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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Nothing less than an expropriation of the present owners of land and capital, and a transmission of all that is…”

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Nothing less than an expropriation of the present owners of land and capital, and a transmission of all that is necessary for the production of wealth to the producers themselves, was the avowed aim of the Association at the outset.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin emphasizes the necessity of transferring ownership of land and capital to the producers to achieve true wealth production.

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