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If the workers had taken steps towards the socialization of property, the revenge could not have been more terrible.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgPetr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “If the workers had taken steps towards the socialization of property, the revenge could not have been more terrible.”
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Kropotkin suggests that the severity of the wealthy's revenge would have been worse if workers had attempted to socialize property.
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