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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Every popular outbreak, every revolutionary agitation in any country of Europe, was received by the social democratic…”

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Every popular outbreak, every revolutionary agitation in any country of Europe, was received by the social democratic leaders with even more animosity than by the capitalist press.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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He notes the hostility of social democratic leaders towards revolutionary movements, contrasting them with capitalist reactions.

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