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Petr 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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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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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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