Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Both countries have only lately entered the industrial phase of their development, and they have entered it with all the…”

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.

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.

The amount of interest in socialism and all sorts of schemes of reform and reconstruction of society was very great in all layers of society.

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…