Quote for the day – March 30

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anarchism, civilization, culture, France, Michael Löwy

“In France, as everywhere else, nostalgia for certain moral values from the past, the idealisation of certain pre-capitalist social forms (rural living or cottage industry) and the rejection of industrial/bourgeois civilization were an essential component of anarchist culture”.

Michael Löwy, Rédemption et utopie: le judaïsme libertaire en Europe centrale

[Read about Michael Löwy on the orgrad website]