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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