Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “After the two years I had spent in a gloomy casemate, every fibre of my inner self seemed to be throbbing with life, and…”

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.

People flocked at night into Trafalgar Square to sleep there in the open air, under the wind and rain, between two newspapers; and one day in February a crowd, after having listened to the speeches of Burns, Hyndman, and Champion, rushed…

Far more important, however, than this outbreak of discontent, was the spirit which prevailed amongst the poorer portion of the working population in the outskirts of London.

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…