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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “But that is the capitalist’s view of the matter, not the community’s view.”

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But that is the capitalist’s view of the matter, not the community’s view.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin critiques the capitalist perspective on labor and community needs.

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