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Whatever else they may have missed about the human condition, the anarchists’ belief in the drive for the dignity and autonomy of small property was a perceptive reading of the popular imaginary. The petty bourgeois dream of independence, though less attainable in practice, did not die with the Industrial Revolution. Rather, it gained a new lease on life.

“The larger and more authoritarian an organisation (or state), the better the chance that its top decision-makers will be operating in purely imaginary worlds” Kenneth Boulding