What the peasant does not understand is abstract notions when they are not illustrated by concrete examples.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “What the peasant does not understand is abstract notions when they are not illustrated by concrete examples.”
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Kropotkin highlights the need for concrete examples to explain abstract concepts to peasants.
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I took a lively part in this movement, and with a few English comrades we started, in addition to the three socialist papers already in existence, an anarchist-communist monthly, ‘Freedom,’ which continues to live up to the present day.
But suppose the workers owned all the railways.
Already during my stay at Clairvaux I saw the necessity of completely revising the formula itself of ‘struggle for existence’ in the animal world, and its applications to human affairs.
Far more important, however, than this outbreak of discontent, was the spirit which prevailed amongst the poorer portion of the working population in the outskirts of London.

