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She had no need to embellish the workers and the peasants with imaginary virtues in order to love them and to work for them.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgShe had no need to embellish the workers and the peasants with imaginary virtues in order to love them and to work for them.
Kropotkin emphasizes the importance of authenticity in loving and working for the working class.
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Already during my stay at Clairvaux I saw the necessity of completely revising the formula itself of ‘struggle for existence’ in the animal world, and its applications to human affairs.
But suppose the workers owned all the railways.
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.
Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.