers in the movement, such as Harry Elmer Barnes, who was eulogized by right-libertarian hero Murray Rothbard. Literally at the Holocaust Memorial museum, they have a timeline of Holocaust denial and right-libertarian magazines like the Rampart Journal were included a few times.
This sickened me. Everything I believed in was bunk to me. But I still kept my anti-authoritarian attitude. And people had told me in the past that true libertarianism was socialist, so I decided to read The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, and give consideration to anarcho-communist thought. That book converted me. And from there, I read The ABC of Anarchism by Alexander Berkman, then Anarcho-Syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker. That last book encouraged me to join the IWW.
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