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"The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin

Red Menace

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The Division of Labor - A Critical Analysis

Kropakian sees the division of labor as essentially producing a boring and monotonous form of labor. He argues that it creates laziness and primarily exists to increase profit. And he gets at this absurdity when he writes that quote, you were born to sharpening pins when Pasteur was born to invent the inoculation against anthrax. The revolution will leave you both to your respective enjoyments.

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