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ZMag - By Michael McGehee</p>[I had intended to write this for the centennial anniversary of Francisco Ferrer's death but forgot about it. Better late than never I suppose.]</span></strong></span>
Many people, radicals included, are not even aware that he existed - or what the Modern School was.
Ferrer was a Spanish revolutionary, it's still debated on whether he was an anarchist or not though I think it's fair to call him one since his "ideals" are a comfortable match.
He grew up in an age when the Catholic Church dominated the state and public life. Politically, economically, culturally, sexually it was despotic and its unpopularity was growing. Decades after Ferrer's death another infamous Spanish anarchist and revolutionary, Buenaventura Durruti, remarked on the gutting and burning of churches during their revolution that, "The only church that illuminates is a burning church."
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