Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “But the accumulation of wealth in the hands of the privileged classes was going on at a speed never dreamed of before.”

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…

None of these are produced in greater quantities than would be required to secure well-being for all; and the over-production, so often spoken of, means nothing but that the masses are too poor to buy even what is now considered as…

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.

The amount of interest in socialism and all sorts of schemes of reform and reconstruction of society was very great in all layers of society.