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To welcome all these sufferings, seeing in them the action of a “natural law” and a necessary step towards the necessary concentration of industry, would be simply absurd.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgTo welcome all these sufferings, seeing in them the action of a “natural law” and a necessary step towards the necessary concentration of industry, would be simply absurd.
Kropotkin argues against viewing suffering as a natural law necessary for industrial concentration.
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