The Transformation of Luxury After the Revolution According to Cropotkin

Cropotkin writes that so long as men consider fustian and manual labor as a mark of inferiority, it will appear amazing to them to see an author setting up his own book and type. In this sense, art, literature, writing and broadly become liberated from the shackles of capitalism that profit has placed upon it. Letters and science will only take their proper place in the work of human development when freed from all mercenary bondage. They will be exclusively cultivated by those who love them and for those that love them. And so the transformation of luxury that occurs after the revolution according to Cropotkin is an opening up of art, literature and luxury to the masses.