I wish that all framers of plans of State discipline could pass through the school of real life before they begin to frame their State Utopias: we should then hear far less than at present of schemes of military and pyramidal organization of society.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “I wish that all framers of plans of State discipline could pass through the school of real life before they begin to…”
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He wishes that those designing state systems could learn from real-life experiences to avoid military-style organization.
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