![[Osip] Mandelstam, who wasn't a political thinker, loved the idea of the city-state. One of the emblems in his poetry of the politics he imagined, over and against the universalizing politics of [Carl] Marx, was the medieval city of Novgorod, which had in its center a public well where the water was free to everyone. That became for him a figure of justice.](/assets/img/quote-photos/osip-mandelstam-who-wasnt-a-political-thinker-loved-the-idea-of-the-city-sta.jpg)
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