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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For improving our methods of culture to that extent, we surely need not divide the land into one-acre plots, and attempt to grow what we are in need of by everyone’s separate individual exertions, on everyone’s separate plot with no better…
Almost every year brings some new, often unexpected improvement in the art of agriculture, which for so many centuries had been dormant.
They are entirely in our institutions, in our inheritances and survivals from the past--in the “Ghosts” which oppress us.
But the monopoly of industrial production could not remain with England for ever.
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