As to other countries, revolution would break out everywhere, but revolution under divers aspects; in one country state socialism, in another federat… - Pyotr Kropotkin

In our civilized societies we are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even to the best-paid workman, this uncertainty for the morrow, in the midst of all the wealth inherited from the past, and in spite of the powerful means of production, which could ensure comfort to all, in return for a few hours of daily toil?
The socialists have said it and repeated it unwearyingly. Daily they reiterate it, demonstrating it by arguments taken from all the sciences. It is because all that is necessary for production — the land, the mines, the highways, machinery, food, shelter, education, knowledge — all have been seized by the few in the course of that long story of robbery, enforced migration and wars, of ignorance and oppression, which has been the life of the human race before it had learned to subdue the forces of Nature. It is because, taking advantage of alleged rights acquired in the past, these few appropriate today two-thirds of the products of human labour, and then squander them in the most stupid and shameful way. It is because, having reduced the masses to a point at which they have not the means of subsistence for a month, or even for a week in advance, the few can allow the many to work, only on the condition of themselves receiving the lion’s share. It is because these few prevent the remainder of men from producing the things they need, and force them to produce, not the necessaries of life for all, but whatever offers the greatest profits to the monopolists. In this is the substance of all socialism.

"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."

We do not want to rob any one of his coat, but we wish to give to the workers all those things the lack of which makes them fall an easy prey to the exploiter, and we will do our utmost that none shall lack aught, that not a single man shall be forced to sell the strength of his right arm to obtain a bare subsistence for himself and his babes.