In all such matters, in which intellect is the supreme judge, everyone in discussion used his own arguments.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “In all such matters, in which intellect is the supreme judge, everyone in discussion used his own arguments.”
Editor's note · Context
Kropotkin emphasizes that discussions were based on individual arguments rather than a single intellectual authority.
Share
More from Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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…
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.
It is only the distribution which is defective; and if a social revolution took place, nothing more would be required than for everyone to return to his factory or workshop, Society taking possession for itself of the ‘surplus value’ or…
But suppose the workers owned all the railways.

