Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Another thing that impressed me deeply was the elevating influence which the International exercised.”

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.

But in all civilized countries the production, both agricultural and industrial, ought to and easily might be immensely increased so as to secure a reign of plenty for all.

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.

I took a lively part in this movement, and with a few English comrades we started, in addition to the three socialist papers already in existence, an anarchist-communist monthly, ‘Freedom,’ which continues to live up to the present day.