The amount of interest in socialism and all sorts of schemes of reform and reconstruction of society was very great in all layers of society.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “The amount of interest in socialism and all sorts of schemes of reform and reconstruction of society was very great in…”
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Kropotkin highlights the widespread interest in socialist ideas across various social classes during his time.
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The small bicycle workshops, with the hundreds of small improvements which they introduced, have been under our very eyes the primary cells out of which the great industry of the motor cars, and later on of the aeroplanes, has grown up.
But the monopoly of industrial production could not remain with England for ever.
Every farmer is more or less of a gardener, and he gives free scope to his inventive powers for devising some cheap type of greenhouses.
But force is reciprocal; and if the god of war always sides with the strongest battalions, those battalions are strongest which fight for new rights against outgrown privileges.

