In fact, it has been attained; and what has been done on a small scale could be done on a wider scale, were it not for the economical and social causes which prevent any serious reform from being accomplished in our miserably organised society.
Kropotkin reflects on the potential for broader educational reforms hindered by societal issues.
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Far more important, however, than this outbreak of discontent, was the spirit which prevailed amongst the poorer portion of the working population in the outskirts of London.
Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.
I took a lively part in this movement, and with a few English comrades we started, in addition to the three socialist papers already in existence, an anarchist-communist monthly, ‘Freedom,’ which continues to live up to the present day.
But suppose the workers owned all the railways.
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