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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 3h
— Autumn societies
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 6h
In short, the system of non-interference — the <em>laissez faire</em> — has never been applied for one single hour by any government
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 9h
Now, how could he find men willing to cross the sea, to travel to China and back, to endure hardship and slavish toil and to risk their lives for a miserable pittance
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 12h
Strictly speaking the creators of the goods exported from Britain to all the ends of the earth comprise only from six to seven million workers
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 15h
All is interdependent in a civilized society; it is impossible to reform any one thing without altering the whole
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 18h
Consequently, we do not possess as yet a philosophy constructed in both its parts — natural sciences and sociology — with the aid of the same scientific method
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 21h
No more of such vague formulas as “The right to work,” or “To each the whole result of his labour
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 07/10/2026
Better conditions are created by the elimination of competition by means of mutual aid and mutual support
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 07/10/2026
) Their code of morality is both varied and severe
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 07/10/2026
Even the chief dates of the great assaults upon the peasant lands are the same
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 07/10/2026
But this impotence is becoming evident to all; the faults of parliamentarianism, and the inherent vices of the representative principle, are self-evident, and the few thinkers who have made a critical study of them (J
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 07/10/2026
But consider the difference
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 06/10/2026
” The individual thus requested never refuses; it sets apart its mandibles, takes a proper position, and regurgitates a drop of transparent fluid which is licked up by the hungry ant
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 06/10/2026
With little success, it must be said; because contests and technical difficulties which were arranged for centuries in succession by agreement between closely-interdependent guilds and federated cities lay entirely beyond the powers of the centralized State
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 06/10/2026
Assuredly this is not how great fortunes are made
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 06/10/2026
It is well known, in fact, that wolves gather in packs for hunting, and Tschudi left an excellent description of how they draw up in a half-circle, surround a cow which is grazing on a mountain slope, and then, suddenly appearing with a loud barking, make it roll in the abyss
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 06/10/2026
In the domain of philosophy of law, in the theory of morality, in political economy, in history, (both of nations and institutions), Anarchism has already shown that it will not content itself with metaphysical conclusions, but will seek, in every case a natural-scientific basis
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 06/10/2026
At a time when men were dwelling in caves, or under occasionally protruding rocks, in company with mammals now extinct, and hardly succeeded in making the roughest sorts of flint hatchets, they already knew the advantages of life in societies
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 06/10/2026
All newspaper correspondents, during the great strike of miners in Yorkshire in 1894, knew heaps of such facts, although not all of them could report such “irrelevant” matters to their respective papers
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 05/10/2026
[29] In Spain the swallow is met with in company with kestrels, fly-catchers, and even pigeons
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 05/10/2026
Wealth undoubtedly did accumulate in this way, and power always follows wealth
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 05/10/2026
But such ideas are not to the taste of the ruling classes, and they have elaborated a whole system of pseudo-science to teach the contrary
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 05/10/2026
The savages, as a rule, do not “multiply without stint,” as some English writers put it
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 05/10/2026
They have pottery, and know barter-trade — the custom being that the merchant gives them the goods, whereupon they return to their houses and bring the native goods required by the merchant; if the latter cannot be obtained, the European goods are returned
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 05/10/2026
— The Creative Ingenuity of the People
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 04/10/2026
[194] “Each one of the men of the commune will be faithful to his conjuror, and will give him aid and advice, according to what justice will dictate him” — the Amiens and Abbeville charters say
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 04/10/2026
” — The Government’s Inculcation of the same view of “Man’s Radical Perversity
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 04/10/2026
When the clan organization, assailed as it was from within by the separate family, and from without by the dismemberment of the migrating clans and the necessity of taking in strangers of different descent — the village community, based upon a territorial conception, came into existence
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 04/10/2026
narchism, like Socialism in general, and like every other social movement, has not, of course, developed out of science or out of some philosophical school
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 04/10/2026
“I fully recognized,” she wrote, “that I should be pleased longer to travel among them
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 04/10/2026
They choose a place in the forest to stay there, and thence they start every morning for their hunting expeditions
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 04/10/2026
) are made by whole communes, and that land is rented and meadows are mown by whole communes — the work being accomplished by old and young, men and women, in the way described by Tolstoi — is only what one may expect from people living under the village-community system
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 03/10/2026
“They are mild-tempered birds, and very rarely quarrel” — we are told — although they are well provided with formidable weapons
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 03/10/2026
It prevailed in England during both the Saxon and Norman times, and partially survived till the last century;[116] it was at the bottom of the social organization of old Scotland, old Ireland, and old Wales
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 03/10/2026
The methods of rational cultivation are known
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 03/10/2026
It was not until 1884 that associations of more than nineteen persons were permitted in France, and I need not say that when this “dangerous experiment” was ventured upon — so it was styled in the Chambers — all due “precautions” which functionaries can invent were taken
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 03/10/2026
But each corporation contributed its part of stone, work, and decorative genius to their common monument
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 03/10/2026
But the thoughtful reader inevitably comes to them on reading their works
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 03/10/2026
And amongst these little insects it is the duty of the satisfied ant to disgorge the honey that her hungry friends may also be satisfied
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 02/10/2026
The feeling of solidarity is the leading characteristic of all animals living in society
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 02/10/2026
I must mention, however, before leaving the Southern Hemisphere, that even the Fuegians, whose reputation has been so bad, appear under a much better light since they begin to be better known
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 02/10/2026
Couës, saw, for instance, the little cliff-swallows nesting in the immediate neighbourhood of the prairie falcon (Falco polyargus)
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 02/10/2026
We have already spoken of the religious explanation
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 02/10/2026
But every experienced politician knows that all great political movements were fought upon large and often distant issues, and that those of them were the strongest which provoked most disinterested enthusiasm
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 02/10/2026
The Dayaks usually have but one wife, and treat her well
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 01/10/2026
The rivers have been made navigable; the coasts, carefully surveyed, are easy of access; artificial harbours, laboriously dug out and protected against the fury of the sea, afford shelter to the ships
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 01/10/2026
In his introduction to The Story of Burnt Njal, George Dasent very justly sums up as follows the qualities of a Northman, as they appear in the sagas: — To do what lay before him openly and like a man, without fear of either foes, fiends, or fate;
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 01/10/2026
[159] And yet, the more we penetrate into the life of those times, the sixth and seventh centuries of our era, the more we see that another element, besides wealth and military force, was required to constitute the authority of the few
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 01/10/2026
The habit of singing in concert, which exists in several species of birds, belongs to the same category of social instincts
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Peter Krobotkin @peterkrobotkin.piusbird.space · 01/10/2026
All is interdependent in a civilized society; it is impossible to reform any one thing without altering the whole
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