“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
#pyotr-alexeyevich-kropotkin — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pyotr-alexeyevich-kropotkin, aggregated by home.social.