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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: All discussions about the impracticability of socialism and the necessary slowness of evolution are of little value…

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All discussions about the impracticability of socialism and the necessary slowness of evolution are of little value, because the speed of evolution can only be judged from a close knowledge of the human beings of whose evolution we are speaking.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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He argues that discussions on socialism's feasibility are often misguided without understanding human evolution.

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