Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “I saw how eager the workers were to gain instruction, and how despairingly few were those who volunteered to aid them.”

However, I found that the comprehension of ‘struggle for life’ in the sense of a war-cry of ‘Woe to the weak,’ raised to the height of a commandment of nature revealed by science, was so deeply inrooted in this country that it had become…

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…

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.

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.