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We take men for what they are worth - and that is why we hate the government of man by man, and that we work with all our might - perhaps not strong enough - to put an end to it.

Peter Kropotkin

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Peter Kropotkin
Age: 78 †
Born: 1842
Born: December 9
Died: 1921
Died: February 8
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Moscow
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Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.
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Educated men - civilized, as Fourier used to say with disdain - tremble at the idea that society might some day be without judges, police, or gaolers.
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Vladimir Ilyich [Lenin], your concrete actions are completely unworthy of the ideas you pretend to hold.
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