The more I read the more I saw that there was before me a new world, unknown to me, and totally unknown to the learned makers of sociological theories--a world that I could know only by living in the Workingmen’s Association and by meeting the workers in their everyday life.
Kropotkin reflects on how his reading revealed a new world of workers' experiences that sociological theories overlooked.
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But suppose the workers owned all the railways.
It is only the distribution which is defective; and if a social revolution took place, nothing more would be required than for everyone to return to his factory or workshop, Society taking possession for itself of the ‘surplus value’ or…
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.
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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