Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “They talked to their masters as equals talk to equals, as if they never had stood in different relations.”

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.

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…

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.