Benjamin Eskola

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After 1848, as the liberals failed to deliver improvements to their lot, landless labourers in the south turned to anarchist ideas, which exercised a strong appeal to people who felt the state, with its taxation, military conscription and de facto support of the landowning class, was a hostile and alien institution that had to be swept away.
Benjamin Eskola
Including e.g. state-backed enclosure of commons.
The Pursuit of Power: Europe, 1815-1914
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