However, I soon noticed that no revolution, whether peaceful or violent, has ever taken place without the new ideals having deeply penetrated into the very class itself whose economical and political privileges had to be assailed.
Kropotkin argues that revolutions require new ideals to penetrate the classes whose privileges are challenged.
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