The workers were called upon to make their own revolution--to take the land for the peasants and the factories for the workers themselves, and to abolish the oppressive centralized organization of the State, whose historical mission always was to protect and to maintain the exploitation of man by man.
Kropotkin emphasizes the need for workers to take control of their own resources and abolish state oppression.
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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.
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.
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.
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