Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “I drank in the sense and the music of every line of it, beginning with the very first verses of the ideally beautiful…”

Most socialists had hitherto said that in our present civilized societies we actually produce much more than is necessary for guaranteeing full well-being to all.

Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.

But in all civilized countries the production, both agricultural and industrial, ought to and easily might be immensely increased so as to secure a reign of plenty for all.

None of these are produced in greater quantities than would be required to secure well-being for all; and the over-production, so often spoken of, means nothing but that the masses are too poor to buy even what is now considered as…