The workers asserted with increasing emphasis that of all the divisions which exist in modern society by far the most important is that between the owners of capital and those who not only come into the world penniless, but are doomed to remain producers of wealth for the favoured few.
This quote captures the essence of class struggle as articulated by Kropotkin, emphasizing the divide between capital owners and workers.
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