For many landlords the liberation of the serfs was an excellent money transaction.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “For many landlords the liberation of the serfs was an excellent money transaction.”
Editor's note · Context
Kropotkin notes that for many landlords, the liberation of serfs was financially beneficial.
Share
More from Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
It is a fact that chemical manures, without organic manure, seldom prove to be sufficient.
And yet it is easy to prove that both are totally erroneous: plenty of food could be grown on the territories of Western Europe for much more than their present populations, and an immense benefit would be derived from doing so.
There is not a second India in the world, and the old conditions will be repeated no more.
As to the honest longing for more technical education--surely let us all have as much of it as possible: it will be a boon for humanity; for humanity, of course--not for a single nation, because knowledge cannot be cultivated for home use…

