"It is not difficult, indeed, to see the absurdity of naming a few men and saying to them, "Make laws regulating all our spheres of activity, althoug… - Pyotr Kropotkin

Should an authoritarian Socialist society ever succeed in establishing itself, it could not last; general discontent would soon force it to break up, or to reorganize itself on principles of liberty.

"Nous savons que si l'ingénieur, le savant, le docteur sont payés aujourd'hui dix ou cent fois plus que le travailleur, ce n'est oas en raison des "frais de production" de ces messieurs. C'est en raison d'un monopole d'éducation. L'ingénieur, le savant et le docteur exploitent tout bonnement un capital - leur brevet - tout comme le bourgeois exploite une usine, ou le noble exploitant ses titres de naissance. Le grade universitaire a remplacé l'acte de naissance du noble de l'ancien régime."

Acknowledging, as a fact, the equal rights of all its members to the treasures accumulated in the past, it no longer recognizes a division between exploited and exploiters, governed and governors, dominated and dominators, and it seeks to establish a certain harmonious compatibility in its midst-not by subjecting all its members to an -authority that is fictitiously supposed to represent society, not by trying to establish uniformity, but by urging all men to develop free initiative, free action, free association. It seeks the most complete development of individuality combined with the highest development of voluntary association in all its aspects, in all possible degrees, for all imaginable aims; ever changing, ever modified associations which carry in themselves the elements of their durability and constantly assume new forms, which answer best to the multiple aspirations of all.