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Jean Grave, “Free-Land” (1908)
[ezcol_2third] FREE-LAND (The Pioneers) by Jean Grave 1908 [TRANSLATION IN PROGRESS] PREFACE By the translator of the Spanish edition. Tasked with translating this book for the collection of readings for the “Modern School” of Barcelona, I first experienced, on reading it, a feeling of pleasant melancholy. The arbitrary and brutal act, undertaken in the name of social defense and in order to decapitate a revolutionary party, that casts a load of deportees into the steerage of the Arethusa — which every reader of bourgeois judgment will take for an act of rabble-rousing exaggeration, — reminded me of the bombing at […]