the point is to recognise the anti-modernist ideological overlap between contemporary green back-to-the-land ideology and volkisch agrarian mystique, resulting from common romanticist origins that were deeply antipathetic toward the Enlightenment.

You might say that the Spaniard yelling about toast wasn’t lying, but composing, composing a literature of the trenches, transcending propaganda to make art. And I wonder if what he said was this: That the anarchists were more humane than the Fascists because they recognized that beneath the abstractions of political rhetoric are desires that are