Speaking from personal knowledge, I may venture to say that the radical middle-class leaders would have hesitated in case of an emergency, while the workers would have seized the first opportunity for an uprising which, beginning with the defence of the republic, might have gone further on in the socialist direction.
Kropotkin contrasts the hesitance of radical leaders with the readiness of workers to rise for socialist causes.
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