By the 1970s, Richard Sennett points out, anti-urban bias is not only observable in the right-wing, but on the revolutionary left, in the writings of Franz Fanon, and in Mao-Tse Tung and Fidel Castro's celebration of peasantry. Fanon held that "the necessity for bureacracy in a city an dthe anonymous character of human contacts were bound to destroy the feeling of closeness in men... these dense places would frighten men into pursuing safe routines where they knew they would not be overwhelmed. They would thus be pushed into private circles of security and eventually lost as revolutionaries" (Sennett, xv, Uses of Disorder - paraphrasing Fanon)