“It is absolutely incomprehensible to us that intelligent men — and such are not wanting in the collectivist party — can remain partisans of national or municipal parliaments after all the lessons history has given them — in France, in England, in Germany, or in the United States.”

—  Peter Kropotkin , book The Conquest of Bread

Source: The Conquest of Bread (1892), Ch. 13 : The Collectivist Wages System

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