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Gustave Courbet painted a lot,
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in the area around Besancon or Nantes,
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lots of really marvelous paintings of people at work,
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the stone breakers and people just working their guts out for very little.
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Proudhon, in 1848, it's said he went down in Paris
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and put a brick on a barricade and threw up,
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nauseated by the thought of violence, of revolution.
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His successors,
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sort of the leaders of the anarchist movements,
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were Mikhail Bakunin,
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an enormously tall, bearded, heavy-drinking, heavy-eating,
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heavy-sweating Russian noble,