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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “To make one feel in sympathy with the throbbing of the human heart all over the world, with its revolt against age-long…”

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To make one feel in sympathy with the throbbing of the human heart all over the world, with its revolt against age-long injustice, with its attempts at working out new forms of life--this should be the chief duty of a revolutionary paper.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin believes that a revolutionary paper's main duty is to resonate with the global struggle against injustice.

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