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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The Spanish papers were very well edited, and some of the manifestoes of their congresses were admirable expositions of…”

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The Spanish papers were very well edited, and some of the manifestoes of their congresses were admirable expositions of anarchist socialism; but who knows anything of Spanish ideas outside of Spain?
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin praises the quality of Spanish anarchist socialist manifestoes despite their limited reach.

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