To be revolutionists, and fail to prove to the masses that a new era has really begun for them, is to ensure the certain ruin of the attempt.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “To be revolutionists, and fail to prove to the masses that a new era has really begun for them, is to ensure the certain…”
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Kropotkin stresses the necessity of demonstrating to the masses that a new era has begun to avoid failure in revolutionary efforts.
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Wars and several accidental causes may check for some time the scattering of industries: they will not stop it; it is unavoidable.
It is time to conclude, and, for every unprejudiced mind, the conclusion is self-evident.
The small bicycle workshops, with the hundreds of small improvements which they introduced, have been under our very eyes the primary cells out of which the great industry of the motor cars, and later on of the aeroplanes, has grown up.
He can do it; and in so doing he would save an immense quantity of the work which is now given for buying his food abroad, and for paying all the intermediaries who live upon this trade.

