Anarchyland - by Aaron Lake Smith - Empty Railroad Gulch
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a memoir of the sunken past
Your own small personal experiences of life are always more persuasive than anything else. —Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday Napoleon believed that a person's politics were fundamentally shaped in young adulthood. I got my sentimental education among a kind of people who seem extinct now. Strange squatters with a gleam in their eye and tattered black Iron Maiden shirts who walked barefoot through the broken glass back to their squatted houses in Washington, DC and Baltimore. In Philadelphia, I watched hundreds of them, with their Mad Max bikes and dogs come out for a Mumia Abu-Jamal…
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