Political Quotes

Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The literature which could be published in Russia under a rigorous censorship--the faintest hint of socialism being…”

On the record
The literature which could be published in Russia under a rigorous censorship--the faintest hint of socialism being prohibited--was soon found insufficient, and we started a printing office of our own abroad.
Said by
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

Editor's note · Context

Kropotkin highlights the challenges of publishing socialist literature under strict censorship in Russia.

Share

More from Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

It is only the distribution which is defective; and if a social revolution took place, nothing more would be required than for everyone to return to his factory or workshop, Society taking possession for itself of the ‘surplus value’ or…

gutenberg.org

None of these are produced in greater quantities than would be required to secure well-being for all; and the over-production, so often spoken of, means nothing but that the masses are too poor to buy even what is now considered as…

gutenberg.org

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.

gutenberg.org

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.

gutenberg.org

Other voices in this conversation