No, gentlemen--it was written in order to inspire him with hatred for our grand and beautiful institutions, in order only the better to infuse him with the venom of anarchism, in order to make of him only a more terrible enemy of society....
Kropotkin reflects on the intent behind his writings and their perceived impact on societal values.
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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.
However, I found that the comprehension of ‘struggle for life’ in the sense of a war-cry of ‘Woe to the weak,’ raised to the height of a commandment of nature revealed by science, was so deeply inrooted in this country that it had become…
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.
But suppose the workers owned all the railways.
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