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and now from the heights of Montmartre, and from Belleville,
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another peripheral neighborhood, anarchists looked down
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on the flashing lights of the capital, and they hate it.
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Many admired the Russian anarchist Michael Bakunin
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for whom destruction was "A creative passion
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that would bring about the end of the State, capitalism,
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and private property."
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"The modern state," Bakunin wrote,
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"With all its terrible means of action given to them by
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modern centralization, was becoming an immense, crushing, threatening reality,"
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As those slaughtered communards saw up close
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in May of 1871.