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...have been anarchist movements, whether anarchism is backward looking, or political Bohemianism or what." If, he says, any thing connected his three intellectuals, it was concern with industrial society, centralised states, and so forth; and the anarchists have after all "gone farthest in repudiating the whole thing." Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, and those "wildly and apocalyptically optimistic" Spanish anarchists who, following Proudhon's teachings, immediately abolished money when they took over villages--will all appear in his book...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: James Joll | 6/4/1962 | See Source »

...Washington Star hoped that the "long-neglected problem" of federal parking would not be "swept under the rug." The New York Daily News advised Kennedy to staff his State Department with reliable anti-Communists such as Victor (I Chose Freedom) Kravchenko and Princess Alexandra Kropotkin. "Of course, President Kennedy can buddy up to Castro and Khrushchev," said the News, "but if he does, he'll brand himself as a dishonest man, to say nothing of giving the criminal Communist conspiracy a powerful assist in its drive to enslave the human race. Somehow, we can't picture Kennedy being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hard Look at a Hero | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

Most famous Britannica edition was the ninth, completed in 1889, with 25 volumes and 20,504 pages (v. the current Britannica's 24 volumes, 27,247 pages). Contributors included Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, Darwinian Thomas Henry Huxley, and Revolutionary Russian Prince Pëtr Alekseevich Kropotkin, who wrote his article on "Anarchism" while locked up in a French prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rule, Britannica | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...other interests. With the help of a German scholar, he translated all of a Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra, and his favorite authors changed to Nietzsche, Kropotkin, and Marx...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: George Pierce Baker: Prism for Genius | 11/6/1957 | See Source »

...thought, rather a hand-picked lot and not very impressive, especially the leading personality, who seemed almost as devotedly a Communist adherent as the Dean of Canterbury." -I "Regarding [trade], I do not think that one can expect a great development." Kropotkin and others were not available in the libraries. "These books were not suitable for workers to read," was the final answer. "We pointed out that this was the kind of line that had been taken by reactionary governments in the past. They were quite unimpressed . . . Here, over this vast expanse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Curtain of Ignorance | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

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