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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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I soon realized the absolute impossibility of doing anything really useful for the masses of the people by means of the administrative machinery.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

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Kropotkin expresses the futility of using administrative systems to effect meaningful change for the masses.

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