The workers were called upon to make their own revolution--to take the land for the peasants and the factories for the workers themselves, and to abolish the oppressive centralized organization of the State, whose historical mission always was to protect and to maintain the exploitation of man by man.
Kropotkin emphasizes the need for workers to take control of their own resources and abolish state oppression.
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