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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: He was also one of the finest critics of the current socialist literature, and was never taken in by the mere display of…

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He was also one of the finest critics of the current socialist literature, and was never taken in by the mere display of fine words, or would-be science.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin commends a critic's ability to discern genuine thought from mere rhetoric in socialist literature.

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