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It was necessary, therefore, to show that at least here and there the workers would not have their rights trampled underfoot, and would offer resistance.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin stresses the necessity for workers to resist oppression and assert their rights in the face of adversity.
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Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.
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.
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.
But suppose the workers owned all the railways.
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