#weeding-out — Public Fediverse posts

“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