I soon realized the absolute impossibility of doing anything really useful for the masses of the people by means of the administrative machinery.
Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin: “I soon realized the absolute impossibility of doing anything really useful for the masses of the people by means of the…”
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Kropotkin expresses the futility of using administrative systems to effect meaningful change for the masses.
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Or, ‘We don’t like the idea of state management of railways, and the present management by private companies is organized robbery.
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.
But in all civilized countries the production, both agricultural and industrial, ought to and easily might be immensely increased so as to secure a reign of plenty for all.

