Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “But in all civilized countries the production, both agricultural and industrial, ought to and easily might be immensely…”

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.

Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.

None of these are produced in greater quantities than would be required to secure well-being for all; and the over-production, so often spoken of, means nothing but that the masses are too poor to buy even what is now considered as…

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.