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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “His writings and his sayings were not a text that one had to obey--as is often unfortunately the case in political…”

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His writings and his sayings were not a text that one had to obey--as is often unfortunately the case in political parties.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin asserts that Bakúnin's writings were not treated as obligatory texts within the discussions.

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