Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The interests of the country are a secondary matter.”

Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.

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.

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…