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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The artist who formerly found æsthetic enjoyment in the work of his hands is substituted by the human slave of an iron…”

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The artist who formerly found æsthetic enjoyment in the work of his hands is substituted by the human slave of an iron slave.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin contrasts the aesthetic enjoyment of artists with the dehumanizing conditions of industrial labor.

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