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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: Here I saw that the workers were not a mass that was being led and made subservient to the political ends of a few men…

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Here I saw that the workers were not a mass that was being led and made subservient to the political ends of a few men; their leaders were simply their more active comrades--initiators rather than leaders.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin observes that workers were not merely followers but active participants in their movements.

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