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The Sacred and the Revolution (by Ian M. Thompson, 1975)

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Jonathan P. Thompson
Aug 08, 2025
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Editor’s Note: While writing an essay on monkey-wrenching, I ran across this piece written by my late-father back in 1975, the same year the Monkey Wrench Gang was published. I ran it on the Land Desk back in 2001, but I’ve got so many new readers, and the essay is so relevant, that I figured I’d re-up it. This piece was originally published in the Deep…

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