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But they proved terrible as regards the millions of human beings who were plunged into misery and had to rely upon precarious means of living in our cities.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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Kropotkin highlights the social costs of industrialization, emphasizing the misery faced by many urban dwellers.
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Most socialists had hitherto said that in our present civilized societies we actually produce much more than is necessary for guaranteeing full well-being to all.
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.
Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.
But suppose the workers owned all the railways.
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