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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “Whatever improvement upon the present conditions such an organisation might be, that improvement would not last; it…”

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Whatever improvement upon the present conditions such an organisation might be, that improvement would not last; it would have to undergo a further transformation or disappear.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin suggests that any improvements in agricultural organization must evolve to remain effective.

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