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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution, by Pierre Kropotkin This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution An Address Delivered in Paris Author: Pierre Kropotkin Translator: Henry Glasse Release Date: January 27, 2010 [EBook #31104] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ANARCHISM IN SOCIALISTIC EVOLUTION *** Produced by Fritz Ohrenschall, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) New Edition (enlarged) TWO PENCE The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution An Address delivered in Paris BY PIERRE KROPOTKIN Translated by HENRY GLASSE AN APPEAL TO THE YOUNG By Pierre Kropotkin PRICE - - - 2d. WILLIAM REEVES 83 CHARING CROSS ROAD, BOOKSELLER LIMITED. --LONDON, W.C.2.-- THE PLACE OF ANARCHISM IN SOCIALISTIC EVOLUTION PART I. You must often have asked yourselves what is the cause of Anarchism, and why, since there are already so many Socialist schools, it is necessary to found an additional one--that of Anarchism. In order to answer this question I will go back to the close of last century. You all know the characteristics which marked that epoch: there was an expansion of intelligence, a prodigious development of the natural sciences, a pitiless examination of accepted prejudices, the formation of a theory of Nature based on a truly scientific foundation, observation and reasoning. In addition to these there was criticism of the political institutions bequeathed to Humanity by preceding ages, and a movement towards that ideal of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity which has in all times been the ideal of the popular masses. Fettered in its free development by despotism and by the narrow selfishness of the privileged classes, this movement, being at the same time favoured by an explosion of popular indignation, engendered the Great Revolution which had to force its way through the midst of a thousan
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