Kropotkin's Revolutionary Pamphlets - Libcom

%50 KROPOTKIN'S REVOLUTIONARY PAMPHLETS
:Bismarck. It is a compromise made in advance between the
socialistic aspirations of the masses and the desires of the
middle class. They would, indeed, wish the expropriation to
be complete, but they have not the courage to attempt it;
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so they put It off to the next century. and before the battle
they enter into negotiation with the enemy.
NOTE FOR. "THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND THE
SOVIET GOVER.NMENT"
Kropotkin's attitude to the Soviet Government in relation
to the Russian revolution was voiced only in letters to friends
and in two public statements, which are printed here, with
slight omissions of unimportant parts. The Letter to the
Workers of Western Europe, written early in 1919, and sent
to Georg Brandes, the great Danish critic, while military communism
was still in effect, deals in part with aspects still
essentially unchanged.
It was written for the British Labour
Mission of 1920 and is included in their report.
The memorandum dated just a few months before his
death in 1921 deals with the revolution in much more general
terms.
It was not completed, and should not be regarded
as his full thought on the question that prompted it,­
What to do? It was written in response to repeated appeals
by his family and friends for his view of what should be done
by anarchists in Russia.