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Proudhon wasn't particularly anti-industrial. But it would be hard to deny that anarchists have been influenced by the mythology surrounding some of the early figures at least as often as they have been by their actual ideas. The remarks that people take as "support for the South" in the American Civil War are about half condemnation of the sincerity of Northern anti-slavery sentiment and half more complicated and not always convincing stuff about proper relations between groups at different stages in their development.