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...state. But 19th century Europe offered a great many other forms of revolution to shop among. There were Saint-Simon, Fourier, and the other Utopian socialists, intellectual descendants of a small wing of the French Revolutionary Jacobins. There were the secret societies organized by the followers of Louis Auguste Blanqui, an erratic Frenchman who was the first to advocate dictatorship of the proletariat; the British
...give up his previous work as a tapestry designer and weaver. By the time World War I broke out, Aristide Maillol was already one of the best-known sculptors in France. His famed Action in Chains, a buxom female nude commemorating the French revolutionary Socialist Louis Auguste Blanqui, stood in Puget Theniers, near Grenoble. At his summer studio at Marly, near Paris, he was working on a memorial (another female figure) to France's great painter Paul Cezanne...
...Nomad contributes a study of that very ascetic revolutionary, Sergei Nechayev, who went the gamut from Bakunin to Blanqui, and only twice spoke at a students' meeting. Nomad does not enter what must seem to a casual observer the most fertile of all fields of inquiry, the posterity of Nechayev in Germany. For surely it is from Sergei Nechayev that the pragmatic anarchists of the German left directly derive--the "all Europe must lie in ashes" school that is so fascinating as long as it is numericaly small. His account, however, of Nechayev's trial is a very competent piece...
During its first year's work last year the Society for Political Education has received fees from 1500 members. Seven auxiliary societies have been established, of which two are in connection with colleges. The course of reading for next year will include Blanqui's "History of Political Economy," Jevon's "Money and Mechanism of Exchange" and Mill on "Liberty...
...leading doctrines discussed by Mill. Carey's system is to be studied, in order to present the subject as it is seen from the extreme protectionist point of view; and the subject of currency is to be examined, probably taking McLeod on Banking as the text-book. Blanqui's History is likely to be used, we believe, for collateral reading rather than as a text-book...