For the very success of socialism, the ideas of no-government, of self-reliance, of free initiative of the individual--of anarchism, in a word--had thus to be preached side by side with those of socialized ownership and production.
Kropotkin emphasizes the importance of anarchist principles alongside socialism for achieving true social reform.
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