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“The Socialists were prosecuted with fury, and the weeding out was so terrible and so thorough that for the next twelve or fifteen years the very traces of Socialism disappeared; its literature vanished so completely that even names, once so familiar before 1848, were entirely forgotten; ideas which were then current—the stock ideas of the Socialists before 1848—were so wiped out as to be taken, later on, by our generation, for new discoveries.” https://library.hrmtc.com/2026/07/29/the-socialists-were-prosecuted-with-fury-and-the-weeding-out-was-so-terrible-and-so-thorough-that-for-the-next-twelve-or-fifteen-years-the-very-traces-of-socialism-disappeared-its-literature-vanis/ #anarchism #book #CommunismAndEcology #completely #current #disappeared #entirelyForgotten #EuropeanHistoryAfter1450 #EuropeanStudies #familiar #Fury #history #HistoryOfIdeasAndIntellectualHistory #ideas #later #literature #names #newDiscoveries #ourGeneration #PeterKropotkin #PetrAlekseevichKropotkin #PoliticsAndInternationalRelations #prosecuted #PyotrAlexeyevichKropotkin #quote #socialism #socialists #stockIdeas #taken #terrible #TextsInPoliticalThought #thorough #UtopianIdeology #vanished #veryTraces #weedingOut #wipedOut -
Hello w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ Set-of-interconnected-self-actualising-machines!
I intend this to be somewhat of an introduction, although I do realise that it would constitute a rather bizarre greeting in real life. This won't be a personal account, by that I mean I don't intend to post personal content (i.e. about my real world identity). This isn't really for anonymity, despite admittedly being quite a shy person, I think it's more to do with not wanting to attempt a serious explanation of my context, something which I doubt is achievable through this medium. For me underrepresentation is better than misrepresentation, although I understand if people find my presentation here dishonest or unaccountable.
I'll use this account partly for listening, a sampling spoon through which to experience the soup of conversation and thought. I'll also do some tooting, I like this word, I might have said contributing, tossing new, or maybe reused, ingredients into the soup, but that gives the impression, I think, of some final objective, an endpoint. Most likely, listening will be the larger of these two parts, and at least for the short term, both parts, the whole, will occupy very little of my time. Expect sporadicity and inconsistency!
I also wanted to say something about what I am interested in, this is difficult since if I just say a lot of words then what is there to relate my meaning, my intentions, to the meaning which you understand? "Language disguises thought" - Wittgenstein. Well after much deliberation and many sleepless nights I decided to... just say a lot of words, although do bear in mind that the following list is just that, merely a collection of words that I, at the time of writing, happened to perceive as having meanings that corresponded, perhaps imperfectly, to topics that I am interested in. Interested does not necessarily mean fully-endorse/believe/would-describe-myself-as/is-knowledgeable-about.
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