Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “His system was to give them carte blanche; to pretend that he did not know even the horrors they were enacting; and to…”

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.

Most socialists had hitherto said that in our present civilized societies we actually produce much more than is necessary for guaranteeing full well-being to all.

Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.

However, I found that the comprehension of ‘struggle for life’ in the sense of a war-cry of ‘Woe to the weak,’ raised to the height of a commandment of nature revealed by science, was so deeply inrooted in this country that it had become…