Later on, when we were making socialist propaganda among the peasants, I could not but wonder why some of my friends, who had received a seemingly far more democratic education than myself, did not know how to talk to the peasants or to the factory workers from the country.
Kropotkin critiques the inability of some educated individuals to communicate effectively with peasants and workers.
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