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To confuse Nihilism with terrorism is as wrong as to confuse a philosophical movement like Stoicism or Positivism with a political movement, such as, for example, republicanism.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin argues against conflating philosophical movements with political movements, using Nihilism and terrorism as examples.
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