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And it must be said that the triumphs of the factory were too often achieved only by means of the most fraudulent adulteration and the underpaid labour of the children.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin critiques the unethical practices in factories, highlighting the exploitation of child labor and fraudulent practices.
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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.
I took a lively part in this movement, and with a few English comrades we started, in addition to the three socialist papers already in existence, an anarchist-communist monthly, ‘Freedom,’ which continues to live up to the present day.
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.
Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.
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