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s printed separately as a pamphlet in 1892.) We quote below his numerous smaller writings in the editions which we possess, without vouching for the chronological order or completeness of the list. _Les Paroles d'un Revolte_, 1885; _Revolutionary Governments_ (trans. from German to French, Anarchist Library, vol. i.); _Un Siecle d'Attente_, 1789-1889, Paris, 1893; _La Grande Revolution_, Paris, 1893; _Les Temps Nouveaux_ (conference at London), Paris, 1894; _Jeunes Gens_, 4th ed., Paris, '93; _La Loi et l'Autorite_, 6th ed., Paris, '92; _Les Prisons_, 2d ed., Paris, '90; _L'Anarchie dans l'Evolution Socialiste_, 2d ed., Paris, '92; _Esprit de Revolte_, Paris, '92, 5th ed.; _le Salariat_, 2d ed., Paris, '92; _La Morale Anarchiste_, 1890; "Anarchist Communion: its Basis and Principles" (republished by permission of the editor of the _Nineteenth Century_), London, 1887. For Kropotkin Anarchy consists in (1) the liberation of the producer from the yoke of capital, in production in common, and the free enjoyment of all products of common work; (2) in freedom from any yoke of government, in the free development of individuals in groups, of groups in federations, in free organisation rising from the simple to the complex according to men's needs and mutual endeavours; and (3) in liberation from religious morality, and a free morality without duty or sanctions proceeding and becoming customary from the life of the community itself.[4] [4] _L'Anarchie_, p. 26. The postulate of the abolition of the authority of the State is the well-known, old stock proposal of the Anarchists. But it is noticeable that Kropotkin attacks the State among other things, because it does not carry out the maxim of _laisser faire_ so often imposed upon it by another party. Kropotkin thinks that the State acts rather on the principle of _not laisser faire_, and is always intervening in favour of the exploiter as against the exploited (_Les Temps Nouveaux_, p. 46). The State is accordingly a purely civic idea (_l'idee bourgeoise_), utterly rotten and decaying, only held together by the plague of laws. All law and dominion, including parliamentary government, must therefore be put aside, and be replaced by the "system of no government" and free arrangement (_la libre entente_). Kropotkin sees everywhere already, even at present in public, and especially in economic life, germs of thi
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