In a free country they would have been the habitual speakers at public meetings; but, like the privileged workers of the watch trade in Geneva, they treated the mass of the factory hands with a sort of contempt, and were in no haste to become martyrs to the socialist cause.
Kropotkin critiques the privileged workers' attitude towards the broader working class, highlighting a disconnect in socialist activism.
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