Consequently, the Jura Federation, with its papers printed in French, became the centre for the maintenance and expression in the Latin countries of the spirit which--I repeat it--saved Europe from a very dark period of reaction.
Kropotkin identifies the Jura Federation as a crucial center for anarchist thought in Latin countries.
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I took a lively part in this movement, and with a few English comrades we started, in addition to the three socialist papers already in existence, an anarchist-communist monthly, ‘Freedom,’ which continues to live up to the present day.
Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.
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.
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.
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