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Against Progress

The case for Reactionary Radicalism

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Paul Kingsnorth
Feb 22, 2023
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These days he would probably be mobbed as an ‘eco-fascist’, but Edward Goldsmith would probably have been better described as a traditionalist. The founder of The Ecologist magazine, where he employed me as a naive young writer in the late nineties, Goldsmith was also a founding father of the early British green movement, but he always moved at ninety d…

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