The Futurist Manifesto

I had to reread the first few paragraphs to try to get an understanding but once I reached about halfway through the first page, it became clearer as to what the message was. To me, this seems to be more anarchic than a movement. It talks about destroying libraries and museums with "your pickaxes, your axes
and hammers and wreck, wreck the venerable cities." What this manifesto is telling you to do is basically dismantle and destroy anything that houses historical information or symbols of a prior age to your own without regard. Now I understand that the saying is don't dwell on the past but all I'm reading is to erase the past as if it were a flat tire hindering progress from one goal to another. I also understand, however, that this was written back in 1909 when times were different. They had different worries, ethics and technology to ours'. That does not change the fact that we could both recognize anarchy when we see it.