On the record
The International Workingmen’s Association inaugurated a new method of solving the problems of practical sociology by appealing to the workers themselves.
Said by
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
Source
gutenberg.orgPetr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The International Workingmen’s Association inaugurated a new method of solving the problems of practical sociology by…”
Editor's note · Context
Kropotkin describes the International Workingmen’s Association as a pioneering effort to involve workers in sociological problem-solving.
Share
More from Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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.
None of these are produced in greater quantities than would be required to secure well-being for all; and the over-production, so often spoken of, means nothing but that the masses are too poor to buy even what is now considered as…
Most socialists had hitherto said that in our present civilized societies we actually produce much more than is necessary for guaranteeing full well-being to all.
People flocked at night into Trafalgar Square to sleep there in the open air, under the wind and rain, between two newspapers; and one day in February a crowd, after having listened to the speeches of Burns, Hyndman, and Champion, rushed…
Other voices in this conversation
