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1860s Nihilists, 1960s Hippies and 2025 Rioters

(Copyright 06-11-2025) by Curtis Dahlgren (Stephenson, Michigan)  “Religion was to be replaced by the exact sciences, family life by free love, private property by collectivism… “ – Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910 IN VIEW OF the violent rioting in California and other places, it’s past time to republish the following excerpts from my March 20, 2022, column. “NIHILISM, the name commonly given to the Russian form of revolutionary Socialism, which had at first an academical character, and rapidly developed into an anarchist revolutionary movement.” [The following quotes are all from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition (1910), with my emphasis throughout.] “It originated in the early […]