“Let us become beautiful ourselves”: Élisée Reclus on vegetarianism, anarchism, and colonial violence

“Let us become beautiful ourselves”: Élisée Reclus on vegetarianism, anarchism, and colonial violence

The great geographer and theorist of anarchist communism was part of a radical milieu that engaged a wide range of social issues, from capitalism and colonialism to free love and animal rights ~ Spencer Beswick ~ In his classic essay “On Vegetarianism” (1901), Élisée Reclus wrote a stirring defense of it as an ethical and aesthetic necessity with the potential to end colonial violence by transforming humanity’s relationship with the world. Reclu…