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There is a sense of self-righteousness that seems to come to every form of revolution. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, but it does tend to amplify the ills rather than aid the remedy.

In the context of Napoleonic era, the continental system was meant to be the remedy, but it only served to highlight the symptoms of the illness.

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Guten Morgen 👋 😀 Zum Wochenstart und weil ich meinen Traum von heute Nacht vergessen habe, hier ein Zitat von Leo Perutz:

"Der Traum gibt uns mit verschwenderischen Händen, was uns das karge Leben schuldig bleibt. Und diese sogenannte Wirklichkeit - was wird aus ihr, was bleibt von ihr? Auch das, was wir erlebt haben, wird blass und schattenhaft und irgend einmal zerrinnt es, so wie ein Traum zerrinnt."

Leo Perutz - St. Petri Schnee (1933)

"Of course, whatever be the economical bases of organization of society, there will always be in its midst a certain number of beings with passions more strongly developed and less easily controlled than the rest; and there always will be men whose passions may occasionally lead them to commit acts of an anti-social character. But these passions can receive another direction..."

— Peter Kropotkin, In Russian and French Prisons (1887)

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The Anarchist LibraryIn Russian and French PrisonsPëtr Kropotkin In Russian and French Prisons 1887