As soon as the clerical and aristocratic surroundings of the king drove him to turn the screws of reaction, the republicans menaced him with a movement in which, they knew, the real fighting element would be the workers.
Kropotkin notes that the threat of worker movements kept the monarchy in check during reactionary times.
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