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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “I began to tell the peasant that he must not pay taxes, that the functionaries plunder the people, and I tried to…”

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I began to tell the peasant that he must not pay taxes, that the functionaries plunder the people, and I tried to convince him by quotations from the Bible that they must revolt.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin recounts his conversation with a peasant about tax resistance and revolt.

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