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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: I thought, on the contrary, that a revolutionary paper must be, above all, a record of those symptoms which everywhere…

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I thought, on the contrary, that a revolutionary paper must be, above all, a record of those symptoms which everywhere announce the coming of a new era, the germination of new forms of social life, the growing revolt against antiquated institutions.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin argues that revolutionary papers should document the signs of societal change and emerging new ideas.

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