As is usual at such times, the fury of the poorer people turned especially against the places of amusement and debauch, which become only the more conspicuous in times of desolation and misery, as they impersonate for the worker the egotism and dissoluteness of the wealthier classes.
Kropotkin comments on how the poor's anger is directed towards places of entertainment that symbolize the excesses of the wealthy during hard times.
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