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exaggerated purism of Madrid, or if in substance we submit ourselves to the
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of his family until 1869. During this period of solitude, he would experiment with a chemistry lab, developing a profitable starch compound, became a more improved poet and received political literature from Europe that would influence him.
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through the police and military. Culturally, he said the elites were foreign to the majority of
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in Peru. González Prada was perhaps the most radical of them all. The most radical work he published during his lifetime was
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Plaskacz, Bohdan (1970). "Manuel Gonzalez Prada and Prince Peter Kropotkin — Aristocrats Turned Anarchists".
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