We were thus driven into a corner; and while a thorough change in the present relations between labour and capital is becoming an imperious necessity, a thorough remodelling of the whole of our industrial organisation has also become unavoidable.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “We were thus driven into a corner; and while a thorough change in the present relations between labour and capital is…”
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Kropotkin emphasizes the urgent need for a fundamental transformation in labor and capital relations.
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