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...more violent theories of socialism were already supplanting these gentle persuaders whom Karl Marx contemptuously dubbed "the Utopians." P.J. Proudhon, self-taught son of a barrelmaker, declared: "Property is theft." Burly, bearded Russian Michael Bakunin was transmuting his biologic impotence into an ardent anarchism-of-the-deed that longed to send the whole world up in smoke. "The desire to destroy," wrote Bakunin, "is also a creative desire." Finding some peasants milling around a German castle one day, he hopped out of his carriage, filled them so quickly with creative desire that when he took his seat again, the castle...
Skimming through history and throwing off such names as Proudhon, Bakunin, Sorel, Kropotkin, like a shower of sparks, Chamberlain contrasts the lively diversity of pre-war political theory with the postwar hypnosis of Marxism. He thinks most liberal thinking since 1933 has been "pretty silly" because merely a reaction from that spell. As for effective liberal organizations, the Democratic Party has been the best of a bad lot: "a loose federation of southern cotton snobs, western dirt farmers (the real heirs of Jefferson) and the machines of Jersey City's Frank Hague, Chicago's Pat Nash...
...Bakunin battalion made up entirely of dockworkers from Barcelona, broke into Huesca at nine in the morning, but was checked for four hours by 26 machine-guns installed on a church roof and belfry, which vomited livid death into the front ranks of the Popular Frontists as they entered the main square. Shortly after noon two Anarchists, Amadeo Salvan and Fernández Ubarri, loaded themselves with sacks of dynamite weighing 40 lbs. each, and made a dash for the church, each with a split fuse held in one hand and a lighted cigaret in the other. Fernandez Ubarri...
...single day, and 24 English publishers brought out Longfellow's work in competition. Simple, sweet, one of the most learned men of his time. Longfellow welcomed callers who ranged from English tourists who intruded "because there were no American ruins to visit" to such strangers as Bakunin. the Russian an archist who, invited to lunch, invited himself to dinner as well...
...housewives who since the beginning of the buying boom have made a business of stocking up on every sort of household stuff. With screaming headlines in Moscow papers branding such housewives as "Speculators," the OGPU made its most spectacular raid of the week on an eight-family house in Bakunin Street, swept all housewives therein off to jail, left astonished husbands and children to return to find no dinner. With an air of uncovering the deepest-dyed skullduggery, the OGPU revealed that the eight women had possessed among them 50 woolen shawls, 1,800 yards of cloth and "quantities...