This was not an organized movement: it was one of those mass movements which occur at certain periods of sudden awakening of human conscience.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “This was not an organized movement: it was one of those mass movements which occur at certain periods of sudden…”
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He characterizes the movement of youth towards the working class as a spontaneous awakening of conscience.
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