The point needs to be made that, despite the pure anarchists’ hostility to large-scale industry, they were not opposed to…

“The point needs to be made that, despite the pure anarchists’ hostility to large-scale industry, they were not opposed to employing machinery or introducing new techniques of production. What they looked for was certainly a dismembering of the capitalist factory, with its inhuman production processes and industry designed with the capitalists’ interests in mind. Yet in its place they did not seek to resurrect the pre-industrial village of the past, but to move forward to a form of anarchist communism that would combine the best features of agriculture and industry both in the production undertaken in each local commune and in the lifestyle of each individual. Hatta explicitly rejected the machine breaker’s mentality when he wrote:
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‘We are completely opposite to the medievalists. We seek to use machines as means of production and, indeed, hope for the invention of yet more ingenious machines.’”

–John Crump, Hatta Shuzo and Pure Anarchism in Interwar Japan
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