"His entire life's work was dedicated to the revival of a nationalist Jewish culture not only separate from gentile culture, but also from the Haskalah, Reform Judaism (which he despised) and other attempts at Jewish revival which he saw as dangerously assimilationist. What can we call this except virulent nationalism?"

Jabotinsky was a virulent nationalist. Ahad Ha'am was not. Despising Reform Judaism does not make you "virulent."

"I think I can summarize Richard's philosophy as the following..."

As I wrote earlier in another thread, don't trust anyone here who attempts to summarize my philosophy as they are undoubtedly liars or ideologues or as is likely in the case of this jerk, both.

Richard Silverstein

Tikun Olam (blog)