And each crisis accelerates the day when the present institutions of individual property and production will be shaken to their foundations with such internal struggles as will depend upon the more or less good sense of the now privileged classes.
Kropotkin discusses the inevitability of societal change due to internal struggles within privileged classes.
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But suppose the workers owned all the railways.
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.
It is only the distribution which is defective; and if a social revolution took place, nothing more would be required than for everyone to return to his factory or workshop, Society taking possession for itself of the ‘surplus value’ or…
Far more important, however, than this outbreak of discontent, was the spirit which prevailed amongst the poorer portion of the working population in the outskirts of London.
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