Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “It must be said that the political atmosphere was such that the best men had reasons, or had at least weighty excuses…”

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…

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.

None of these are produced in greater quantities than would be required to secure well-being for all; and the over-production, so often spoken of, means nothing but that the masses are too poor to buy even what is now considered as…

Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.