“Collectivists begin by proclaiming a revolutionary principle - the abolition of private property - and then they deny it, no sooner than proclaimed, by upholding an organization of production and consumption which originated in private property.” — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Wage-work is serf-work; it cannot, it must not, produce all that it could produce. And it is high time to disbelieve the legend which… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“They say, 'No private property', and immediately after strive to maintain private property in its daily manifestations. 'You shall be a commune as far… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Because, to do manual work now, means in reality to shut yourself up for ten or twelve hours a day in an unhealthy workshop,… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“In our civilized societies we are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even to the… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“No, plenty for all is not a dream – though it was a dream indeed in those days when man, for all his pains,… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Whole columns are devoted to parliamentary debates and to political intrigues; while the vast everyday life of a nation appears only in the columns… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“All that was once looked on as a function of the government is today called in question. Things are arranged more easily and more… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Very often the idler is but a man to whom it is repugnant to spend all his life making the eighteenth part of a… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“What interest, in fact, can this depressing work have for the worker, when he knows that the fate awaiting him from the cradle to… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes centuries to swing. After a long period of slumber comes a… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Should an authoritarian Socialist society ever succeed in establishing itself, it could not last; general discontent would soon force it to break up, or… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
