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The Aesthetic of Anarchist Newspapers
Anna: I was suddenly struck with this question of wait why were all of the anarchists of this era obsessed with like like greek romantic imagery and i'm curious. Anna: Anarchism runs from right the origins of democracy quote unquote that might be part of it. There's a yiddish poem by dovid edelstadt who became radicalized through the transit uh via london on his way to sincinati and then new york um radical key anarchist poet in yiddish. He compares louis ling to having a face like brutus and being anUm you know so there's all of this brutus imagery and he's talking about this kind of heroic martyrdom